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• Authors: Antonie Doležalová

Title variants

EN

The Story of a Bureaucrat in the inter-war Czechoslovakia

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This interdisciplinary study is based on historical and economic me-thods of research as well as on archive material and theories of bureau-cracy and rent-seeking. It focuses on functional analysis of state bureaucracy in the context of the political and socio-economic system of inter-war Czechoslovakia. The study formulates the main difficulty with the profession: the bu-reau¬cratisation of state administration during this period. The study demonstrates how bureaucracy leads to the formation of a specific social group connected by a social network and pursuing the same goal – to participate on redistribution of public resources and to increase the prestige of their department or agency. This interdisciplinary study is based on both: on one hand on historical and economic method of research and on other hand on archive material and theory of bureaucracy and theory of rent-seeking. The study is aimed on functional analyse of bureaucratic state in the frame of political and socio-economic system of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period.

Keywords

EN

bureaucracy; economic policy; Czechoslovakia 1918-1938

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hospodářské dějiny (Economic History)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 149-166

Contributors

author

Antonie Doležalová

• Katedra institucionální ekonomie NF VŠE, nám. W. Churchilla 4, 130 67 Praha 3, Czech Republic; Ústav hospodářských a sociálních dějin FF UK, Celetná 20, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic