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Which one of the following types of bureaucracy is found in the colonial rule?

In Merle Fainsod’s typology of bureaucracies, colonial administration is characterized as a ‘Ruling bureaucracy’ in which the civil service itself constitutes the effective…

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Which one of the following types of bureaucracy is found in the colonial rule?

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In Merle Fainsod’s typology of bureaucracies, colonial administration is characterized as a ‘Ruling bureaucracy’ in which the civil service itself constitutes the effective governing elite exercising supreme political and administrative authority under nominal metropolitan oversight.

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