Edward C. Page is Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, having previously held positions at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Hull. He is the co-editor, with Steven J. Balla and Martin Lodge, of The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration (OUP 2015) and author of Policy Without Politicians: Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective (OUP 2012).

• 1: Introduction 2: Patrimonialism and ninth-century government 3: Twelfth-century feudal officialdom 4: Growing intensity in the fifteenth century 5: Absolutism, bureaucracy, and eighteenth-century fiscal-military states 6: Constitutional officialdom: The 1950s and after 7: Weber's scorecard 8: If not Weber, then what?

Edward C. Page is Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, having previously held positions at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Hull. He is the co-editor, with Steven J. Balla and Martin Lodge, of The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration (OUP 2015) and author of Policy Without Politicians: Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective (OUP 2012).

• 1: Introduction 2: Patrimonialism and ninth-century government 3: Twelfth-century feudal officialdom 4: Growing intensity in the fifteenth century 5: Absolutism, bureaucracy, and eighteenth-century fiscal-military states 6: Constitutional officialdom: The 1950s and after 7: Weber's scorecard 8: If not Weber, then what?