"The Handbook of Bureaucracy, Second Edition" provides, via nearly sixty contributed articles, a thorough analysis of bureaucracies worldwide and their effect on politics and society. This volume begins by exploring the historical antecedents of bureaucracy, followed by a detailed review of the theoretical and conceptual perspectives on bureaucracies and bureaucratic politics. Following an examination of how bureaucracies, politics, and society interrelate, the book reviews bureaucratic politics in the Americas, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and Asia. It discusses ethics and accountability in bureaucratic organizations, then concludes with an overview of the bureaucratization process and its alternative, debureaucratizaton.