LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
Tables
2.1 Types of Governing Associations
2.2 Types of Formal Local (i.e., Subnational) Governments
3.1 Municipal Amalgamations in Western Europe, 1950–2010
3.2 Examples of Two-Tiered Nested Subnational Governments
3.3 Examples of Three-Tiered Nested Subnational Governments
3.4 Examples of Four-Tiered Nested Subnational Governments
3.5 Examples of Multitiered Subnational Governments in Asia (UNESCAP)
5.1 Characterizing States I: Unitary-Federal and Centralized-Decentralized Dimensions (Examples)
5.2 Characterizing States II: Executive Government and (De)centralized Dimensions
5.3 Examples and Characteristics of Unitary and Federal Political Systems
5.4 Parliamentary, Presidential, and Hybrid Democracies
5.5 Six Types of Political Systems according to Aristotle
6.1 Hofstede's Characterization of Cultures
6.2 Perception about and Reality of Government
6.3 Conceptions of Political Authority
6.4 Stereotypes and Reality about Politics and Elected Officials
6.5 Stereotypes about and Reality of Citizens
8.1 The Corruption Perception Indexes 2012
8.3 Public Sector Personnel Size in the European Union: Absolute Numbers (1998)
8.5 The Development of Human Resource Management in the Developed World
A2.1 Traditional, Behavioral, and Postbehavioral Approaches to Politics
Figures
2.1 A Model of Political Evolution from a Bottom-Up Perspective
3.1 Size of Empires 3000 BCE-2000 CE
3.2 Simplified Diagrams of Local Government Units
5.1 The Structure of the Government of Israel and the Prime Minister Office
5.2 The Israeli Ministry of Welfare and Social Services
5.3 The Structure of the North District of Welfare and Social Services
A1.1 Development of Systematic Comparative Research in Public Administration