Sunday, March 16, 2014
Committee (Omni Shoreham)
The Netherlands stands near the top of surveys when it comes to public integrity. The assumption can be that Weberian rationalism took solid and perhaps early root in this country. Judging however by the interactions between government and society in the Dutch Republic and the later Kingdom of the Netherlands, this was not necessarily the case. Other constructions of the state, which often took account of local privileges and later religious subcultures, created a situation where what we now term corruption was reduced to manageable proportions.
