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Armed Forces in Western Europe: Uniformity and Diversity*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Morris Janowitz
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The professional armed forces of Western European nation-states developed out of feudal forms through a process of “institutional differentiation”. By “institutional differentiation” is meant the bureaucratic transformation by which the armed forces emerged as a distinct organization fashioned by its own system of recruitment and training, by the accumulation of significant amounts of its own resources, and operating in terms of its specialized format and calculus.

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Armed Forces and Society in Western Europe
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 1965 , pp. 225 - 237
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1965

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