Excerpt from Bureaucracy, Aristocracy, and Autocracy Introduction Cbapter One The Emergence of Dynastic Absolutism Two The Rise of Public Law and the Old Official Hierarchy Three The Composition of the New Bureaucratic Elite 57 Four The Alliance between the Merit and the Spoils System Five Discipline and Loyalty: Incentives, Rewards, and Penalties Inter and Intraservice Relations and the Reorganization of the Old Hierarchy Seven The Formation and Transformation of the.