Abstract
The Australian and Japanese bureaucratic systems are characterized by a number of differences. These differences are evident in the pattern of recruit ment. In the Japanese system, a close relationship exists between the level (measured in terms of success) of an organization and the standard of graduate intake. Furthermore, the relationship exists in the other direction, i.e. univer sities judge their own status by where their graduates go. Further, in Japan there is a strong nexus between private and public bureaucracies as parts of the same structural system.
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