Patchwork leviathan : pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness in developing states /

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Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries, however some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McDonnell, Erin Metz (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Public administration > Developing countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Public administration.
Developing countries.
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis.
Embedded Autonomy.
Evans.
How Solidarity Works for Welfare.
Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa.
Jeffrey Herbst.
Lauren MacLean.
Locked in Place.
Markets and States in Tropical Africa.
NGOs.
New Deal.
Nicolas van de Walle.
Nitsan Chorev.
Prerna Singh.
Robert H. Bates.
States and Power in Africa.
Transnational Origins of Local Production.
Vivek Chibber.
World Bank.
bureaucracies.
developing world.
development.
international development.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : patchwork leviathans
  • Recruitment : clustering distinctiveness
  • Cultivation : clustered distinctiveness, interstitial experience, and the lived foundations of bureaucratic ethos
  • Protection : coping with remaking disruptive environments
  • Introducing comparison cases : patchwork leviathans in comparative and historical perspective
  • Beyond autonomy : elite attention and pathways to shelter from neopatrimonial influence
  • Dual habitus and founding cadres : the sociological foundations of how discretion is oriented to organized achievement
  • Long-term outcomes in pockets of effectiveness.

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