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Organizing Leviathan : politicians, bureaucrats and the making of good government / Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente.
Author
Dahlström, Carl
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JF1501 .D35 2017
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Bureaucracy
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Evaluation
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Administrative agencies
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Evaluation
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Executive departments
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Civil service
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Government executives
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Government accountability
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Political corruption
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Comparative government
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Lapuente Gine, Victor, 1976-
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Summary note
"Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government across the globe, this book argues that the organization of bureaucracy is an often overlooked but critical factor. Countries where merit-recruited employees occupy public bureaucracies perform better than those where public employees owe their post to political connections. The book provides a coherent theory of why, and ample evidence showing that meritocratic bureaucracies are conducive to lower levels of corruption, higher government effectiveness, and more flexibility to adopt modernizing reforms. Data comes from both a novel dataset on the bureaucratic structures of over 100 countries as well as from narratives of particular countries, with a special focus on the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats in Spain and Sweden. A notable contribution to the literature in comparative politics and public policy on good governance, and to corruption studies more widely"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-241) and index.
Contents
1. Why relations between politicians and bureaucrats matter; 2. Theory; 3. A closed Weberian bureaucracy; 4. Corruption; 5. Effectiveness; 6. Reforms; 7. Conclusions.
ISBN
9781107177598 ((hardcover))
1107177596 ((hardcover))
9781316630655 ((paperback))
131663065X ((paperback))
LCCN
2017000019
OCLC
983799134
Other standard number
40027311439
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