The Politics of Public Sector Performance

Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries
Herausgeber: Roll, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or 'pockets of effectiveness' in developing countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781138956391
• ISBN-10: 1138956392
• Artikelnr.: 42955354

Autorenporträt

Michael Roll is a University Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Michael Roll 2. Pockets of effectiveness: review and
analytical framework Michael Roll 3. Pockets of effectiveness: lessons from
the long twentieth century in China and Taiwan Julia C. Strauss 4. An
enduring pocket of effectiveness: the case of the National Development Bank
of Brazil (BNDE) Eliza J. Willis 5. Turning Nigeria's drug sector around:
the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)
A. Irene Pogoson and Michael Roll 6. Taming the menace of human
trafficking: Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in
Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) Antonia T. Simbine with Franca
C. Attoh and Abubakar Oladeji 7. 'Confidence in our own abilities':
Suriname's State Oil Company as a pocket of effectiveness Wil Hout 8.
Defying the resource curse: explaining successful state-owned enterprises
in rentier states Steffen Hertog 9. Comparative analysis: deciphering
pockets of effectiveness Michael Roll