Carl Dahlstrom

Organizing Leviathan (eBook, ePUB)

Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good Government

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government worldwide, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316827772
• Artikelnr.: 49272167

Autorenporträt

Carl Dahlström is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden, and Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute. His research is concerned with comparative and historical perspectives on public administration, administrative reforms and welfare state policymaking.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why relations between politicians and bureaucrats matter
2. Theory
3. A closed Weberian bureaucracy
4. Corruption
5. Effectiveness
6. Reforms
7. Conclusions.