The Politics of Public Sector Performance

Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-64361-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

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.

Why do these pockets exist? How do they emerge and survive in hostile environments? And do they have the potential to trigger more comprehensive reforms and state-building? This book provides surprising answers to these questions, based on detailed case studies of exceptional public organizations and state-owned enterprises in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. The case studies are guided by a common analytical framework that is process-oriented and sensitive to the role of politics. The concluding comparative analysis develops a novel explanation for why some public organizations in the developing world beat the odds and turn into pockets of public sector performance and service delivery while most do not.

This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, development, organizations, public administration, public policy and management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roll, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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