Patchwork Leviathan : : Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States / / Erin Metz McDonnell.
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...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 6 b/w illus. 4 tables. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: Patchwork Leviathans
- 2. Recruitment: Clustering Distinctiveness
- 3. Cultivation: Clustered Distinctiveness, Interstitial Experience, and the Lived Foundations of the Bureaucratic Ethos
- 4. Protection: Coping with and Remaking Disruptive Environments
- 5. Introducing Comparison Cases: Patchwork Leviathans in Comparative and Historical Perspective
- 6. Beyond Autonomy: Elite Attention and Pathways to Shelter from Neopatrimonial Influence
- 7. Dual Habitus and Founding Cadres: The Sociological Foundations of How Discretion Is Oriented to Organizational Achievement
- 8. Long-Term Outcomes in Pockets of Effectiveness
- Conclusion
- Methodological Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- A note on the type