Reforming the State : : Managerial Public Administration in Latin America / / ed. by Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Peter Spink.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bresser Pereira, Luiz Carlos,; Glade, William,; Henrique Cardoso, Fernando,; Kettl, Donald F.,; Prats i Català, Joan,; Przeworski, Adam,; Spink, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Bresser Pereira, Luiz Carlos,; Spink, Peter ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

Neoconservative proposals for a minimal state notwithstanding, it has become increasingly clear in Latin America (and elsewhere) that the state must in fact be strengthened and the civil service reformed. This book contributes to the debate about the optimum role of the state, advancing the managerial approach to improving state capacity as far more effective than the bureaucratic perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Managerial Public Administration: Strategy and Structure for a New State -- 2 On the Design of the State: A Principal-Agent Perspective -- 3 The Global Revolution: Reforming Government-Sector Management -- 4 The Complementarity of Economic Restructuring and Rebuilding the State in Latin America -- 5 Possibilities and Political Imperatives: Seventy Years of Administrative Reform in Latin America -- 6 From Bureaucratic to Managerial Public Administration in Brazil -- 7 Democratic Governability in Latin America at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book