The Politics of Public Sector Performance: Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138956392
• ISBN13: 9781138956391
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"