Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States

Author:   Erin Metz McDonnell
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691197357


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States


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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 thrive amid general institutional weakness and succe

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Author:   Erin Metz McDonnell
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691197357


ISBN 10:   0691197350
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 March 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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an excellent and refreshingly new look at state capacity that should be a must read for scholars of political sociology, development sociology, comparative politics, public policy, and good governance in less developed countries. ---Peter Ward, American Journal of Sociology


"""Winner of the EGOS Book Award, European Group for Organizational Studies"" ""An excellent and refreshingly new look at state capacity that should be a must read for scholars of political sociology, development sociology, comparative politics, public policy, and good governance in less developed countries. ""---Peter Ward, American Journal of Sociology"


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Erin Metz McDonnell is Kellogg Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Her award-winning work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and Comparative Political Studies.

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