Download or read book Collected Seminar Papers on Bureaucratic Change in New States October 1969 March 1970 written by University of London. Institute of Commonwealth Studies and published by 27 Russell SQ. W.C. University of London (Institute of Commo. This book was released on 1971 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development written by Richard M. Valelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how) they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance? Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.
Download or read book Patchwork Leviathan written by Erin Metz McDonnell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity. McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness. Patchwork Leviathan offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail—and how they can do better.
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Download or read book Collected Seminar Papers on Changing Economic Links in the Commonwealth in the 1970 s October 1970 March 1971 written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Seminar Papers on the Dominions Between the Wars October 1970 March 1971 written by University of London. Institute of Commonwealth Studies and published by London : University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies. This book was released on 1972 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collected Seminar Papers on the Politics of Separatism October 1974 June 1975 written by University of London. Institute of Commonwealth Studies and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Seminar Papers on the Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries written by University of London. Institute of Commonwealth Studies and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collected Seminar Papers on Politics Within Bureaucracies January June 1979 written by University of London. Institute of Commonwealth Studies and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of the Melville J Herskovits Library of African Studies Northwestern University Library Evanston Illinois and Africana in Selected Libraries written by Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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