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

ISBN-13: 9780415643610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 276 str.

Michael Roll

Opis

The book is to provide an urgently needed corrective to the literature on state failure and governance in the developing world. While most literature is written from a focuses predominantly on state failure, corruption and other elements of 'bad governance', this book instead studies the phenomenon of 'Pockets of Effectiveness'. Pockets of Effectiveness are public organisations and state-owned enterprises which provide public goods and services relatively effectively in a hostile environment dominated by bad governance. The authors provide a first systematic and comparative study of these exceptional organisations in five developing regions: Africa, Asia, South America, the Middle East and the Caribbean and offer a political economy model for why and how Pockets of Effectiveness emerge, how they manage to persist and what their reform potential is. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, sociology, development, public administration and management.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Michael Roll  2. Pockets of effectiveness: review and analytical framework  Michael Roll  3. Pockets of effectiveness: lessons from the long twentieth century in China and Taiwan Julia C. Strauss  4. An enduring pocket of effectiveness: the case of the National Development Bank of Brazil (BNDE) Eliza J. Willis  5. Turning Nigeria’s drug sector around: the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) A. Irene Pogoson and Michael Roll  6. Taming the menace of human trafficking: Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) Antonia T. Simbine with Franca C. Attoh and Abubakar Oladeji  7. ‘Confidence in our own abilities’: Suriname’s State Oil Company as a pocket of effectiveness Wil Hout  8. Defying the resource curse: explaining successful state-owned enterprises in rentier states Steffen Hertog  9. Comparative analysis: deciphering pockets of effectiveness Michael Roll

O autorze

Michael Roll is a University Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA.