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.
Why do these pockets exist? How do they emerge and survive in hostile environments? And do they...
It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctio...
