Good Government in the Tropics

Name: Good Government in the Tropics
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ISBN: 9780801860928

ISBN-10: 080186092X

ISBN-13: 9780801860928

Edition: 1997

Authors: Judith Tendler

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In Good Government in the Tropics, Judith Tendler questions widely prevailing views about why governments so often perform poorly and about what causes them to improve. Drawing on a set of four cases involving public bureaucracies at work under the direction of an innovative state government in Brazil, the book offers findings of significance to the current debates about organization of the public-sector workplace, public service delivery, decentralization, and the interaction between government and civil society. The case chapters represent four different sectors, each traditionally spoken for by its distinct experts, literatures, and public agnecies -- rural preventive health, small…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.13" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Preventive Health: The Case of the Unskilled Meritocracy



The Emergency Employment Program and Its Unlikely Heroes



Frontline Workers and Agricultural Productivity



Small Firms and Large Buyers: Demand-Driven Public Procurement



Civil Servants and Civil Society, Governments Central and Local


Notes


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Index