Description
| Product ID: | 9781107177598 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Organizing Leviathan |
| Subtitle: | Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good Government |
| Authors: | Author: Carl Dahlstrom, Victor Lapuente |
| Page Count: | 270 |
| Subjects: | Comparative politics, Comparative politics, Corruption in politics, government and society, Political corruption |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book for students of governance, public policy and public administration examines why some countries are less corrupt and better governed than others. It shows that good governance is the result of long-term cultural or economic trends, the degree of democracy, and how public bureaucracies are organized. Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government worldwide, this book argues that the organization of bureaucracy is an often overlooked but critical factor. Countries where merit-recruited employees occupy public bureaucracies perform better than those where public employees owe their post to political connections. The book provides a coherent theory of why, and ample evidence showing that meritocratic bureaucracies are conducive to lower levels of corruption, higher government effectiveness, and more flexibility to adopt modernizing reforms. Data comes from both a novel dataset on the bureaucratic structures of over 100 countries as well as from narratives of particular countries, with a special focus on the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats in Spain and Sweden. A notable contribution to the literature in comparative politics and public policy on good governance, and to corruption studies more widely. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-06-29 |
