The Politics of Public Sector Performance

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.

Auteur

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

Contenu

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