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Patchwork Leviathan - Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States (Hardcover)
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Patchwork Leviathan - Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States (Hardcover)
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Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public
servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these
states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the
rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly
effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general
institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing
on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz
McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a
wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact
patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the
semblance of unity. McDonnell demonstrates that when the human,
cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is
critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce
bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding
little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of
resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be
transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to
emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness. Patchwork Leviathan offers a
comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally
challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana
and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in
the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of
pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains
how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western
bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is
based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global
capacity-building reforms fail-and how they can do better.
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