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Book Synopsis
Explores the ways in which political actors deal with the contradictory pressures and asks the question: when will leaders support reforms that increase state capacity and that establish a more meritocratic and technically competent bureaucracy?

Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. The State
2. Reform as a Collective Good: Political Entrepreneurs and Democratic Politics
3. Insulation and the Struggle for Reform in Brazil, 1930-1964
4. Legislators and the Supply of Public Goods:
A Brazilian Example and a Model
5. A Test of the Game Theoretic Model:When Legislators Initiate Reforms
6. The Political Uses of Bureaucracy: Presidential Survival versus Administrative Competence
7. The Effects of Institutions
Appendix A: Assessment of Achievement for the Various Targets in the Target Plan
Appendix B: Creation of Appointment and Survival Strategy Indices
Appendix C: Variable Construction
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 26/09/1996
      ISBN13: 9780520207622, 978-0520207622
      ISBN10: 0520207629
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the ways in which political actors deal with the contradictory pressures and asks the question: when will leaders support reforms that increase state capacity and that establish a more meritocratic and technically competent bureaucracy?

      Table of Contents
      Figures and Tables
      Acknowledgments
      1. The State
      2. Reform as a Collective Good: Political Entrepreneurs and Democratic Politics
      3. Insulation and the Struggle for Reform in Brazil, 1930-1964
      4. Legislators and the Supply of Public Goods:
      A Brazilian Example and a Model
      5. A Test of the Game Theoretic Model:When Legislators Initiate Reforms
      6. The Political Uses of Bureaucracy: Presidential Survival versus Administrative Competence
      7. The Effects of Institutions
      Appendix A: Assessment of Achievement for the Various Targets in the Target Plan
      Appendix B: Creation of Appointment and Survival Strategy Indices
      Appendix C: Variable Construction
      Bibliography
      Index

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