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This work looks not so much at the obstacles to reform as the ways to get around them through imaginative management. The proper setting of an agenda for action, the process of making intelligent decisions and the implementation of reform are all analyzed in depth. Foreign Affairs An essential work of reference for researchers investigating contemporary socio-political change in the Latin American countryside. Development and Change

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Explaining Choice and Change
Chapter 2. Linking Theory and Practice
Chapter 3. Generalizing about Developing Country Policy Environments
Chapter 4. Settling Agendas: Circumstance, Process, and Reform
Chapter 5. Making Decisions: The Concerns of Policy Elites
Chapter 6. Implementing Reform: Arenas, Stakes, and Resources
Chapter 7. Reforming Policies in the 1980s: Changing Circumstances and Shifting Parameters
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Finding Room to Maneuver
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Public Choices and Policy Change

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/05/1991
      ISBN13: 9780801841569, 978-0801841569
      ISBN10: 0801841569

      Description

      Book Synopsis

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      Trade Review
      This work looks not so much at the obstacles to reform as the ways to get around them through imaginative management. The proper setting of an agenda for action, the process of making intelligent decisions and the implementation of reform are all analyzed in depth. Foreign Affairs An essential work of reference for researchers investigating contemporary socio-political change in the Latin American countryside. Development and Change

      Table of Contents

      List of Tables and Figures
      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Chapter 1. Introduction: Explaining Choice and Change
      Chapter 2. Linking Theory and Practice
      Chapter 3. Generalizing about Developing Country Policy Environments
      Chapter 4. Settling Agendas: Circumstance, Process, and Reform
      Chapter 5. Making Decisions: The Concerns of Policy Elites
      Chapter 6. Implementing Reform: Arenas, Stakes, and Resources
      Chapter 7. Reforming Policies in the 1980s: Changing Circumstances and Shifting Parameters
      Chapter 8. Conclusion: Finding Room to Maneuver
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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