This book addresses the broader questions of how both the content and the context of public policy affect its implementation. Through a series of case studies f
Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentrali
Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for
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