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Party System Institutionalization and Reliance on Personal Income Taxation in Developing CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
Party system institutionalization Personal income tax BureaucracyWorking Paper
Party system institutionalization and reliance on personal income tax: Exploring the relationship using new dataThis paper explores the effect of party system institutionalization on the reliance of tax systems on the personal income tax...
Income tax Fiscal capacity BureaucracyWorking Paper
A New Institutionalist Analysis on Emerging Donorship: Explaining the Rise of the Knowledge Dimension in the South Korean Aid RegimeThis study aims to provide a neo-institutional explanation of why South Korea increasingly intends to share its developmental experience with the rest of the world...
Advertising Bureaucracy Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
Industrial Policy in Practice: Africa’s Presidential Investors’ Advisory CouncilsRecent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors...
Bureaucracy Economic assistance and foreign aid Industrial policyWorking Paper
Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in DevelopmentPublic sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures...
Bureaucracy Economic development Economic growthWorking Paper
Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Starting from Scratch? Improving Representation and ResponsivenessAfter its 14-year civil war, Liberia worked with multiple donors and partners to restore security...
Bureaucracy Crime Economic assistance and foreign aidBook Chapter
Rekindling Governments from Within: Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in BrazilFrom the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Bureaucracy Public administration Decision making (Public administration)
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Rekindling Governments from Within: Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in BrazilThis paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil’s state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s...
Bureaucracy Public administration Decision making (Public administration)Blog
The Ambiguity of Bureaucracy
by John Toye Is bureaucracy a vital institution that has to be built up by poor countries in pursuit of economic development?...
Bureaucracy Political scienceBook Chapter
Modern BureaucracyFrom the book: Institutional Change and Economic Development
Bureaucracy Sociology of economics Institutional economicsWorking Paper
Modern BureaucracyMax Weber believed that bureaucracy could be understood by analysing its ideal-typical characteristics, and that these characteristics would become more pervasive as the modern age advanced...
Bureaucracy Sociology of economics Institutional economicsBook Chapter
Bureaucratic Form and the Informal EconomyFrom the book: Linking the Formal and Informal Economy
Bureaucracy Democracy Informal sectorWorking Paper
Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal EconomyThe following essay has three parts. The first is a story about fluctuations in the balance of the relationship between impersonal and personal principles of social organization...
Bureaucracy Democracy Informal sectorBook Chapter
Decentralization, Local Bureaucracies and Service Delivery in UgandaFrom the book: Reforming Africa's Institutions
Bureaucracy Democratization Institutional economicsWorking Paper
Decentralization, Local Bureaucracies and Service Delivery in UgandaFollowing close to two decades of political distress and economic decline, Uganda embarked, in the mid 1980s, on far-reaching reforms under Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement...
Bureaucracy Democratization Institutional economics