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Industrial Policy in PracticeRecent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors’ Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal...
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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. This draws heavily on Max Weber’s interpretation of western history...
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A New Institutionalist Analysis on Emerging DonorshipThis 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. South Korea’s knowledge sharing projects are the leading example of expansionary and...
Journal Article
Party System Institutionalization and Reliance on Personal Income Taxation in Developing CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
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A Review of Social Policy Implementation in Nigeria with Emphasis on EducationThis paper presents a brief history of social services provision in Nigeria with special reference to education. It argues that the problems of implementation of social policies are due to state monopolies; the negative effects of structural...
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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. Decentralization was emphasized, with the new leaders...
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Rekindling Governments from WithinThis 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. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies...
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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. Weber’s horizontal account of bureaucracy can be criticised...
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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? Or is it, on the...
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Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police ReformAfter its 14-year civil war, Liberia worked with multiple donors and partners to restore security. This paper explores the Liberia National Police’s innovative efforts to create a more gender-sensitive police service and describes the international...
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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. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms...
Book Chapter
Decentralization, Local Bureaucracies and Service Delivery in UgandaPart of Book Reforming Africa's Institutions
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Party system institutionalization and reliance on personal income taxThis paper explores the effect of party system institutionalization on the reliance of tax systems on the personal income tax. As a first step, the paper re-examines the relationship between party system institutionalization and taxation patterns...