Jobs for the Boys : Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective / Merilee S. Grindle.
Grindle, Merilee S., author.
2012
JF1651 .G75 2012
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Title Jobs for the Boys : Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective / Merilee S. Grindle.
Author Grindle, Merilee S., author.
ISBN 9780674065185
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065185
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (296 p.) : 2 charts, 1 graph, 8 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674065185 doi
Call Number JF1651 .G75 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 324.2/04
Summary Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in history and explores the political processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service systems. Such reforms are consistently resisted, she finds, because patronage systems, though capricious, offer political executives flexibility to achieve a wide variety of objectives. Grindle looks at the histories of public sector reform in six developed countries and compares them with contemporary struggles for reform in four Latin American countries. A historical, case-based approach allows her to take into account contextual differences between countries as well as to identify cycles that govern reform across the board. As a rule, she finds, transition to merit-based systems involves years and sometimes decades of conflict and compromise with supporters of patronage, as new systems of public service are politically constructed. Becoming aware of the limitations of public sector reform, Grindle hopes, will temper expectations for institutional change now being undertaken.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acronyms
INTRODUCTION
PART I. The Longue Durée
CHAPTER 1. A System for All Seasons
CHAPTER 2. Politics in the Construction of Reform
CHAPTER 3. Après Reform
PART II. A Contemporary Record
CHAPTER 4. Latin America
CHAPTER 5. Roots and Branches
CHAPTER 6. Crafting Reform
CHAPTER 7. Ambiguous Futures
CONCLUSION: The Politics of Institutional Creation and Re- creation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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