Runaway state-building
Subtitle: patronage politics and democratic development
By: Conor O'Dwyer.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: New democracies; Democratization; Bureaucracy; Patronage, Political; Nation-building; Poland -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Czech Republic -- Politics and government -- 1993-; Slovakia -- Politics and government -- 1993-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The concept and causes of runaway state-building; title: Constraining government patronage : different logics of party competition; title: The runaway state-building phenomenon : patronage politics and bureaucratic rationalization; title: Remaking the regions : the Europeanization of the state or domestic politics as usual?; title: Local control : local parties and local state administrations; title: A runaway welfare state? : extending the argument to post-communist welfare politics; title: Exporting the argument : party competition and state effectiveness in the new democracies of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the rest of Eastern Europe.