TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Dwyer,Conor
TI  - Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development
SN  - 9780801889219
AV  - JC423.O26 2006 
U1  - 320.9 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - New democracies
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Patronage, Political
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - Poland-Politics and government-1989-
KW  - Czech Republic-Politics and government-1993-
KW  - Slovakia-Politics and government-1993-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 The Concept and Causes of Runaway State-Building -- 2 Constraining Government Patronage: Different Logics of Party Competition -- 3 The Runaway State-Building Phenomenon: Patronage Politics and Bureaucratic Rationalization -- 4 Remaking the Regions: The Europeanization of the State or Domestic Politics as Usual? -- 5 Local Control: Local Parties and Local State Administrations -- 6 A Runaway Welfare State? Postcommunist Welfare Politics -- 7 Exporting the Argument: Party Competition and State Effectiveness in Other New Democracies -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- 1 Data on the Number of State Administrative Personnel -- 2 Data on Salaries -- 3 Interview Sample -- 4 Data Used to Calculate Party System Fractionalization -- 5 Countries Used in Cross-National Comparison -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - This timely study provides political scientists and political reformers with insights into points in the democratization process where appropriate intervention can minimize runaway state-building and cultivate efficient bureaucracy within a robust and competitive democratic system
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