Author: Merilee S. Grindle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065182
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
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.
Jobs for the Boys
Author: Merilee S. Grindle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065182
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065182
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
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.
Jobs for the Boys
Author: Merilee Grindle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674065703
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674065703
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publications of the Children's Bureau
Author: United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Youth Employment Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Considers (88) S. 1.
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Considers (88) S. 1.
Youth Employment Act-Youth Conservation Corps
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Association Educational Work for Men and Boys
Author: Young Men's Christian Associations of North America. International Committee. Educational Department
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Educational Work of the Boy Scouts
Author: Lorne Webster Barclay
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Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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The Effect of Tropical Sunlight on the Development of Bones of Children in Puerto Rico
Author: Alice Channing
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Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Author: Mrs. Blanche Shinn Jobes Paget
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Category : Adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Category : Adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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