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Burocracia, democracia e políticas públicas : arranjos institucionais de políticas de desenvolvimento
Pires, Roberto Rocha C.; Gomide, Alexandre de Ávila - 2014
Since the last decade, there has been much debate on the central government's activism in the implementation of development policies that resemble those from Brazil's authoritarian past. However, only rarely, scholars and practitioners have discussed the state capacities that are necessary to...
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When the victor cannot claim the spoils : institutional incentives for professionalizing patronage states
Schuster, Christian - 2016
Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
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Democracia, arenas decisórias e políticas públicas : o programa minha casa minha vida
Loureiro, Maria Rita; Macário, Vinicius; Guerra, Pedro - 2013
), examining them both from the point of view of democracy and its effectiveness to achieve its objectives. In other words, it aks …
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Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus : the role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy
Vaccaro, Andrea - 2023
attributes of democracy and state capacity-namely, civic participation and impartial bureaucracy-my study provides new evidence …The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in … conceptualization and measurement of democracy and state capacity. Drawing on this argument, my study takes an original approach to the …
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Water Keren En Combineren, Functiecombinaties Bij Waterkeringen (Water - Its Control and Combination, Multifunctionality and Flood Defences)
Heijden, Jurgen van der - 2014
English version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2435295' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2435295Dutch Abstract: de combinatie van weg en dijk bespaart kosten, en genereert tegelijkertijd nieuwe bronnen van inkomsten. Als gevolg hoeft de functie van waterkering geen extra risico...
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Roadmap to Gridlock : The Failure of Long-Range Metropolitan Transportation Planning
O'Toole, Randal - 2009
Federal law requires metropolitan planning organizations in urban areas of more than 50,000 people to write long-range (20- to 30-year) metropolitan transportation plans and to revise or update those plans every 4 to 5 years. A review of plans for more than 75 of the nation's largest...
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Water - Its Control and Combination, Multifunctionality and Flood Defences
Heijden, Jurgen van der - 2014
Dutch version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2435297 The combination of road and dike can save costs and, at the same time, generate new sources of revenue. The damming function of the dike does not need to be compromised as a result; in the Netherlands and elsewhere...
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Improving the business climate in Russia
Radziwill, Artur; Vaziakova, Yana - 2015
Economic growth is below what would be needed to resume rapid convergence to average OECD living standards. On-going efforts to improve the business climate are laudable, but need to be widened and strengthened. Much progress has been achieved in reducing red tape, but it is only recently that...
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Analysis of Privatization Process in Azerbaijan
Alirzayev, Elvin - 2013
Bağımsızlıklarını kazanır kazanmaz Postsovyet ülkeleri başta özelleştirme gelmekle reform çalışmalarına başladılar. Dünya özelleştirme pratiğinin bu ülkelere böyle geç gelmesinin tek sebebi, devlet mülkiyetinin ağırlık kazandığı planlı ekonominin hakim...
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Cartas abiertas a dos amigos, un economista austriaco y uno socialista (Two Open Letters to Friends, an Austrian Economist and a Socialist)
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - 2019
Spanish Abstract: Dirijo estas cartas dos amigos imaginarios. En la primera, a un libertario de libre mercado, reconozco las fortalezas de su posición, pero argumento que la posición libertaria básica se debe actualizar a la luz de los desarrollos del mundo financiero y corporativo, y de la...
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