This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels,...

Introduction -- Public sector reform: Modernization, paradigms and patterns -- Economic foundations of public sector reform -- An economic theory of leadership -- The contribution of economists to policy leadership and public sector reform -- The role of leadership development in public sector...