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Rekindling governments from within: Getting public sector elite officials to support government reform in Brazil
Pinhanez, Monica - 2010
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,...
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The influence of local governance on agricultural advisory services in Tajikistan
Mandler, Andreas - 2010
The present article investigates the influence of local governance on agricultural advisory services in Tajikistan. The Central Asian Republic of Tajikistan is an agricultural country that has been described as a hybrid state, where local governance tends to be dominated by a few powerful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307579
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Estado, atores predominantes e coalizões para o desenvolvimento: Brasil e Argentina em perspectiva comparada
Gaitán, Flavio; Boschi, Renato Raul - 2015
-neoliberal) and the analysis of positions (statements, actions, exclusions) of strategic elites. …
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Economic and political liberalization, dependency and elite formation in contemporary Mozambique
Macuane, José Jaime - 2012
Discussion of development strategies in Mozambique reveals three main perspectives on the role of elites in the policy …. Based on this understanding, this paper analyses the role of elites in policy processes, focusing on elite formation and … that the dominant analyses of the role of the elites in the policy process in Mozambique overlook the process of elite …
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Who won the contest for a new property class? Structural transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four region
Drahokoupil, Jan - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 4, pp. 360-377
This paper analyses the transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four countries (namely the Czech Republic, Hungary …
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Projektbericht "Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland: Werte und Einstellungen"
Bunselmeyer, Elisabeth; Holland-Cunz, Marc; Dribbisch, … - 2013
sample. Furthermore, the report provides a first overview on the demographic composition of German elites. …
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Promiscuous elites and economic development
Brezis, Elise S. - 2012
This paper analyzes the interconnection between elites and its effects on economic growth. For decades, the … elites actually lead to lower economic growth. …
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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization
Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of geography on the transition process in authoritarian political regimes, and to investigate the nature of the links between political change, economic reforms and geographic location. A simple model of transition and democratization is...
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600937
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Destabilizing orders - Understanding the consequences of neoliberalism. Proceedings of the MaxPo Fifth-Anniversary Conference, Paris, January 12-13, 2018
Andersson, Jenny; Godechot, Olivier - 2018
, enlightened electorates, benevolent political elites, and problem-solving progressive alliances - seem inapt for understanding … financial and political elites who are paradoxically both disconnected from national territory and sometimes in direct alliance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853156