"This book answers "who matters" in a 32-year history (1980-2012) of policy change within the World Bank's public sector management and public sector governance agenda. The book is anchored within the public administration discipline and its understanding of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics,...

Observing the refraction of law -- Refraction in regulatory space and legal pluralism -- Tensions and the non-autonomous state -- Electricity-role of the state, political economy, and regulatory reform -- Andhra Pradesh-a state "susceptible" to a powerful society -- The state as a...