The Emerald handbook of public administration in Latin America

While most scholarship on public administration in Latin America has taken an overtly legal approach, this handbook examines the subject from a political and public management perspective. In so doing, this handbook brings the study of public administration in Latin America more in line with studies...

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Other Authors Peters, B. Guy (Editor), Alba, Carlos Tercedor (Editor), Ramos, Conrado (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects
Public administration > Latin America.
Latin America > Politics and government.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839826788
9781839826764
DOI10.1108/9781839826764
Physical Description1 online resource (520 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Focus and book outline / Conrado Ramos and B. Guy Peters
  • Chapter 1. A brief story of Latin American public administration: a particular model? / Conrado Ramos and Alejandro Milanes
  • Section 1. Country chapters
  • Chapter 2. Public administration in Argentina: characterization and analysis of the political-institutional dynamic / Mercedes Iacoviello, Diego Pando, and Mercedes Llano
  • Chapter 3. Public administration in Brazil: the elusive state-eighty years attempting to build a professional and responsive public service / Francico Gaetani, Pedro Palotti, and Roberto Pires
  • Chapter 4. Modernizing the state to strengthen democracy: public sector reforms in Chile / Susan Alberts, Mireya Davila, and Arturo Valenzuela
  • Chapter 5. Colombia: Public administration in the midst of uncertainty / Maria Victoria Whittingham
  • Chapter 6. Costa Rican public administration: Neo-Weberian state, fragmentation and dilemmas / Violeta Palaviccini
  • Chapter 7. Mexico's public administration: huge problems, partial solutions / Maria del Carmen Pardo
  • Chapter 8. Paraguay: the supremacy of informality in public administration / Christian Schuster
  • Chapter 9. Public administration in Uruguay: modernization in slow motion / Conrado Ramos Larraburu, Alejandro Milanesi, and Diego Gonnet
  • Section 2. Cross country chapters
  • Chapter 10. The management of public personnel in Latin America: scope and limits of a modern professional service / Jose Luis Mendez
  • Chapter 11. Bureaucracy and politics / Juan Negri
  • Chapter 12. The center of government in Latin America / Martin Alessandro and Mariano Lafuente
  • Chapter 13. Digital public administration in Latin America. Digitalization, public innovation and the future of technologies in the public sector / J. Ignacio Criado
  • Chapter 14. The dilemmas of goverce in Latin America / Cristina Zurbriggen
  • Chapter 15. Good goverce and corruption in Latin America / Manuel Villoria
  • Chapter 16. Enhancing accountability through results-oriented monitoring and evaluation systems / Sonia M. Ospina, Nuria Cunill-Grau, and Claudia Maldonado
  • Conclusion: the present and future of public administration in Latin America / Conrado Ramos and B Guy Peters.

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