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Inside job : how government insiders subvert the public interest
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ISBN: 9781107153738 1107153735 9781316607770 1316607771 9781316599983 1108116248 1108116884 1316599981 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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National decline is typically blamed on special interests from the demand side of politics corrupting a country's institutions. The usual demand-side suspects include crony capitalists, consumer activists, economic elites, and labor unions. Less attention is given to government insiders on the supply side of politics - rulers, elected officials, bureaucrats, and public employees. In autocracies and democracies, government insiders have the motive, means, and opportunity to co-opt political power for their benefit and at the expense of national well-being. Many storied empires have succumbed to such inside jobs. Today, they imperil countries as different as China and the United States. Democracy - government by the people - does not ensure government for the people. Understanding how government insiders use their power to subvert the public interest - and how these negative consequences can be mitigated - is the topic of this book by Mark A. Zupan.


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The past has another pattern.
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ISBN: 0393014819 Year: 1982 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Norton


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Dictionnaire des ministres de 1789 à 1989
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ISBN: 2262007101 9782262007102 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris : Perrin,

La fonction publique internationale : lexique commenté.
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ISBN: 2110035366 9782110035363 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris La Documentation Française


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Rulers and governments of the world
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ISBN: 0859350215 0859350517 0859350096 0859350568 Year: 1977 Publisher: London ; New York : Bowker,

Public management and governance
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ISBN: 9780415430425 9780415430432 9780203884096 0415430429 0415430437 0203884094 1134527837 1134527845 0203638581 1280102292 0203634217 9780203634219 0415252458 9780415252454 9780415252461 0415252466 0415252466 9781134527830 9781134527847 9780203638583 9781280102295 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Routledge

The enlargement of the European Union and NATO : ordering from the menu in Central Europe
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ISBN: 0521833590 9780521833592 0521682088 1107160898 0511230893 0511231660 051130868X 0511756224 1280702737 0511229275 0511230117 9780511230110 9780511230899 9780511231667 9780511756221 9781280702730 9781107160897 9780511229275 9780521682084 9780511227578 0511227574 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In 2004 the European Union and NATO each added ten new member states, most from the post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. In order to prepare for membership, these countries had to make many thousands of institutional and legal adjustments. Indeed, they often tried to modernize in just a few years, implementing practices that evolved over many decades in Western Europe. This book emphasizes the way that policy elites in Central and Eastern Europe often 'ordered from the menu' of established Western practices. When did this emulation of Western practices succeed and when did it result in a fiasco? Professor Jacoby examines empirical cases in agriculture, regional policy, consumer protection, health care, civilian control of the military, and military professionalism from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine. The book addresses debates in institutionalist theory, including conditionality, Europeanization, and external influences on democratic and market transitions.

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