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Although the everyday actions of civil servants and performance of government agencies have huge impacts on the lives of Latin America's citizens, scholars only recently analyzed the region's bureaucracies. In collaboration with Brazilian scholars, this book analyzes the implementation of nine policies in a diverse set of states.
List of contents
1. Toward a theory of policy implementation in Brazilian states 2. Bureaucrats and political bias 3. Why bureaucrats build networks 4. An agency that works: Rondônia's Court of Accounts 5. Infrastructure and corruption: Rio de Janeiro's Metropolitan Arc 6. Moving the people: the light rail system of Ceará 7. Conflicts over water charges in Espírito Santo's Doce River basin 8. The social organization model and the Children's Hospital in the Federal District 9. Reinventing secondary education in Minas Gerais 10. The solidarity economy program in Paraíba: coordination, capacity building, and state-society interactions 11. Troubled waters: cleaning São Paulo's Tietê River 12. Decentralization and electoral constraints in Santa Catarina 13. Restructuring the department of transportation in São Paulo 14. Inside Brazilian bureaucracy
About the author
Barry Ames is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Political Survival: Politicians and Public Policy in Latin America and The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil; coauthor of Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America; editor of the Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics; and author of articles in many political science journals. He specializes in political economy, electoral systems and legislative behavior, social context and political behavior, and bureaucracy.
João V. Guedes-Neto is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. His research concentrates on the individual-level dynamics of bureaucratic politics, coordination problems, the politics of policy implementation, and other aspects of intergroup relations. His work has appeared in outlets such as
Comparative Political Studies,
Party Politics, and
Policy & Society.
