Politics within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil

Politics within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil
ISBN-10
082297679X
ISBN-13
9780822976790
Category
History
Pages
366
Language
English
Published
1992-02-15
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Pre
Author
Ben Ross Schneider

Description

Brazil was one of the most successful examples of state-led industrialization in the post-1945 era. Yet, on the surface, the Brazilian bureaucracy appears highly fragmented, personalized, and ad-hoc. Ben Ross Schneider looks behind this façade to explain how the Brazilian bureaucracy contributes to industrialization by analyzing career patterns and appointments which structure incentives and power more than formal organizations or institutions. Politics and personalism, of the right sort, Schneider argues, can in fact enhance policy effectiveness and state capacity.

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