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Public Choices and Policy Change

The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries

Merilee S. Grindle and John W. Thomas

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This work looks not so much at the obstacles to reform as the ways to get around them through imaginative management. The proper setting of an agenda for action, the process of making intelligent decisions and the implementation of reform are all analyzed in depth.

An essential work of reference for researchers investigating contemporary socio-political change in the Latin American countryside.

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9
Pages
240
ISBN
9780801841569
Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Explaining Choice and Change
Chapter 2. Linking Theory and Practice
Chapter 3. Generalizing about Developing Country Policy

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Explaining Choice and Change
Chapter 2. Linking Theory and Practice
Chapter 3. Generalizing about Developing Country Policy Environments
Chapter 4. Settling Agendas: Circumstance, Process, and Reform
Chapter 5. Making Decisions: The Concerns of Policy Elites
Chapter 6. Implementing Reform: Arenas, Stakes, and Resources
Chapter 7. Reforming Policies in the 1980s: Changing Circumstances and Shifting Parameters
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Finding Room to Maneuver
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Author Bios
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Merilee S. Grindle

Merilee S. Grindle is in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her previous books include State and Countryside.
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John W. Thomas

John W. Thomas is Institute Fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has written and consulted extensively on issues in development and is a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government.