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Organizing Leviathan: Politicians, bureaucrats, and the making of good government

Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This book addresses the effects of the organization of government on good government (or its absence).Dahlström and Lapuente note that existing explanations of good government tend to focus on the input side of political systems, such as the level of economic development or the design of democratic institutions, while neglecting the state apparatus itself.The book's core ambition is to demonstrate theoretically and empirically that bureaucracy, rather than democracy, the economy, or culture, should be considered as the main driver of good government.The astute
Author: Tobias Bach
Institution: University of Oslo
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2803459989
FWCI: 19.62
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