TY - BOOK ID - 77871806 TI - Runaway state-building : patronage politics and democratic development PY - 2006 SN - 0801889219 9780801889219 0801883652 9780801883651 PB - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nation-building. KW - Patronage, Political. KW - Bureaucracy. KW - Democratization. KW - New democracies. KW - Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) KW - State-building KW - Political development KW - Political patronage KW - Spoils system KW - Civil service reform KW - Interorganizational relations KW - Political science KW - Public administration KW - Organizational sociology KW - Countries, Newly democratic KW - Democracies, New KW - Democratic states, New KW - Emerging democracies KW - Nations, Newly democratic KW - New democratic states KW - Newly democratic states KW - States, Newly democratic KW - Democracy KW - Democratization KW - Newly independent states KW - Democratic consolidation KW - Democratic transition KW - New democracies KW - Slovakia KW - Czech Republic KW - Poland KW - Politics and government KW - Clientelism, Political KW - Patron-client politics KW - Political clientelism KW - Political sociology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871806 AB - This timely study provides political scientists and political reformers with insights into points in the democratization process where appropriate intervention can minimize runaway state-building and cultivate efficient bureaucracy within a robust and competitive democratic system. ER -