Browsing by Author "Grindle, Merilee"
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Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Career Civil Service Systems in Latin America
Grindle, Merilee Serrill (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American countries and it is proving resistant to the imprecations of public sector reformers. ... -
Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea
Grindle, Merilee Serrill (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Good governance has grown rapidly to become a major ingredient in analyses of what’s missing in countries struggling for economic and political development. Intuitively and in research, good governance is a seductive ... -
In Quest of the Political: The Political Economy of Development Policy Making
Grindle, Merilee (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-06)This paper explores some of the central debates in the application of political economy to development policy making. It is particularly concerned with the connection between theory, empirical observation, and the practice ... -
Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability
Grindle, Merilee Serrill (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I suggest that democratic participation in local government is enhanced when citizens can ... -
Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World
Grindle, Merilee Serrill (School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Ideas about social policy and its role in development have shifted over time, signaling the difficulty of finding clarity in approaches to social investment, poverty alleviation, and equity. In consequence, research and ...