Merilee S Grindle
Biographic Data
| ID | 301365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merilee S Grindle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merilee S |
| FAMILY NAME | Grindle |
| SIGNATURE | GRINDLE M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 424 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Good Governance, R.I.P: A Critique and an Alternative
Democracy and Clientelism: How Uneasy a Relationship
Democracy and ClientelismHow Uneasy a Relationship? Merilee Grindle (bio) Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy. Edited by Diego Abente Brun and Larry Diamond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 267. $34.95 paper. $69.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781421412290. Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics. Edited by Tina Hilgers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xi + 258. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811372759…
Public sector reform as problem-solving? Comment on the World Bank’s Public Sector Management Approach for 2011 to 2020
The World Bank has recently released its Public Sector Management (PSM) Approach for 2011–20. This commentary reviews the core messages of this document and then indicates how it embodies a convergence between academic research and practice in its approach and analytic framework. It then presents a ‘thought experiment’ about how practitioners might bring scholarship and practice together as suggested by the PSM approach. Nevertheless, effective i…
Jobs for the Boys: Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective
Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in history and explores the political processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service systems. Such reforms are consistently resisted, she …
Governance Reform: The New Analytics of Next Steps
Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru ‐ by Andersson K., Gordillo de Anda G., and van Laerhoven F
Good Enough Governance Revisited
The concept of good enough governance provides a platform for questioning the long menu of institutional changes and capacity‐building initiatives currently deemed important (or essential) for development. Nevertheless, it falls short of being a tool to explore what, specifically, needs to be done in any real world context. Thus, as argued by the author in 2004, given the limited resources of money, time, knowledge, and human and organisational c…
Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries
The good governance agenda is unrealistically long and growing longer over time. Among the multitude of governance reforms that “must be done” to encourage development and reduce poverty, there is little guidance about what's essential and what's not, what should come first and what should follow, what can be achieved in the short term and what can only be achieved over the longer term, what is feasible and what is not. If more attention is given…
Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America
Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America
Despite the Odds: The Political Economy of Social Sector Reform in Latin America
Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America
Divergent cultures? When public organizations perform well in developing countries
Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa
Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa
The 1980s and 1990s posed great challenges to governments in Latin America and Africa. Deep economic crises and significantly heightened pressure for political reform severely taxed their capacity to manage economic and political tasks. These crises pointed to an intense need to reform the state and redefine its relationship to the market and civic society. This book examines the paradox of states that have been weakened by crisis just as their c…
Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa
Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa
The 1980s and 1990s posed great challenges to governments in Latin America and Africa. Deep economic crises and significantly heightened pressure for political reform severely taxed their capacity to manage economic and political tasks. These crises pointed to an intense need to reform the state and redefine its relationship to the market and civic society. This book examines the paradox of states that have been weakened by crisis just as their c…
Political Leadership and Policy Characteristics in Population Policy Reform
John W. Thomas, Merilee S. Grindle, Political Leadership and Policy Characteristics in Population Policy Reform, Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, Supplement: The New Politics of Population: Conflict and Consensus in Family Planning (1994), pp. 51-70
Agrarian Class Structures and State Policies: Past, Present, and Future
Despite the primacy of economic crisis and democratic consolidation in scholarship on Latin America during the past decade, concern about the agrarian sector continues to yield research and analysis. The questions that capture scholarly attention are not new
Other books in review
Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment . Joan M. Nelson
Policy reform and reform myopia
After the decision: Implementing policy reforms in developing countries
A Rich Land, A Poor People: Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas
Riot, Rebellion, and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico
Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries
The good governance agenda is unrealistically long and growing longer over time. Among the multitude of governance reforms that “must be done” to encourage development and reduce poverty, there is little guidance about what's essential and what's not, what should come first and what should follow, what can be achieved in the short term and what can only be achieved over the longer term, what is feasible and what is not. If more attention is given…
After the decision: Implementing policy reforms in developing countries
Policy makers, policy choices, and policy outcomes: The political economy of reform in developing countries
Patrons and Clients in the Bureaucracy: Career Networks In Mexico
As you know, we have an institution called the sexenio when everything changes.And we're here now for six years. You know how we all come in and get thrown out at the sexenio.If someone has a chief who is capable and has the prospects for a good future, then that person will probably think, "Perhaps I can go with him at the sexenio"; and it happens in reverse, too, if someone has a chief who is not particularly capable but who has influential fri…
Divergent cultures? When public organizations perform well in developing countries
Foreign aid and conditions precedent: Political and bureaucratic dimensions
Governance Reform: The New Analytics of Next Steps
"Power, Expertise and the "Tecnico: Suggestions from a Mexican Case Study
Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America
Policy Change in an Authoritarian Regime: Mexico Under Echeverría
The six-year presidency orsexenioof Luís Echeverría Alvarez was initiated in December of 1970. Six years later, significant changes had taken place in the public policies espoused by the Mexican regime. Most importantly, perhaps, the federal government shifted its public investment priorities away from an overriding preoccupation with industrial development toward greater concern for agricultural development. From 1971 to 1976, Echeverria's admin…
Public sector reform as problem-solving? Comment on the World Bank’s Public Sector Management Approach for 2011 to 2020
The World Bank has recently released its Public Sector Management (PSM) Approach for 2011–20. This commentary reviews the core messages of this document and then indicates how it embodies a convergence between academic research and practice in its approach and analytic framework. It then presents a ‘thought experiment’ about how practitioners might bring scholarship and practice together as suggested by the PSM approach. Nevertheless, effective i…
Political Leadership and Policy Characteristics in Population Policy Reform
John W. Thomas, Merilee S. Grindle, Political Leadership and Policy Characteristics in Population Policy Reform, Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, Supplement: The New Politics of Population: Conflict and Consensus in Family Planning (1994), pp. 51-70
Development Administration in the Eighties: New Agendas or Old Perspectives
Civil-Military Relations And Budgetary Politics In Latin America
Scholars have devoted considerable effort to exploring the possible connection between regime type and patterns of military spending in Latin America. This research has failed to demonstrate a significant relationship between them, in part because identifying regimes by whether they are civilian or military is not a useful way to measure military influence over decisions about budgetary allocations. This article rejects the use of regime type as …
Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment . Joan M. Nelson
Agricultural Development in Latin America Since 1960: The Unsustainable Options
Armed Intervention and U.S.-Latin American Relations
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"Power, Expertise and the "Tecnico: Suggestions from a Mexican Case Study
Policy Change in an Authoritarian Regime: Mexico Under Echeverría
The six-year presidency orsexenioof Luís Echeverría Alvarez was initiated in December of 1970. Six years later, significant changes had taken place in the public policies espoused by the Mexican regime. Most importantly, perhaps, the federal government shifted its public investment priorities away from an overriding preoccupation with industrial development toward greater concern for agricultural development. From 1971 to 1976, Echeverria's admin…
Chilean Rural Society from the Spanish Conquest to 1930
Patrons and Clients in the Bureaucracy: Career Networks In Mexico
As you know, we have an institution called the sexenio when everything changes.And we're here now for six years. You know how we all come in and get thrown out at the sexenio.If someone has a chief who is capable and has the prospects for a good future, then that person will probably think, "Perhaps I can go with him at the sexenio"; and it happens in reverse, too, if someone has a chief who is not particularly capable but who has influential fri…
Bureaucrats, Politicians and Peasants in Mexico: A Case Study in Public Policy
El destino de la Revolución Mexicana
Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World
This book addresses the broader questions of how both the content and the context of public policy affect its implementation. Through a series of case studies from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Zambia, Kenya, and India, ten scholars here demonstrate that numerous factors intervene between the statement of policy goals and their actual achievement in society. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-dem…
Armed Intervention and U.S.-Latin American Relations
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La reforma politica y los partidos en Mexico
LA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLITICAS Y SOCIALES ORGANIZO UNA MESA REDONDA PARA ANALIZAR EL LIBRO LA REFORMA POLITICA Y LOS PARTIDOS EN MEXICO, DEL DOCTOR OCTAVIO RODRIGUEZ ARAUJO, CON LA PARTICIPACION DEL LICENCIADO ANTONIO DELHUMEAU, DIRECTOR DE ESTA FACULTAD, Y LOS PROFESORES SERGIO DE LA PENA Y RAUL OLMEDO, ASI COMO DEL LICENCIADO GABRIEL CAREAGA, QUIEN FUNGIO COMO MODERADOR. EL AUTOR INDICO QUE SU OBRA TIENE EL PROPOSITO DE EXPLICAR HISTORICAMEN…
Mexico's Leaders: Their Education and Recruitment
La reforma política y los partidos en MéxicoIndustrialización, burguesía y clase obrera en México: El caso de MonterreyLa reforma política mexicana y el sistema pluripartidista
Prospects for integrated rural development: Evidence from Mexico and Colombia
Development Administration in the Eighties: New Agendas or Old Perspectives
Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World
Black Gold in Mexico and in U.S.-Mexican Relations
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State and Countryside
Foreign aid and conditions precedent: Political and bureaucratic dimensions
Agricultural Development in Latin America Since 1960: The Unsustainable Options
Civil-Military Relations And Budgetary Politics In Latin America
Scholars have devoted considerable effort to exploring the possible connection between regime type and patterns of military spending in Latin America. This research has failed to demonstrate a significant relationship between them, in part because identifying regimes by whether they are civilian or military is not a useful way to measure military influence over decisions about budgetary allocations. This article rejects the use of regime type as …
Searching for Rural Development: Labor Migration and Employment in Rural Mexico
Policy makers, policy choices, and policy outcomes: The political economy of reform in developing countries
After the decision: Implementing policy reforms in developing countries
A Rich Land, A Poor People: Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas
Riot, Rebellion, and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico
Policy reform and reform myopia
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