The Politics and Governance of Public Services in Developing Countries

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The Politics and Governance of Public Services in Developing Countries

dc.contributor.author	Batley, Richard
dc.contributor.author	McCourt, Willy
dc.contributor.author	Mcloughlin, Claire
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-09T16:54:44Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-09T16:54:44Z
dc.date.issued	2012-03-06
dc.description.abstract	Politics and governance have become central to explanations of the widespread under-provision of public services in developing countries. Political analysis offers an understanding of what might otherwise appear to be exclusively managerial or capacity problems. The articles in this special issue of PMR contribute to three main aspects of this new literature on the political economy of service provision: how the incentives of elites are formed and affect whether, to whom and how services are provided; how top–down and bottom–up systems of accountability may act and also interact to affect incentives; and the effect of service provision on state–society relations. The analysis in this and the following articles suggests that the politics of service provision should be understood as a cycle of causation: politics affect the policy, governance and implementation of services, but in turn service provision is a theatre of politics and affects citizen formation and the development of state capacity and legitimacy. Taken as a whole, the articles suggest that a political perspective enables new insights into the causes of weak service provision, and how it can be improved.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Public Management Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/13347
dc.identifier.issn	1471-9037
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13347
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Public Management Review;14(2)
dc.relation.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	Developing countries
dc.subject	governance
dc.subject	politics
dc.subject	public service provision
dc.title	The Politics and Governance of Public Services in Developing Countries	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2012-03-06
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:07:16.095731Z
okr.doctype	Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.globalpractice	Governance
okr.guid	693321468163465370
okr.journal.nbpages	131-144
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14719037.2012.657840
okr.topic	Governance::Local Government
okr.topic	Governance::National Governance
okr.topic	Governance::Politics and Government
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.topic	Public Sector Development
okr.volume	14(2)