What is it about?
International promotion of public administration reform in post-conflict setting aims to the create a stable and professional bureaucracy that serves the state rather than political masters and related patronage networks. In practice, however, hierarchical political parties use legal gaps and informal practices to infiltrate their cronies and control the administration along the state spoils.
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Why is it important?
Shows the formal and informal mechanisms through which political patronage networks take control over the public administration and enable destribution of state spoils
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this article led to a long term collaboration with the co-author. It also enabled us a nuanced understanding and policy involvement in the area of public administration reform, state-building, international democracy promotion, informality and patronage that explains the hybrid reforms on post-conflict settings.
Arolda Elbasani
European University Institute
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This page is a summary of: State-building and patronage networks: how political parties embezzled the bureaucracy in post-war Kosovo, May 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003000730-3.
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