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Reflections on the Jesuit Mission to China
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their particular ways of doing things around the world. However, missionary work, whether ...
Why it Worked: Critical Success Factors of a Financial Reform Project in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Little is written about the critical success factors that make or break a project implementing a public financial management reform in Africa. Based on the twelve year experience of Harvard’s DSA project which transformed ...
Making Democratic-Governance Work: The Consequences for Prosperity
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2011)
Does democratic governance expand wealth and prosperity? There is no consensus about this issue despite the fact that for more than half a century, rival theories about the regime-growth relationship have been repeatedly ...
Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea
(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 ...
Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these indicators as a-theoretical and biased. Critics of the critics counter that no better ...
Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Career Civil Service Systems in Latin America
(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. ...
Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability
(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 ...
A New Era for Justice Sector Reform in Haiti
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
In the months before the January earthquake, Haiti and its criminal justice institutions were the subject of an unprecedented effort by two UN agencies to measure the state of the Rule of Law. Drawing on the results of ...