Tendler, Judith <br/><br/>
Good government in the tropics / 
por Judith Tendler. -- 
 - Baltimore :  The Johns Hopkins University,  1997. 
 - 221 p. 
 - The Johns Hopkins Studies in Development .
<br/><br/> 1 - Introduction  The research  The previews  Clarifications  Preventive health: the case of the unskilled meritocracy  The central in the descentralized  The unskilled meritocracy and its supervisors  The self-enlarging job  Conclusion  3 - The emergency employment program and its unlikely heroes  The de-clientelization of drought relief  Destined for poor performance  The extension agent as "refrigerator"  Status versus municipal government  Lessons for normal times  4 - Frontline workers and agricultural productivity  The story of Santana: driven by clients and customized  Fighting the boll weevil and hurting small farmers  The new standarlization: the training visit system  Standarlization versus customization in agricultural extension  Conclusion: implications for practice  5 - Small firms and large buyers: demand-driven public procurement  SF -favoring procurement: the nonexistent debate  Customers, suppliers, and their brokers: the case of school furniture  When small firms deliver better: school maintenance, repair and reconstruction  Publicity, opposition, and the unreplication success  Conclusion  6 - Civil servants and civil society, governments central and local  Work transformed  Decentralization, participation, and other things local  The three-way dynamic: local, central and civic  Civil society and good government: what causes what?  The comparative advantages of NGO's and goverment  Leadership, inadvertency, and advice 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801854520 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Gestão de Qualidade<br/> Administração Estadual<br/>Descentralização Administrativa<br/>Inovação<br/>Serviço Público<br/> Políticas Públicas