ISBN10: 0199261180, ISBN13: 9780199261185, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2004 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 330 p.

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ISBN10: 0199261180, ISBN13: 9780199261185, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Building the Republican State is an insightful analysis of the new state and the new public management that is emerging in the twenty-first century. It presents the historical stages that led to the modern state, identifies a crisis of the nation-state and its origins in a fiscal crisis and in globalization, and situates public management in the last phase - the social-liberal and republican state. To understand such stages the author develops the theoryof republican rights, as a fourth type of citizenship right, after the civil, the political, and the social rights. The book contains an original model of reform, in which the roles of thestate, the forms of ownership, the types of public administration, and the organizational-institutions indicated in each situation are put together. Additionally, the book discusses the political theories behind the reform, and its political implications. Throughout the book, the author underlines the complementary roles of markets and the state, and the importance of building state capacity to assure administrative efficiency, always having in count the 'democratic constraint', i.e., theprevalence of the political over the economic realm. This is essential reading both for those studying political theory and government reform, as well as for anyone interested in statepolitics and globalization. Written by a ...
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