Reforming the State:

"An elegantly written and consistently structured book that scrutinizes Latin America's attempts at remedying the intrinsic weakness of its states and the fragility of its democratic governance.... important and timely."—Carlos Santiso, Democratization

"This volume brings together thoughtful essays on the new public management with a series of essays grounded in the historical experience of Latin America. Together, the essays lay out the nature of what needs to be done to turn inefficient, ineffective and unresponsive states into ones capable of providing for the public interest."—Merilee S. Grindle, The Journal of Latin American Studies

"Reforming the State demonstrates that the neoclassical complacency about markets is no longer tenable."—Carlos Santiso, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

• Foreword—Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
• Preface—The Editors.
• Managerial Public Administration: Strategy and Structure for a New State—L.C. Bresser Pereira.
• On the Design of the State: A Principal-Agent Perspective—A. Przeworski.
• The Global Revolution: Reforming Government-Sector Management—D. F. Kettl.
• The Complementarity of Economic Restructuring and Rebuilding the State in Latin America—W. Glade.
• Possibilities and Political Imperatives: 70 years of Administration Reform in Latin America—P. Spink.
• From Bureaucratic to Managerial Public Administration in Brazil—L.C. Bresser Pereira.
• Democratic Governability in Latin America at the end of the Twentieth Century—J. Prats Català.