Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations

Francisco Panizza (Editor) Francisco Panizza is professor in Latin American and comparative politics in the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author, coauthor, and editor of eight books and more than thirty articles published in peer-reviewed journals.B. Guy Peters (Editor) B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh and founding president of the International Public Policy Association. He is the author of Administrative Traditions: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Administrative Behavior and coeditor of Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration.Conrado Ramos Larraburu (Editor) Conrado Ramos Larraburu is professor in government and public administration in the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República. He has published extensively about public administration reforms in Latin America, with focus on civil service systems, models of public management, and the politics of patronage.

The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations is the rare volume in which the editors instead offer a coherent theoretical framework and then each set of chapter authors applies it to the country they study. This volume is the laudable result of a collective research endeavor rather than a patchwork of individual projects.