Containing Patronage Pressures
Everywhere in the world reformers feel pressure to accommodate the wishes of people whose support they need.
In an effort to build a coalition for reform and maintain peace, negotiators often try to accommodate factions that could keep conflict alive. Giving these groups control of key ministries or services can produce trouble later, however, if militias use their positions to extract private benefit or if they use these positions to limit access of others to basic services. Are there strategies for reducing the trade-offs without undermining peace?
Many reform experiments founder when leaders ensconce relatives and friends in public sector jobs and then cannot find a socially acceptable way to move them out of office when they use positions for personal advantage or see their jobs as permanent entitlements. Are there ways to regulate patronage so that it increasingly emphasizes community service and de-emphasizes personal aggrandizement?
Latest Publications
- Palermo Renaissance Part 3: Strengthening Municipal Services, 1993-2000
Focus Area: City Management, Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Countering Criminal Economies, Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service, Waste Management
Country: Italy
- Blowing the Whistle on the Pay-to-Play Game: Campaign Financing Reform in New Jersey, 1998-2012
Focus Area: Anti-Corruption, Containing Patronage Pressures
Country: United States
- Palermo Renaissance Part 2: Reforming City Hall, 1993-2000
Focus Area: City Management, Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Building a Reform Team and Staff, Countering Criminal Economies, Containing Patronage Pressures
Country: Italy
- From Fear to Hope in Colombia: Sergio Fajardo and Medellín, 2004-2007
Focus Area: City Management, Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service
Country: Colombia
- Saving a Sinking Agency: The National Port Authority of Liberia, 2006-2011
Focus Area: Countering Criminal Economies, Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service
Country: Liberia
Latest Interviews
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Abhayanand
Focus Area: Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Building a Reform Team and Staff, Countering Criminal Economies, Containing Patronage Pressures, Accountable Policing
Country: India
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Indrawati, Sri Mulyani
Focus Area: Reconciling Economic Policy and Institution-Building Goals, Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Building a Reform Team and Staff, Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service
Country: Indonesia
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Madhab, Jayanta
Focus Area: Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Building a Reform Team and Staff, Containing Patronage Pressures
Country: India
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Ellis, Gregory
Focus Area: Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service
Country: Solomon Islands
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Tinubu, Bola
Focus Area: City Management, Getting the News Out/Managing Expectations, Balancing the Central and Local, Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service, Waste Management
Country: Nigeria
