Sri Lanka: Political Patronage

Willy McCourt
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Willy McCourt: University of Manchester

Chapter 7 in The Human Factor in Governance, 2006, pp 135-158 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A candidate appointed as a lorry driver following an interview’, according to the official records, on a day when he was actually serving abroad in his country’s armed forces; another appointed as an equipment dispatcher after he had already died. These things happened not in Chittagong’s local authority but in Chicago’s, and not in the nineteenth-century heyday of America’s spoils system’ but in the era of supposedly reinvented government’ in the twenty-first century (the armed forces in question being the US army of occupation in Iraq). Patronage is not confined to poor countries, and is not in inexorable decline even in rich ones (Younge, 2005).

Keywords: Civil Service; United Nations Development Programme; Asian Development Bank; Constitutional Amendment; Strategic Human Resource Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230208308_7

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