Political Struggles and the Forging of Autonomous Government Agencies

✍ Scribed by Cristopher Ballinas Valdés (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 268
Series: Public Sector Organizations
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
A Power-Centred Framework for the Empirical Analysis....Pages 10-33
Zugzwang: Agency Creation and Bureaucratic Reaction....Pages 34-58
Institutions, Coalitions and Struggles in the Mexican Federal Bureaucracy....Pages 59-80
An Overview of Mexico’s Autonomous Agencies Constellation....Pages 81-104
The Central Bank....Pages 105-134
The Federal Telecommunications Commission....Pages 135-163
The Energy Regulatory Commission....Pages 164-186
Conclusions....Pages 187-195
Back Matter....Pages 221-250

✦ Subjects

European Politics; Public Policy; Political Science; Public Administration; Comparative Politics

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