Political Struggles and the Forging of Autonomous Government Agencies (Public Sector Organizations)

✍ Scribed by Cristopher Ballinas Valdés

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Argues that autonomous agencies are not the result of a systematic design, but are produced by the interactions of political and bureaucratic forces. The case studies illustrate how political struggles between politicians and bureaucrats can create a muddle of agencies that lack coherence and are subject to conflicting levels of political control.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The argument......Page 16
Political struggles and agency design......Page 17
The Mexican case......Page 18
The method......Page 20
The structure......Page 21
Introduction......Page 23
1 The changing character of the state and autonomous agencies......Page 24
2 Delegation and agency design......Page 31
3 Actors and the shape of autonomous agencies......Page 36
4 Bureaucrats: the neglected side of the story......Page 42
Introduction......Page 47
1 A typology of autonomy......Page 49
2 Statutes and agency design......Page 55
3 Three possible cases......Page 62
Final remarks: towards a more dynamic analysis of agentification......Page 67
Introduction: behind the curtain of hegemony......Page 72
1 The institutional foundations of bureaucratic politics......Page 73
2 Structural reforms and a shift in the patterns within the bureaucracy......Page 83
Final remarks......Page 92
Introduction......Page 94
1 The formal-legal/organisational autonomy of Mexican agencies......Page 95
2 Creation and evolution of the Mexican autonomous agencies......Page 98
3 Problems brewing: bureaucratic reaction to agency creation......Page 106
Final remarks......Page 116
1 Approaches to central bank independence......Page 118
2 The proliferation of central banks......Page 121
3 The Mexican case......Page 123
Final remarks......Page 145
Introduction......Page 148
1 Privatisation without regulation......Page 151
2 The COFETEL and the new Federal Telecommunications Law......Page 158
3 The Ley Televisa and the ‘new’ COFETEL......Page 166
Final remarks......Page 174
Introduction......Page 177
1 The Mexican energy sector’s governance structures......Page 179
2 The CRE’s creation and the 1993 initiative......Page 183
3 The 1995 initiative and the reform to the electricity sector......Page 189
4 The 2008 reform......Page 194
Final remarks......Page 197
Conclusions......Page 200
Notes......Page 209
References......Page 234
Index......Page 264