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Bureaucracy and implementation of complex tasks in rapidly developing states: Evidence from Indonesia

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Political institutions play key roles in rapidly developing states. This article describes the complex and overlapping responsibilities of Indonesian government institutions and explains how they affect policy design and implementation in two policy arenas: primary education and soil/water conservation. It suggests that the struggles for control over local level implementation between general (territorial) regional government and branch offices of specialized, central ministries seriously constrain performance in these two sectors.

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  1. Dwight Y. King
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Dwight Y. King is associate professor of political science and associate of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 (internet: dking@niu.edu). He continues use research on how the structures of national bureaucracies and the policies governing them affect civil servants’ behavior and economic development, as well as the political economy of bureaucratic reform.

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King, D.Y. Bureaucracy and implementation of complex tasks in rapidly developing states: Evidence from Indonesia. Studies in Comparative International Development 30, 78–92 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687161

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