Table of Contents:
  • The concept and causes of runaway state-building
  • Constraining government patronage : different logics of party competition
  • The runaway state-building phenomenon : patronage politics and bureaucratic rationalization
  • Remaking the regions : the Europeanization of the state or domestic politics as usual?
  • Local control : local parties and local state administrations
  • A runaway welfare state? : postcommunist welfare politics
  • Exporting the argument : party competition and state effectiveness in other new democracies.