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... framework that emphasizes the mechanisms of social control, the author neglects other important aspects of crime and of the administration of justice. For example, the author does not mention contraband or the role of political and familial networks in the legal system. Considering that in postcolonial...

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... in each country a “National Council on the Public Service,” which will focus attention on the problems and symbolize top-level support of the need for change. The reader can learn much about Latin American administrative problems, and about measures already taken to cope with some of them. Some...

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... that Brazil is more divided than united certainly will reopen an old debate. Nor is it clear why the author chooses not to discuss the extinction of the state of Maranhão in 1772, a significant political event which occurred during the Lavradio administration. To the best of my knowledge, Maranhão...

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...Charles Thomson Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 The Administration of Technical Assistance: Growth in the Americas . By Glick Philip M. . Foreword by Sonne H. Christian . Chicago , 1957 . The University of Chicago Press . Appendices. Index . Pp. xix...

...Stephen J. Homick Society, Economy, and Defense in Seventeenth-Century Peru: The Administration of the Count of Alba de Liste (1655-61) . By Bradley Peter T. . Liverpool : Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool , 1992 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography . 170 pp...

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...Robert W. Butler Change and Bureaucracy: Public Administration in Venezuela . By Stewart Bill . Chapel Hill , 1978 . University of North Carolina Press . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 140 . Paper. $10.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979...

...Jan Black Politics and Administration in Brazil . Edited by García-Zamor Jean-Claude . Washington, D.C. , 1978 . University Press of America . Tables. Graph. Notes . Pp. v , 571 . Paper. $16.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The juxtaposition...

...Patrick Peppe Bureaucratic Politics and Administration in Chile . By Cleaves Peter S. . Berkeley , 1974 . University of California Press . Tables. Graphs. Diagrams. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xx , 352 . Cloth. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977...