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Elton Skendaj - Creating Kosovo: International Oversight and the Making of Ethical Institutions - 9780801452949 - V9780801452949
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Creating Kosovo: International Oversight and the Making of Ethical Institutions

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Description for Creating Kosovo: International Oversight and the Making of Ethical Institutions Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 29, 16 tables, 13 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVWYK; JPH; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.

In shaping the institutions of a new country, what interventions from international actors lead to success and failure? Elton Skendaj’s investigation into Kosovo, based on national survey data, interviews, and focus groups conducted over ten months of fieldwork, leads to some surprising answers. Creating Kosovo highlights efforts to build the police force, the central government, courts, and a customs service.

Skendaj finds that central administration and the courts, which had been developed under local authority, succumbed to cronyism and corruption, challenging the premise that local "ownership" leads to more effective state bureaucracies. The police force and customs service, directly ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452949
SKU
V9780801452949
Shipping Time
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About Elton Skendaj
Elton Skendaj is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami. He was a European Studies Research Scholar at the Wilson Center in 2011.

Reviews for Creating Kosovo: International Oversight and the Making of Ethical Institutions
Elton Skendaj's Creating Kosovo: International Oversightand the Making of Ethical Institutions provides an in-depth analysis of state building and democracy promotionin the case of Kosovo. State building has been analyzed in depth from the institutional perspective; however, Skendaj’s book tackles it from a different angle by focusing on bureaucracies.... Answering the democratization and state-building hypotheses with rich data (many interviews) ... Read more

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