Bureaucratizing The Good Samaritan: The Limitations Of Humanitarian Relief Operations; Author: Waters, Tony; Hardback; Book

Author: Waters, Tony
Reissue; Hardback; Book
326 pages
Published: March 2001
The Perseus Books Group
ISBN: 0813367905
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Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assumptions of the international refugee relief regime. Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are determined by their institutional frameworks. Using a comparative case study approach, the nature of international refugee relief is assessed in the context of how large bureaucracies work -- and do not work. The book concludes by noting that if refugee relief programs are to become more effective, the connection between the press's emotional demands for victims and the bureaucratic organizations' decision processes need to be identified and reassessed.This text is a study of the strengths and weaknesses of the system of emergency refugee relief programs, utilizing a case study approach which analyzes the ways in which large relief bureaucracies work - and do not work.