Reform Mayor Bolivia be puzzled consultant's report shows a shocking level of corruption on the part of the municipal police force whose many duties include regulation of the sprawling open-air markets. Licenses, health inspections, and many other forms of public permits regularly exchanged for money, goods, even sex. Moreover, the report concludes that the majority of the police can not do their job, even if they intended to do so, most of them are illiterate. In this political governance / ethics case, a Harvard-educated mayor must decide whether and how an attempt to reform the system, at a time when he faces re-election and is widely regarded as a "technocrat." HKS Case Number 1104.0 "Hide
by Lucy McCauley, Mark Roberts, Howard Husock 10 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 1992. Prod. #: HKS032-PDF-ENG
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