Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies, Brian Levy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. xvi + 266, £22.99, ISBN 978-0-19-936381-0

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Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action (2017, background): “These factors have been well discussed in the recent literature on politically smart, locally led development (Booth 2011), and in Brian Levy’s research on “working with the grain” (Levy 2014).”
Public Sector Management Reform in Developing Countries: Perspectives Beyond NPM Orthodoxy (2015, background): “Drawing on his book (Levy 2014), he proposes a good-fit framework for governance reform that matches reform strategies with regime types.”