Description: 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.

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