Administrative Reforms And Democratic Governance

Author : Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans,Jon Pierre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136749490

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Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance by Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans,Jon Pierre Pdf

After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book looks at how reform has changed the role of the public administration in democratic governance. Featuring case studies on the UK, Germany, France, Norway, Ireland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Post communist states, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey and the European Commission, and focusing on two issues this book: Examines the significant variations in the "trajectories" of administrative reform among West European countries on the basis of empirically rooted research on different national case studies. Assesses the extent to which these "constitutive" public policies have affected the institutions of government and the governing processes of our democratic occidental states and ask how have NPM-inspired programs, with their exclusive focus on managerialist objectives and instruments, challenged the political and democratic nature of public administration? Looking at the broader issues relating to the current recompositions of democratic states, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of all matters relating to public administration and governance within political science, management, public law, sociology, contemporary history, and cultural studies.

Author : B. Guy Peters,Jon Pierre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134566556

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Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform by B. Guy Peters,Jon Pierre Pdf

This book looks critically at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. The contributors assess its scope and objectives, and the ways in which these reforms have impacted on the traditional roles of civil servants.

Author : Keping Yu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004186323

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The Reform of Governance by Keping Yu Pdf

The Reform of Governance is a translated collection of articles providing a look at how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent governmental history. This volume, as well as the others in the SSRC series, provide western scholars with an accessible English language look at the state of current scholarship in China on the interplay of the country's Democratic reforms, electoral rules, accountability and social welfare.

Author : Prof. Dr. Naim KAPUCU
Publisher : Astana Yayınları
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9786257890021

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Governance Reforms by Prof. Dr. Naim KAPUCU Pdf

This book is about good governance and governance reforms from a comparative public administration perspective. It examines the governmental, administrative, and political systems of both developed and developing countries with a focus on political systems and their manifestation in administrative systems. It sets out to introduce students to the structures, behaviors, and processes of public administration in a comparative perspective. The book places particular emphasis on exploring the role of public management systems within the wider political and democratic frameworks in which they function. The overall goal of the research is to analyze government administration in a comparative perspective. Topics include administrative theory, governance, public management, public sector organization and public sector reform, international standards of policy and practice, and the role of international institutions in promoting public sector modernization.

Author : Ani Matei
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783640712175

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Administrative reforms in South Eastern European states by Ani Matei Pdf

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: Südosteuropa, Balkan, University of Bucharest (Faculty of Public Administration, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The accession to the EU and enlargement of the European integration process have determined profound reforms in the European countries area, reforms gravitating around the objective nucleus represented by observing the fundamental principles of democracy, separation of powers and respect for the rule of law. Reform is considered as a fundamental part of a national effort to improve efficiency as diverse as Greece (Michalopoulos, 2003), increasing the competence and effectiveness of public administration, increasing the expertise, professionalism, knowledge and transparency (Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia). The year 1990 represented the start of founding the decentralised system, marked by legislative, institutional, political, economic reforms. The states analysed have represented the arena of the reforms in the administrative and judicial systems, some states have been interested to continue their preoccupations in view to implement the Community legislation into their domestic legislation, as well as to review and adapt to the specific European developments and requirements, while other states have been interested in the progress process in view of accession (Croatia) or in adopting a collection of laws, strategies and action plans for becoming EU and NATO members. The public administrations in the South-Eastern Europe area are subjected to a reform process according to the requirements of the integration process in the EU structures (Andrei, Matei, Rosca, 2008). The process is defined as an ensemble of reform measures at the level of civil service, local government and achievement of decentralization. Moreover, on the South Eastern European states, as well as on other countries, the economic and financial crisis exerts pressures influencing the mechanisms of the relationship between the two political and administrative levels, in all cases with implications related to financial constraints and effects on public service. The reforms of state administration started some time before countries’ accession to the EU (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia). The accession criteria of Copenhagen (1993), Madrid (1995) and Luxembourg impose to the candidate states conditionalities on guaranteeing democracy, rule of law, human rights, protection of minorities, economic conditionalities – functional market economy, political conditionalities – adherence to the objectives of the political, economic, monetary Union of the EU, resulted from the membership obligations.[...]

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Tek Nath Dhakal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781461473725

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In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond by Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Tek Nath Dhakal Pdf

The pursuit for better governance has assumed center stage in developmental discourse as well as reform initiatives of all organizations working for the public welfare, and includes such issues as service delivery and responding to citizens’ needs and demands. In the era of globalization, multilevel and new modes of governance are changing the traditional governance models of nation states, accelerated by technological innovation, rising citizen expectation, policy intervention from international and multilateral donor communities, and the hegemony of western ideology imposed on many developing nations. However, a universally accepted and agreed upon definition of 'governance’ still remains elusive. There is no consensus or agreement as to what would be the nature and form of governance and public administration. The question that is raised: Is there a universal governance mechanism that fits in all contexts or governance mechanisms should be based on home grown ideas?One can see various programs and policies of reforms and reorganizations in public administration in the developing countries, but these efforts have not been effective to address the challenging issues of economic development, employment generation, poverty reduction, ensuring equality of access to public services, maintaining fairness and equity, security and safety of citizens, social cohesion, democratic institution building, ensuring broader participation in the decision making process, and improving the quality of life. Therefore, there is a widespread concern for better governance or sound governance to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making this book of interest to academics as well as policy-makers in global public administration.

Author : Norbert Kersting,Janice Caulfield,R. Andrew Nickson,Dele Olowu,Hellmut Wollmann
Publisher : Springer-Verlag
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 353116953X

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Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective by Norbert Kersting,Janice Caulfield,R. Andrew Nickson,Dele Olowu,Hellmut Wollmann Pdf

"Good local governance" reflects the dual functions of local government. On the one hand, democratic regimes gain input legitimacy by responsiveness and by being inclusive towards the preferences of their citizens. On the other hand, they achieve output legitimacy by effectively delivering public goods and services. Their governance strategies follow three major paths - "decentralisation," "political administrative reforms" and "participatory reforms". But national contexts, actors, political culture and path dependency matter a lot. In this book continent-wide developments are compared by using relevant country studies. This comparative approach focuses on "developing countries" in Asia, Africa and Latin America, comparing and contrasting their experience with that of European countries

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400836857

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Democratic Governance by Mark Bevir Pdf

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, markets, and networks. Democracy exhibits blurred lines of accountability and declining legitimacy. Bevir explores how new theories of governance undermined traditional government in the twentieth century. Politicians responded by erecting great bureaucracies, increasingly relying on policy expertise and abstract notions of citizenship and, more recently, on networks of quasi-governmental and private organizations to deliver services using market-oriented techniques. Today, the state is an unwieldy edifice of nineteenth-century government buttressed by a sprawling substructure devoted to the very different idea of governance--and democracy has suffered. In Democratic Governance, Bevir takes a comprehensive look at governance and the history and thinking behind it. He provides in-depth case studies of constitutional reform, judicial reform, joined-up government, and police reform. He argues that the best hope for democratic renewal lies in more interpretive styles of expertise, dialogic forms of policymaking, and more diverse avenues for public participation.

Author : Luc Rouban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 4274903109

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Citizens and the New Governance by Luc Rouban Pdf

This volume addresses the relationship of citizenship and public management in Europe. After 15 years of state reform, it is time for an overall discussion of the theoretical and empirical impact and limits of New Public Management, as one of the latest reorientations in public administration, on the practice of citizenship. It points out the tension between a focus on improvement of state bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the involvement of citizens in the co-production of policies on the other. It also points to a fundamental change that is taking place: the imortance of state apparatuses for the development and sustainability of viable societies is being de-emphasized and special attention to "governance" is now taking over the central place, that for so long has been occupied by attention to "government". Through the eco-production of public policies by citizens and public authorities working together, a new civil society is emerging. The book highlights the fact that the re-invention of the citizen is of crucial importance to public administration practice, as well as to the various public administration disciplines in Europe.

Author : Jerri Killian,Niklas Eklund
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780849380662

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Handbook of Administrative Reform by Jerri Killian,Niklas Eklund Pdf

The field of public administration currently lacks sufficient resources for understanding the rationale, implications, and inherent practices of reforming government administration around the world.The Handbook of Administrative Reform satisfies this need by bringing together diverse international experts to analyze the sensible processes an

Author : United Nations. Division for Public Administration and Development Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political participation
ISBN : OSU:32435078833902

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Public Administration and Democratic Governance by United Nations. Division for Public Administration and Development Management Pdf

Strengthening trust, accountability, and participation in government are essential to serving the needs of citizens. This volume brings together concepts and ideas from around the world on how to achieve more responsive and accountable public administration within the framework of democratic governance. Public officials and administrators are provided with conceptual and policy tools to help them understand today's complex challenges, and to pursue ideas that are most likely to enhance service delivery from the citizen's perspective. The publication is one of the analytical products emerging from the Global Forum on Reinventing Government.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Tampere
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789514459177

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FROM GOVERNING TO GOVERNANCE: A process of change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kuldeep Mathur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199097029

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Recasting Public Administration in India by Kuldeep Mathur Pdf

Ever since a democratic system of government was adopted and a strategy of planned economic development was launched in India, the planners were quite conscious of the need for an administrative system different from the colonial one to implement the planned objective of development. Kuldeep Mathur, in this volume, examines these administrative reforms and provides a magisterial account of the changes in the institutional process of public administration. The introduction of neoliberal policies revived concerns about reform and change, thereby giving rise to a new vocabulary in the discourse of public administration. The conventional world of public administration was now expected to adopt management practices of the private sector and interact with it to achieve public policy goals. New institutions are now being layered on traditional ones, and India is becoming a recipient of managerial ideas whose efficacy has yet to be tested on Indian soil. In light of the aforementioned changes, this volume argues that hybrid architecture for delivering public goods and services has been the most significant transformation to be institutionalized in the current era and critiques the neoliberal transformation from within a mainstream public administration perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCBK:C088579395

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Democracy, Governance, and Globalization by Anonim Pdf

Contributed articles; volume in honor of Paul H. Appleby, 1891-1963, political scientist.

Author : PARDEEP SAHNI,UMA MEDURY
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788120322042

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GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT by PARDEEP SAHNI,UMA MEDURY Pdf

This well-presented collection with contributions from academics and administrators reflects the growing concern towards the present-day practice of governance. It focuses on the need for Governance for Sustainable Human Development to manage the country's social as well as economic resources leading to better development-founded on four pillars of Accountability, Transparency, Predictability, and Participation. It thus calls for unfolding various issues and devising suitable strategies towards humane governance through appropriate political, bureaucratic, economic, and legal reforms. Highlighting its theme in the initial chapters in the New Public Management perspective, the book goes on to unravel the major administrative loopholes in Indian administration, such as lack of transparency and accountability, and the stranglehold of corruption, all of which lead to human deprivation. Later chapters give a synoptic overview of administrative reforms so far undertaken in India, and emphasize the effectiveness of governance in establishing appropriate balance in relative roles of public, private and civil society organizations, rights and responsibilities of politicians, bureaucrats and community, and economic and social justice. The book closes on a positive note strongly reiterating administrative re-engineering to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century for ensuring a holistic development of the country. Recent and real life happenings infused in the text to substantiate arguments, make it an interesting reading. The book will be of immense use to the students and teachers of public administration, social science, political science, and those who practise public administration. It will also be useful to a large number of government departments-both at the union and the state levels.