Public Sector Reform In Developing And Transitional Countries

Author : Christopher J. Rees,Farhad Hossain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135740795

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Public Sector Reform in Developing and Transitional Countries by Christopher J. Rees,Farhad Hossain Pdf

Over recent decades, decentralization has emerged as a key Public Sector Reform strategy in a wide variety of international contexts. Yet, despite its emergence as a ubiquitous activity that cuts across disciplinary lines in international development, decentralization is understood and applied in many different ways by parties acting from contrary perspectives. This book offers a fascinating insight into theory and practice surrounding decentralization activities in the Public Sectors of developing and transitional countries. In drawing on the expertise of established scholars, the book explores the contexts, achievements, progress and challenges of decentralization and local governance. Notably, the contributions contained in this book are genuinely international in nature; the chapters explore aspects of decentralization and local governance in contexts as diverse as Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Tanzania, Uganda, and Viet Nam. In summary, by examining the subject of decentralization with reference to specific developing and transitional Public Sector contexts in which it has been practiced, this book offers an excellent contribution towards a better understanding of the theory and practice of decentralization and local governance in international settings. This book was published as a special double issue of the International Journal of Public Administration.

Author : Charles Conteh,Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135100599

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Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries by Charles Conteh,Ahmed Shafiqul Huque Pdf

The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among individuals, agencies, and interest groups that can constrain behaviour, as well as provide incentives for collaborative action. Paradoxes inevitably emerge in policy network practice and design. The ability to manage government departments and operations has become less important than the ability to navigate the complex world of interconnected policy implementation processes. Public sector reform policies and programmes, as a consequence, are a study in the complexities of the institutional and environmental context in which these reforms are pursued. Building on theory and practice, this book argues that advancing the theoretical frontlines of development management research and practice can benefit from developing models based on innovation, collaboration and governance. The themes addressed in Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries will enable public managers in developing countries cope in uncertain and turbulent environments as they seek optimal fits between their institutional goals and environmental contingencies.

Author : Yusuf Bangura,George A. Larbi
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015063651775

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Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries by Yusuf Bangura,George A. Larbi Pdf

The book critically examines some of the most topical and challenging issues confronting the public sector in developing countries in an era of globalization. The contributors examine the potential and limits of managerial, fiscal and decentralization reforms and highlight cases where selective use of some of the new management reforms has delivered positive results. Looking into the future, the book provides lessons from the experience of implementing public sector reforms in developing countries.

Author : R. Batley,G. Larbi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230001053

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The Changing Role of Government by R. Batley,G. Larbi Pdf

Batley and Larbi examine how governments of developing countries are organized to deliver public services. The book is based on comparative international studies of four service sectors: Health care, urban water, business promotion and agricultural marketing. Governments everywhere are being driven to adopt an 'indirect' approach - managing, contracting and regulating public agencies or private partners, rather than providing services directly. It questions how governments are responding and whether this approach is appropriate to the capacities of developing countries.

Author : Ezra Suleiman,John Waterbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000304541

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The Political Economy Of Public Sector Reform And Privatization by Ezra Suleiman,John Waterbury Pdf

This book suggests some of the ways in which levels of development shape public sector reform and privatization in developed and developing countries, showing that conservative as well as socialist governments were committed to increasing the state's guiding role in the political economy.

Author : Victor Ayeni
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0850927110

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Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries by Victor Ayeni Pdf

A country-by-country synopsis of the public sector reform programmes in 40 Commonwealth developing countries, with a profile of each country and an outline of the reform initiatives, implementation processes, achievements and problems encountered.

Author : Matt Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139619646

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The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development by Matt Andrews Pdf

Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered relevant by implementing agents. The result is a set of new forms that do not function. However, there are realistic solutions emerging from institutional reforms in some developing countries. Lessons from these experiences suggest that reform limits, although challenging to adopt, can be overcome by focusing change on problem solving through an incremental process that involves multiple agents.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Public Management Service
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038409341

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Governance in Transition by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Public Management Service Pdf

"This report analyses the nature of these reforms, their rationale and design as well as issues of implementation and evaluation"--Back cover.

Author : Hellmut Wollmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781957320

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Evaluation in Public-sector Reform by Hellmut Wollmann Pdf

Articles from internationally renowned scholars highlighting the connections between public-sector reform and evaluation.

Author : Joachim Jens Hesse,Christopher Hood,B. Guy Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 3428107985

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Paradoxes in Public Sector Reform by Joachim Jens Hesse,Christopher Hood,B. Guy Peters Pdf

As the study of administrative reform has progressed over the past decades, worthy descriptive research on these changes has accumulated across a number of countries. This volume seeks to push the analysis beyond said first generation of research, focusing on the »paradoxes« or unintended effects of public sector reform. Therefore, it does not attempt to provide a detailed description of administrative change in the 14 systems considered, but to analyse them selectively from a »paradox perspective«, i.e. highlighting apparently surprising or unintended aspects of administrative reform.The administrative systems discussed in this volume include not only the developed industrial democracies, but also transitional and developing countries such as the People's Republic of China and the former socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. Furthermore, the European Union is analysed as a compound administrative system constructed from its constituent parts.

Author : Peter S. Heller,Christian Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCSD:31822029519287

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Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries by Peter S. Heller,Christian Keller Pdf

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Farhad Hossain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317597322

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Administrative Culture in Developing and Transitional Countries by Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Farhad Hossain Pdf

The book explores theoretical, methodological, and empirical underpinnings of administrative culture as well as prospects and challenges associated with it in the context of and across developing and transitional countries. Referring to dominant norms and values in public organizations administrative culture is about the attitudes and perceptions of public officials. In many countries civil servants are criticised for being corrupt, incompetent, unreliable and self-centred.Their attitudes, norms and values and the way they act are in constant conflict with rule of law. Recently the virtues of the Weberian model of bureaucracy have been reclaimed as an alternative to New Public Management (NPM): i.e. as a model which emphasizes impartiality, rule-following, expertise, and hierarchy rather than manipulation of incentive structures and market competition. In particular it has been argued that a system of meritocratic recruitment and predictable, long-term careers increases the professional competence of the bureaucrats and fosters a culture of professionalism among them. Still it is unclear how and under what conditions such a model can be adopted.Among main hindrances seems to be established power structures and the existing political and societal culture which undermine the effective implementation of the Weberian model. This book was published a s aspecial issue of the International Journal of Public Administration.

Author : Salvatore Schiavo-Campo,Hazel M. McFerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317461777

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Public Management in Global Perspective by Salvatore Schiavo-Campo,Hazel M. McFerson Pdf

Written by two authors with a wide range of experience in international affairs, this introductory text addresses both the commonalities and diversity of administrative practice around the world, including a succinct but thorough overview of PA in the United States. It combines solid conceptual foundations with strong coverage of nuts-and-bolts "how to" topics, such as personnel management, procurement, and budgeting, and covers both developed countries and developing and transitional economies.The book's chapters are organized into four major sections: government functions and organization; management of government activity; interaction between government and citizens; and prospects of administrative reform. Plentiful illustrations and examples throughout the book, and "What to Expect" sections and discussion questions in each chapter, make this an ideal text for any PA course that takes a global perspective.

Author : Sabine Kuhlmann,Geert Bouckaert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137525482

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Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis by Sabine Kuhlmann,Geert Bouckaert Pdf

This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies. Based on the results of COST research entitled, ‘Local Public Sector Reforms: an International Comparison’, this volume takes a European-scale approach, examining local government in 28 countries. Local government has been the most seriously affected by the continuously expanding global financial crisis and austerity policies in some countries, and is experiencing a period of increased reform activity as a result. This book considers both those local governments which have adopted or moved away from New Public Management (NPM) modernization to ‘something different’ (what some commentators have labelled ‘post-NPM’), as well as those which have implemented ‘other-than-NPM measures’, such as territorial reforms and democratic innovations.

Author : Navin Girishankar,Migara De Silva
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821342347

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Strategic Management for Government Agencies by Navin Girishankar,Migara De Silva Pdf

This paper presents a conceptual framework for the strategic management of government agencies in developing and transition economies. It delineates a working model of an efficient government agency for which core strategy, internal organizational design, and external environment are aligned. It then demonstrates how the objectives of public sector management are ideally based on assessments of "areas of misalignment" in government agencies.