The Management of Change in Government
Title | The Management of Change in Government PDF eBook |
Author | A.F. Leemans |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9401013837 |
The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development
Title | The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Andrews |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2013-02-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1139619640 |
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.
Reform by Numbers
Title | Reform by Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Cantens |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2012-11-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821397133 |
This book was written in the context of new and innovative policies for customs and tax administration reform. Eight chapters describe how measurement and various quantification techniques may be used to fight against corruption, improve cross-border celerity, boost revenue collection, and optimize the use of public resources. More than presenting “best practices” and due to the association of academics and practitioners, the case studies explore the conditions under which measurement has been introduced and the effects on the administrative structure, and its relations with the political authority and the users. By analyzing the introduction of measurement to counter corruption and improve revenue collection in Cameroon, two chapters describe to which extent the professional culture has changed and what effects have been noted or not on the public accountability of fiscal administrations. Two other chapters present experiments of uses of quantification to develop risk analysis in Cameroon and Senegal. By using mirror analysis on the one hand and data mining on the other hand, these two examples highlight the importance of automated customs clearance systems which collect daily extensive data on users, commodities flows and officials. One chapter develops the idea of measuring smuggling to improve the use of human and material resources in Algeria and nurture the questioning on the adaptation of a legal framework to the social context of populations living near borders. Finally, two examples of measurement policies, in France and in South Korea, enlighten the diversity of measurement, the specificities of developing countries and the convergences between developing and developed countries on common stakes such as trade facilitation and better use of public funds.
Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries
Title | Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Ayeni |
Publisher | Commonwealth Secretariat |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780850927115 |
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.
Public Management Reform
Title | Public Management Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Pollitt |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781280815027 |
In this major new contribution to a rapidly expanding field, the authors offer an integrated analysis of the wave of management reforms which have swept through so many countries in the last twenty years. The reform trajectories of ten countries are compared, and key differences of approach discussed. Unlike some previous works, this volume affords balanced coverage to the 'New Public Management' (NPM) and the 'non-NPM' or 'reluctant NPM' countries, since it covers Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Unusually, it also includes a preliminary analysis of attempts to improve management within the European Commission.
Administrative Reform
Title | Administrative Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald E. Caiden |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1351533894 |
What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do they approach their task? And who benefits and who suffers from it? Does a theory of administrative reform exist?A survey of published research on administrative reform reveals that satisfactory answers to these questions are handicapped by methodological and theoretical shortcomings. There are no common definitions, no agreement over content, no selected boundaries, no clear links with the wide phenomenon of social reform, no firm hypothesis tested by empirical findings, and no continuous dialogue between practitioners and theorists. This book is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the subject for professionals and students in the fields of public and private administration. It carefully examines the diverse interdisciplinary literature on the subject and identifies and develops the most promising approaches towards a unified theory.Caiden shows how the study of administrative reform can contribute substantially to the development of administrative theory, and constructs a working definition of the phenomenon of administrative reform, distinguishing it from social change and from administrative change. The practical use of this definition is tested by the analysis of various case histories of administrative cultures of different periods in history, from which a common cycle of reform processes is discerned. The author follows with a detailed examination of the processes themselves. The book concludes with a discussion of the obstacles to reform and a review of the author's findings and conclusions.
Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries
Title | Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Yusuf Bangura |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2006-01-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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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.