Download or read book Administrative Reform and the Development of Management Capacity written by Michel Paquin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Administrative Reforms and Policy Capacity in Asia written by Kidjie Saguin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 30 years witnessed massive shifts in administrative systems all over the world but there is little consensus in literature on how to successfully carry out reforms. In Asia, the diversity of economic advancement and varying roles of the bureaucracy in society offer a unique opportunity to examine different approaches to administrative reforms. Based on this diverse experience, capacity emerged as a universal area of concern in administrative reforms particularly for developing Asia. As Farazmand (2002) noted, reforms in developing countries “may involve a number of structural and process changes and improvements...by building the technical, professional, and administrative management capacity”. What these capacities are remain poorly studied and little research has been done to guide policy makers on how to go about administrative reform. This study seeks to fill this gap by conducting a qualitative analysis of 20 Project Validation Reports (PVRs) of projects tagged under a Public Sector Management. PVRs are independently verified versions of a project's achievements of outputs/outcomes by operations staff. These were coded and analysed to explore the nature of how capacity is embedded into the discourse of administrative reforms in development projects financed by international financing institutions (IFIs) like the Asian Development Bank. It does this by answering the following specific research questions: How is the concept of capacity important in administrative reforms? What are the critical capacities typically identified as contributory to the failure or success of administrative reforms? By refracting ADB's experiences in managing such projects through the lens of capacity, a set of skills and resources critical for administrative reforms was derived, categorized as either analytical capacity, operational capacity or political capacity. Using cluster analysis, five clusters were identified to represent the interrelationships between the capacities. The study contributes to the literature on evaluation of development aid specifically for administrative reforms. It also hopes to provide implications for how development projects meant to improve administrative systems should be carried out by IFIs and governments.

Download or read book Administrative Reform written by Gerald E. Caiden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Handbook of Administrative Reform written by Jerri Killian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Building the Compensatory State written by Robert F. Durant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary public administration research has marginalized the importance of “taking history seriously.” With few exceptions, little recent scholarship in the field has looked longitudinally (rather than cross-sectionally), contextually, and theoretically over extended time periods at “big questions” in public administration. One such “big question” involves the evolution of American administrative reform and its link since the nation’s founding to American state building. This book addresses this gap by analyzing administrative reform in unprecedented empirical and theoretical ways. In taking a multidisciplinary approach, it incorporates recent developments in cognate research fields in the humanities and social sciences that have been mostly ignored in public administration. It thus challenges existing notions of the nature, scope, and power of the American state and, with these, important aspects of today’s conventional wisdom in public administration. Author Robert F. Durant explores the administrative state in a new light as part of a “compensatory state”—driven, shaped, and amplified since the nation’s founding by a corporate–social science nexus of interests. Arguing that this nexus of interests has contributed to citizen estrangement in the United States, he offers a broad empirical and theoretical understanding of the political economy of administrative reform, its role in state building, and its often paradoxical results. Offering a reconsideration of conventional wisdom in public administration, this book is required reading for all students, scholars, or practitioners of public administration, public policy, and politics.

Download or read book Tradition and Public Administration written by Martin Painter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world. They assess the impact of traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration.

Download or read book The Management of Change in Government written by A.F. Leemans and published by Springer. This book was released on 1976-01-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reforming the African Public Sector Retrospect and Prospects written by Joseph R. A. Ayee and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospectsis an in-depth and wide-ranging review of the available literature on African public sector reforms. It illustrates several differing country experiences to buttress the main observations and conclusions. It adopts a structural/institutional approach which underpins most of the reform efforts on the continent. To contextualize reform of the public sector and understand its processes, dynamics and intricacies, the book examines the state and state capacity building in Africa, especially when there can be no state without an efficient public sector. In addition, the book addresses a number of theories such as the new institutional economics, public choice and new public management, which have in one way or another influenced most of the initiatives implemented under public sector reform in Africa. There is also a survey of the three phases of public sector reform which have emerged and the balance sheet of reform strategies, namely, decentralization, privatization, deregulation, agencification, co-production and public-private partnerships. It concludes by identifying possible alternative approaches such as developing a vigorous public sector ethos and sustained capacity building to promote and enhance the renewal and reconstruction of the African public sector within the context of the New Partnerships for Africa's Development (NEPAD), good governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Download or read book Administrative Management for Development written by International Institute of Administrative Sciences and published by Bruxelles : International Institute of Administrative Sciences. This book was released on 1977 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Compilation of articles on the improvement of public administration for the purposes of economic development - examines the problems arising at regional level, national level and local level, and covers the institutional framework, the organization of development planning, the preparation and training of administrators, budgeting, public finance, programme planning and plan implementation, particularly for the public works sector, etc. References.

Download or read book Nordic Administrative Reforms written by Carsten Greve and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Based on the assessments of administrative executives, the book compares the Nordic countries with the Anglo-Saxon, the Germanic, the Napoleonic and the East European group of countries. The book addresses the following questions: What reform trends are relevant in the public administrations of the Nordic countries? What institutional features characterize the state authorities in these countries? What characterizes the role identity, self-understanding, dominant values, and motivation of administrative executive in the Nordic countries? What characterizes reform processes, trends and content, what is the relevance of different types of management instruments, and what are their perceived effects and the perceived performance of the public administration? The book also examines how the different Nordic countries dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, and how the differences and similarities in their approaches can be explained.

Download or read book Administrative Capacity in the New EU Member States written by Tony Verheijen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews progress made in the development of public management systems capable of meeting European standards in the new member states of the European Union, looking into the people, systems, and service delivery aspects of public management systems. The new member states face considerable challenges-improving fiscal management, building absorption capacity of rapidly increasing levels of EU structural funds, and enhancing economic competitiveness-making essential the building of high-quality public management systems. The study applies existing tools for comparative analysis and benchmarking of public management quality used in the context of the EU. It draws conclusions on why progress has been slow on introducing competitive public managements systems and practices in the new member states. This report proposes an agenda for reform as well as alternatives to traditional approaches to strengthening public management systems.

Download or read book Public Administration and Management written by Unesco and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Conference report and recommendations on the adaptation of public administration to different socio-cultural contexts, particularly in developing countries - discusses the impact of colonial stuctures and bureaucracy on self reliance in Africa (incl. Role of CAFRAD); obstacles to administrative reform in Latin America; central government and local government failures in Turkey; role of UN, etc.; stresses the need for decentralization, codetermination, workers self management. Bibliography and references. Conference held in Tangiers 1982?

Download or read book Public Management Reform written by Christopher Pollitt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Management of Public Service Reform written by Joan Corkery and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reform of public administration to adapt to the pressures and new requirements of an ever changing world has become a major global phenomenon. This study has been produced by the International Institute of Administrative Sciences and the European Centre for Development Policy Management.

Download or read book Administrative Issues in Developing Economies written by Kenneth J. Rothwell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of papers on public administration and management needs in developing countries, stressing the importance of management development programmes and efficient economic administration - covers administrative reform and the application of modern management techniques, the role of management information systems in economic planning and social planning, the role of development aid and technical cooperation, educational administration reform, etc. References.

Download or read book American Administrative Capacity written by M. Ernita Joaquin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume proposes a capacity-centered approach for understanding American bureaucracy. The administrative institutions that made the country a superpower turned out to be fragile under Donald Trump’s presidency. Laboring beneath systematic accusations of deep statism, combined with a market oriented federal administration, bureaucratic capacity manifested its decay in the public health and constitutional cataclysms of 2020, denting America’s global leadership and contributing to its own people’s suffering. The authors combine a historical examination of federal administrative reforms in the backdrop of the recent pandemic and electoral tumult to craft a developmental framework of the ebb and flow of capacity. While reforms, large and small, brought about professionalization and other benefits to federal administration, they also camouflaged a gradual erosion when anti-bureaucratic approaches became entrenched. A sclerotic, brittle condition in the government’s capacity to work efficiently and accountably arose over time, even as administrative power consolidated around the executive. That co-evolutionary dynamic made federal government ripe for the capacity bifurcation, delegitimization, and disinvestment witnessed over the last four years. As the system works out the long-term impacts of such a deconstruction, it also prompts a rethinking of capacity in more durable terms. Calling attention to a more comprehensive appreciation of the dynamics around administrative capacity, this volume argues for Congress, citizens, and the good government community to promote capacity rebuilding initiatives that have resilience at the core. As such, the book will be of interest to citizens, public reformers, civic leaders, scholars and students of public administration, policy, and public affairs.

Download or read book Comparative Administration Change written by B. Guy Peters and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought provoking perspectives on attempts to change government.