Download or read book Government of Paper written by Matthew S. Hull and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drawing inspiration from actor-network theory, science studies, and semiotics, this brilliant book makes us completely rethink the workings of bureaucracy as analyzed by Max Weber and James Scott. Matthew Hull demonstrates convincingly how the materiality of signs truly matters for understanding the projects of ‘the state.’” - Katherine Verdery, author of What was Socialism, and What Comes Next? “We are used to studies of roads and rails as central material infrastructure for the making of modern states. But what of records, the reams and reams of paper that inscribe the state-in-making? This brilliant book inquires into the materiality of information in colonial and postcolonial Pakistan. This is a work of signal importance for our understanding of the everyday graphic artifacts of authority.” - Bill Maurer, author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason "This is an excellent and truly exceptional ethnography. Hull presents a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich reading that will be an invaluable resource to scholars in the field of Anthropology and South Asian studies. The author’s focus on bureaucracy, “corruption," writing systems and urban studies (Islamabad) in a post-colonial context makes for a unique ethnographic engagement with contemporary Pakistan. In addition, Hull’s study is a refreshing voice that breaks the mold of current representation of Pakistan through the security studies paradigm." - Kamran Asdar Ali, Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas

Download or read book Bureaucracy in Pakistan written by Charles H. Kennedy and published by Karachi ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This candid and perceptive exposè of Pakistan's complex administrative network traces the steady transition of the bureaucratic èlite from an important constituent in the state to a pervasive power in statecraft.

Download or read book The Civil Service of Pakistan written by Henry Frank Goodnow and published by New Haven, Yale U. P. This book was released on 1964 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pakistan Its Politics and Bureaucracy written by Mustafa Chowdhury and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research on the Bureaucracy of Pakistan written by Ralph J. D. Braibanti and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government of Paper written by Matthew S. Hull and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians, property owners, villagers, imams (prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders. What are the implications of such a thorough paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes? Government of Paper explores this question in the routine yet unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of postcolonial bureaucratic documentation produce a distinctive political economy of paper that shapes how the city is constructed, regulated, and inhabited. Files, maps, petitions, and visiting cards constitute the enduring material infrastructure of more ephemeral classifications, laws, and institutional organizations. Matthew S. Hull develops a fresh approach to state governance as a material practice, explaining why writing practices designed during the colonial era to isolate the government from society have become a means of participation in it.

Download or read book Bureaucracy Management in Pakistan written by Syed Abdul Quddus and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bureaucracy in Pakistan written by Sohail Mahmood and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Civil service reforms in Pakistan written by Abdul Wajid Rana and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective governance is one of the key challenges for both developing and developed countries. Governments, today, are increasingly encountering complex and cross-cutting issues such as economic and financial volatility, internal and external conflicts, growing social tensions, adverse demographic trends, climate change vulnerabilities, weak regulatory regimes, huge infrastructure and service delivery gaps, state and elite capturing and sustaining rule of law. Faced with growing criticism of ineffectiveness of state institutions undermining country’s economic, social and political development because of weakening capacity of public officials to pace up with emerging challenges, there is a renewed interest in reforming the governance and reforming the civil service.

Download or read book Bureaucratica written by Saif R. Khan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty articles on Pakistani bureaucratic system, previously published in the dailies, Muslim, Islamabad, and Pakistan times, Lahore, during 1979-1981.

Download or read book Research on the Bureaucracy of Pakistan a Critique of Sources Conditions and Issues with Appended Documents written by R. Braibanti and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Democracy and Public Administration in Pakistan written by Amna Imam and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of the grass roots public administrative institution of DC & DM in historical context for Pakistan, and its viability for a meaningful democracy and stability of the country. The authors contend that Pakistan‘s democracy to-date lacks firm foundation, as evidenced by the country‘s disintegration in 1971, violence and drugs in the 80s, crime infested communities in the 90s, terrorism in the 2000s, and the current volatile situation in Balochistan and FATA, as well as high crime rate and lacking sense of security among the communities of Pakistan.

Download or read book Bureaucracy in Pakistan written by M. Shahid-ullah and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bureaucratic Elites in Segmented Economic Growth written by Emajuddin Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bureaucratic Elites Political Developments in Pakistan 1947 58 written by Huma Naz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reform of the Public Services in Pakistan written by Sohail Mahmood and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pakistan, after fifty-nine years of existence, is at a historical crossroads. The country faces an acute crisis of governance. Problems with the administrative set-up include poor planning, waste, mismanagement, inefficiency and the absence of a work ethic. Malfunction was the norm not the exception in the bureaucratic structure of the country. Excessive discretionary powers, overlapping of jurisdictions and the absence of clear-cut demarcations of authority and administrative control had weakened government performance. The gap between policy-making and policy-execution was wide partially due to weaknesses in the bureaucracy and the generally low quality of state personnel. Independent observers agree that the overall performance of the GOP was poor or lacklustre at best. The crisis of governance in Pakistan mainly stems from a deficient federal set-up and over centralisation of power in the national government. The World Bank, among others, believes that Pakistan had suffered due to rampant corruption and weak government that had created serious economic imbalances.

Download or read book Bureaucracy Development in Pakistan written by Inayatullah and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of articles emerging from papers read in a seminar on public administration in Pakistan. Themes include the problems of government administrators in developing countries, and the organisation of public services, the working conditions of public servants and the administrative aspects of rural development in pakistan. Short dictionary of terms. References.