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The role of gender equality in advancing development Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Chengwei Xu, Assel Mussagulova, Qinrou Zhou
Gender equality and women empowerment are central to academic and policy debates on development. In the spirit of celebrating and reflecting on 75 years of research published by Public Administration and Development (PAD), this article aims to take stock of the journal's contribution to the knowledge base and practice of promoting gender equality. This article reviews research output published in PAD
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Gender discrimination and merit‐based selection: A case study of Mexico Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mariana Chudnovsky, Carmen E. Castañeda Farill
Does the merit‐based selection process help to reduce gender discrimination in public administrations? To answer this question, we conducted an in‐depth case study in Mexico and built two original databases for analysis. First, we measure vertical and horizontal discrimination, and second, we examine merit‐based competitions for access to upper management levels of the Mexican public administration
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NGOs' least‐played role: Bridging between a divided public administration: The case of Yemen Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Moosa Elayah, Hasan Al‐Awami, Wjdan Almatari, Khaldoun AbouAssi
This article examines the bridging role non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) can play between a divided public administration in a conflict‐ridden country. Based on interviews with various stakeholders in Yemen, we argue that NGO might need to mediate between conflicting authorities to effectively carry out their activities. By doing so, they serve as a bridge that could help maintain relations between
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2024-02-12
No abstract is available for this article.
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Sustainable development goals and good governance nexus: Implementation challenges in central Asia Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Colin Knox, Serik Orazgaliyev
The Transforming the World 2030 agenda stresses the interconnectedness and indivisibility of sustainable development goals. This presents a major challenge for authoritarian states, specifically in implementing SDG16: promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, providing justice for all, and building effective and inclusive institutions. Existing research points to good governance as a sine qua non
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Exercising bureaucratic discretion through selective bridging: A response to institutional complexity in Bangladesh Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Shibaab Rahman, Prue Burns, Julie Wolfram Cox, Quamrul Alam
We attempt to reconcile top-down and bottom-up perspectives on bureaucratic discretion to understand how actors ‘caught in the middle’, such as middle level public managers, negotiate conflicting demands to exercise discretion in the Bangladesh public administration. To do this, we employ the institutional logics framework, a theoretical lens that conceptualises how regulative, cultural forces bear
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Institutional hybridisation in Swedish public sector development cooperation Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Jenny Iao-Jörgensen
While the concept of hybridisation (blending of different organisational forms, logics, or identities) in public administration has gained traction, its interplay with principal-agent dynamics, especially within development cooperation, remains underexplored. Recent shifts towards the “whole-of-society” paradigm in Swedish development cooperation introduce complexities in the inter-organisational dynamics
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-12-03
No abstract is available for this article.
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Power dynamics and resource dependence: NGO-government collaboration in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Daniel Hummel, Bevaola Kusumasari
This study examines the collaboration between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the government in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to shed light on their dynamics and fill the existing gaps in the literature. Focusing on financial dependence, legitimization, and other motivating factors, this study explores the motivations behind NGO–government collaboration and their practical implications. The utilization
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To innovate or not—Exploring individual antecedents of innovative thinking among Indian bureaucrats Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Girish Balasubramanian, Ram Kumar Kakani, Mohd Shadab Danish
One way for a developing country to quickly meet the socio-economic standards of the developed world is to seamlessly integrate science and technology in prudent public policymaking that enables such standards. We study the antecedents of innovative thinking among public administrators through the ordered logit model. Data was collected from 218 public administrative leaders. Innovative thinking as
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-10-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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To know is to act? Revisiting the impact of government transparency on corruption Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Sabina Schnell
Transparency is expected to reduce corruption by enabling the public to uncover it and thus hold officials accountable. This assumes citizens care about corruption and have mechanisms for enacting accountability. Yet, paradoxically, transparency has been prescribed as a cure against corruption precisely in contexts where such mechanisms are weak. This article integrates research from different disciplines
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Exploring service-providing non-governmental organization perceptions of shifting civic space in Ghana: Impacts of government and international actors Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Sandy Zook, Kelly Ann Krawczyk, Franklin Oduro
Civil society space is constantly shifting, either negatively (e.g., shrinking, narrowing) or positively (e.g., expanding). These shifts are predominantly attributed to actions by central government actors, such as the implementation and enforcement of laws. Emergent work, however, also recognizes that in the context of the Global South, the international community can take actions to shrink or expand
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Unpacking ‘public silence’: Civil society activism under authoritarian rule in Ethiopia Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Camille Louise Pellerin
How do civil society organisations (CSOs) and the state interact in non-democratic settings? Non-democratic regimes often meet civil society activism with repression, however, on an every-day basis contestation and control take more diverse forms. To capture how CSOs bargain with and contest state power, as well as how states police CSOs, this article draws on the case of Ethiopia (1991–2018). It analyses
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-08-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Using foreign aid contracts to pursue participatory approaches to development within large foreign aid agencies Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Amy Beck Harris
Participatory development has become, ‘development orthodoxy’, receiving widespread proclamations of support from foreign aid agencies. Participatory development engages international development beneficiaries in making decisions about project activity selection and design. Yet, many foreign aid donors deliver project assistance through top-down, highly controlled systems that may constrain the flexibility
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A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Maria van der Harst, Dirk-Jan Koch, Marieke van den Brink
There is widespread recognition among scholars, international aid providers and evaluators of the need to take into account the unintended outcomes of international development efforts. Practitioners have also signed on to charters that promise they will do their utmost best to ‘do no harm’. This article focusses on the often overlooked unintended gender effects. A rigorous literature review was conducted
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Pre-requisites for infrastructure public-private partnerships in oil-exporting countries: The case of Saudi Arabia Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Mhamed Biygautane
The evolution of public-private partnerships (PPPs) within oil-exporting states has not attracted sufficient attention from PPP scholars. Particularly, the Gulf-Cooperation Council (GCC) states such as Saudi Arabia which has had a prolonged history of state-led economic development and public funding of infrastructure projects is an interesting empirical context to explore how PPPs can become an instrument
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Can tax agents support tax compliance in low-income countries? Evidence from Uganda Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Giovanni Occhiali, Fredrick Kalyango
Tax agents' role in ensuring or deterring compliance with tax obligations has received relatively little attention in the literature. Some evidence has emerged indicating when agents improve (or decrease) compliance, and why taxpayers employ their services. However, most existing studies have focused on high- or upper-middle-income countries. As the tax systems of low-income countries present a unique
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“Nobody wants to be a dead hero”: Coping with precarity at the frontlines of the Brazilian and Mexican pandemic response Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Gabriela Lotta, Fernando Nieto-Morales, Rik Peeters
This study analyzes how adverse working conditions shape frontline workers' behavioral and cognitive coping mechanisms. It builds on the idea of frontline work as a precarious profession and explores how workers deal with associated challenges. Specifically, evidence is provided for factors associated with alienative commitment among frontline workers. We do so against the background of the 2020–2021
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-04-28
No abstract is available for this article.
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Participatory governance and the capacity to engage: A systems lens Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Elmé Vivier, Diana Sanchez-Betancourt
Effective local participatory governance depends on government responsiveness. Drawing insights from empirical research in a large South African city, we show how inadequate integration of institutional platforms for community participation into the wider participatory system undermines this capacity. While much of the participatory governance literature considers tools, norms and the experiences of
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-02-04
No abstract is available for this article.
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Subnational government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: Expectations, realities and lessons for the future Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Paul Smoke, Mehmet Serkan Tosun, Serdar Yilmaz
Although national government and international actor responses to the Covid-19 pandemic have been very much in the public eye, the subnational government role has received less attention. Certain pandemic impacts were universal, but the mix and relative severity differed across countries, The actions taken had to reflect these variations, as well as to reflect country socio-economic, fiscal, institutional
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Civil society and democratization: The role of service-providing organizations amid closing civic spaces Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Alisa Moldavanova, Tamaki Onishi, Stefan Toepler
This article argues that current democracy promotion strategies relying on rights-claiming advocacy NGOs are falling short of their democratization goals, as authoritarian regimes are closing the space through restrictions on the NGOs that attempt to carry them out. In response, we suggest a reexamination of earlier approaches to involving civil society in democratization efforts by shifting the focus
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Micro models of COVID 19 pandemic governance: Reflections on the strategies taken by two states in India Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Roma Ranu Dash, Anupama AR
Since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, governments across the world including India, a South-Asian country is busy ‘strategizing’, ‘managing’ ‘containing’ the crisis to restrict its spread. But given the vastness and diversity of the Indian territory, one pan Indian model of is not possible and the states have been working in consonance with the centre in a matter of ‘cooperative federalism’
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Governance response during COVID-19 and political affirmative action: Evidence from local governments in India Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Vivek Pandey, Ankita Rathi, Deepak Kumar
A great deal of work argues that the entry of women into public spaces can promote political and institutional change. The COVID-19 provides an opportunity to investigate whether and under what conditions women's political representation in rural local governments deliver effective local governance? Drawing from two rounds of data collected in 174 local governments and 1051 households in three Indian
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Democratization from below: Civil society in Tajikistan Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Julie Fisher Melton
A decade ago an exploration of civil society in South Africa, Tajikistan and Argentina highlighted its role in supporting democratization. Despite continuing global autocratic trends since then, South Africa and Argentina have remained vibrant democracies with strong civil societies. Tajikistan, in contrast, remains autocratic, and civil society has apparently weakened in recent years. However, at
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Asserting integrity in Mexico's civic sector Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Sharon F. Lean, Evan Bitzarakis
In societies where civic space is closing, integrity in the civic sector is critical for its sustainability. Where state regulatory frameworks are inadequate, or worse, manipulative, self-regulation can help defend the sector's integrity and strengthen the ability of civic associations to serve the public and contribute to democracy. This paper describes the strategic role in self-regulation of a particular
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-12-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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Information for climate finance accountability regimes: Proposed framework and case study of the Green Climate Fund Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Rishi Basak, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Katrien J. A. M. Termeer
This paper addresses the role performance information plays in the accountability regimes of international climate change financing institutions and how this can be improved. It has been argued that the quality of the performance information of projects financed by public and private sources, as well as how that information is used, influences decisions made by the various actors in the accountability
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Regime threats and state solutions. Bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya. By Hassan Mai, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). 2020. pp. 309. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108858960 Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Guillaume Beaud
CONFLICT OF INTEREST The author declares no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and publication of this article.
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Personal privacy VS. public safety: A hybrid model of the use of smart city solutions in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Sergey A. Revyakin
Technological advancements and big data have brought many improvements to smart city infrastructure. During the COVID-19 outbreak, smart city technologies were considered one of the most effective means of fighting the pandemic. The use of technology, however, implies collecting, processing personal data, and making the collected data publicly available which may violate privacy. While some countries
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-09-30
No abstract is available for this article.
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Collective sensemaking within institutions: Control of the COVID-19 epidemic in Vietnam Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Chuong H. Pham, Thang V. Nguyen, Thang N. Bach, Canh Q. Le, Hung V. Nguyen
How people make initial and collective sense under crises remains unanswered. This paper addresses this question using the control of COVID-19 in Vietnam as a case study. Our results suggest that sensemaking under crises is influenced by an institutional propensity for prevention that has developed gradually over time. Local governments play a vital role in fostering collective sensemaking which enables
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Civil society organizations and the prevention of mass atrocities: Perspectives from south Sudan Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Susan Appe, Nadia Rubaii, Kerry Whigham
Nowhere is the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in development and democratization more critical than in countries at high risk of mass atrocities. In this article, we examine the actual and potential role of development CSOs in the prevention of mass atrocities based on an analysis of 302 CSOs in South Sudan. The article examines if and how service-providing CSOs frame their work as contributing
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Fifty years of capacity building: Taking stock and moving research forward1 Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Kablan P. Kacou, Lavagnon A. Ika, Lauchlan T. Munro
This paper assesses the literature on “capacity building” through a systematic literature review. Taking concepts as the ontological building blocks of theories, we ask: what is known about the evolution of capacity building as a concept and what can that history tell us about its strengths and weaknesses? To this end, we dig into the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of capacity building. Through
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Uncivil society and social policies in Brazil: The backlash in the gender, sexual, and reproductive rights and ethnic and racial relations fields Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Catarina Ianni Segatto, Mario Aquino Alves, Andrea Pineda
This paper analyzes how dynamics between Brazil's right-wing populist government and civil and uncivil organizations affected the role of civil organizations, especially rights-based ones, and Brazil's democratization process. These dynamics contributed to stripping policies of their progressive nature and rejecting the values of diversity, freedom, and equality. Our analysis relies on the inhabited
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The role of local governments in South Korea's COVID-19 response Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Yunji Kim, Yeong Ah Jeong
Research on COVID-19 responses has largely focused on national governments. Meanwhile, the crisis management literature has noted that such “transboundary crises” require collaborative responses. What role can local governments play? How do citizen perceptions matter? We look for answers in South Korea that has been considered a model case for managing COVID-19. We use data from policy briefs, news
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Decentralization: A handicap in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic? The response of the regional governments in Spain Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Mikel Erkoreka, Josu Hernando-Pérez
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an ultimate testing ground for evaluating the resilience and effectiveness of federal and decentralized systems. The article analyses how the Spanish asymmetrical system of decentralization has responded to the pandemic, focusing on the management developed by the sub-central governments (Autonomous Communities) during the first two waves of the pandemic in 2020.
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Hybridisation of institutional logics and civil society organisations' advocacy in Kenya Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Emmanuel Kumi, Tara Saharan
Managerialist logic has become dominant in development policy and practice. However, in recent years, the Dutch government is seeking to adopt social transformation approaches to development interventions. The implementation of social transformation ideas takes place in an environment dominated by managerialism. However, our understanding of how the logic of social transformation and managerialism
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Can service providing NGOs build democracy? Five contingent features Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Catherine E. Herrold, Khaldoun AbouAssi
This article studies the role of service providing NGOs in the Middle East in promoting democracy. Challenging the assumption that service providing NGOs are apolitical, the authors argue that service providing NGOs play important roles in promoting democracy. They do so by serving as public arenas, or spaces in which members and beneficiaries practice democratic habits such as discussion and debate
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Revisiting the role of civic organizations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan: Confidence, membership, and democratic practice Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, Christopher Witko
In many emerging and authoritarian countries, civil society organizations that focus on political or sensitive policy issues are being cracked down upon, while service-oriented ones are given a relatively greater ability to operate. What might the consequence of this be for democratic practice given the important role civic organizations play in this process? We examine this question by considering
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-05-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Indulgent citizens: Bribery in Mexico's bureaucratic procedures Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Carlos Moreno-Jaimes
This article offers evidence of the embedded nature of bribery in Mexico. Drawing on three theoretical frameworks that deviate from standard individualistic rational-choice approaches, the paper examines a shared assertion: systemic corruption is a regime so deeply engrained in social relationships and norms that prevents people from attributing a moral connotation to their behavior. Based on individual-level
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The impacts of marketization on international aid: Transforming relationships among USAID vendors Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Carol Brunt, John Casey
The article outlines changing US government strategies in response to growing marketization of international aid and development. As private sector US government vendors, the active, purposive role of for-profit firms in aid distribution is difficult to appreciate from only an exploration of funding awards. The literature identifies multiple influences on vendor relationships between NGOs and for-profit
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The perils of a bureaucratic fad in Africa: Examining the effects of the agencification of the state apparatus in Gabon Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Gyldas A. Ofoulhast-Othamot
The paradigmatic ascent of the new public management (NPM) doctrine in the 1980s was a joyful moment for advocates of market-led public sector reforms. Four decades later, following disappointing results, the NPM is no longer dominant. Pending the emergence of a new leading paradigm, however, NPM-inspired reforms are still being pursued in several nations worldwide. The central African nation of Gabon
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The case for metagovernance: The promises and pitfalls of multisectoral nutrition service delivery structures in low- and middle-income countries Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Ashley Fox, Jennie R. Law, Keith Baker
While cross-sector collaborations can create effective governance mechanisms for multi-sectoral issues, little attention has been paid to how these arrangements operate in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where state capacity is weak and the international donor sector is influential. A case study of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) collaborative governance platform in Senegal is presented to
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Domestic resource mobilisation strategies of national non-governmental organisations in Ghana Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Emmanuel Kumi
National non-governmental organisations (NNGOs) in Ghana are confronted with declining external donor funding, arising in part from the country's graduation to a lower–middle-income status, but also more complex changes in donor funding modalities. This presents incentives the for mobilisation of alternative domestic resources to ensure organisational sustainability. Drawing on 62 qualitative interviews
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2022-02-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-12-12
No abstract is available for this article.
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The perpetuation of bribery–prone relationships: A study from Vietnamese public officials Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Thang V. Nguyen, Minh H. Doan, Nhung H. Tran
Studies of bribery have not adequately considered individual psychological processes in the development of bribery–prone relationships. We propose an integration of moral disengagement and the norm of reciprocity as a theoretical lens to explain the evolvement of bribery–prone relationships. Based on qualitative data from a sample of government officials in Vietnam, we found that public officials normally
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Relationship between public sector reforms and culture: The implementation of NPM-related performance management reforms in a collectivist and risk averse culture Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Lhawang Ugyel
As performance management reforms gain traction worldwide, their implementation, however, has demonstrated mixed results. This trend is visible in the manner countries have adopted and implemented New Public Management (NPM)-related public sector reforms that are based on the neo-classical and business models of organisation and management. Experiences in various countries demonstrate that the inherent
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Welfare state and the social economy in compressed development: Self-sufficiency organizations in South Korea Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Sang Hun Lim
Current studies tend to theorize the relationship between the social economy (SE) and social policy based on the experiences of Western welfare states, missing the evolution of social economy organizations (SEOs) in later developing, transitional welfare states. This article fills this gap by examining self-sufficiency organizations in South Korea, which originated from urban SEOs but became agents
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-12-09
No abstract is available for this article.
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Accountability and transparency in emerging countries: Governance, democratic currents and change Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Ramanie Samaratunge, Quamrul Alam
Accountability and transparency are evolving challenges to governance and public administration in a highly complex global governance system. It is a difficult challenge in the emerging economies due to a significant deficit in democratic policy and institutional effectiveness. Few will discount the seemingly insurmountable challenges emerging economies face, whether these be economic, social inequality
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Barriers to transparency in Bhutan's public administration: A new typology of opacity Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Bertrand Venard, Kezang Tshering
In democratic emerging countries, transparency can play an important role in reducing corruption, but only if certain barriers are overcome. This investigation contributes to transparency theory by studying the barriers to transparency and proposing a typology consisting of five barriers that lead to opacity. With focus on the public administration tasked to control corruption in the mining sector
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Information resolution and subnational capital markets Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 George M. Guess
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Isomorphic dynamics in national action plans on antimicrobial resistance Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Olivier Rubin, Louise Munkholm
The article investigates isomorphic dynamics in the development and implementation of national action plans (NAPs) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) following the World Health Assembly's adoption of a Global Action Plan on AMR in 2015. Through a nested approach, we conduct a quantitative cross-country analysis of this policy process with particular emphasis on form (the NAP design) and function (their
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Issue Information Public Administration and Development (IF 1.854) Pub Date : 2021-08-26
No abstract is available for this article.