PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)最新文献

{"title":"Competing Frames, Domestic Discretion and Uneven Outcomes: Administrative Reform in Greece under the Crisis","authors":"Calliope Spanou","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3656402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3656402","url":null,"abstract":"In the past nine years, the Greek administration has undergone a wide range of reforms. Did the high ambitions translate into significant change? In order to provide some answers, the paper examines and compares the outcome of administrative reforms that took place in the past years in two core state areas relating to the use of state resources and presenting similar problems: (i) budgeting and fiscal management and (ii) human resources management. Reforms in these areas are assessed in relation to targeted administrative deficiencies. The main research finding is that change has been uneven affecting at different degrees the policy core. The ambitious agenda primarily resulted in the modernisation of policy instruments. New policy frames competed with old ones, sometimes prevailing and sometimes being captured and hollowed out. In fiscal management there is significant change, challenging deeper policy frames and patterns accounting for critical deficiencies. In contrast, in HRM reforms results are rather unambitious. Thus the changes introduced are mostly secondary and do not challenge the core of pre-existing policy arrangements. The paper offers an explanation of these uneven outcomes and questions the conditions of reform sustainability.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132920942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Politics of State Capacity and Development in Africa: Reframing and Researching ‘Pockets of Effectiveness’","authors":"S. Hickey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3467520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3467520","url":null,"abstract":"The role of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs) in driving development is generating renewed interest within development studies and, to an extent, development policy. Existing research on PoEs emphasises that politics plays a leading role in shaping the emergence and sustainability of high-performing public sector organisations. However, the field as yet lacks a clear sense of the conditions under which this happens. This paper sets out the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a new project that seeks to address this problem within the context of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on an alignment of political settlements analysis with critical theories of state power and African politics, the paper argues that PoEs are both shaped by, and help to reproduce, particular forms of politics and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. This means that PoEs can reveal a good deal about how the competing logics of regime survival, state-building and democratisation are playing out in Africa, and the implications for development. The paper proposes a methodological approach for identifying and exploring PoEs and summarises the results of expert surveys undertaken in Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. These surveys resulted in our project focusing mainly on the economic technocracy as the key domain within which PoEs have flourished, particularly in terms of ministries of finance, central banks and revenue authorities, along with some other interesting outliers and underlying processes of state-building. Further papers from this project will include in-depth case studies of these specific PoEs and processes in each country, synthesised country analyses and comparative overviews.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115215356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"La Delegación al Sector Privado en el Ecuador: una comparación jurídica de dos modelos ideológicos (Delegation to the Private Sector in Ecuador: A Legal Comparison of Two Ideological Models)","authors":"Ugo Stefano Stornaiolo Silva","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3867006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3867006","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Spanish Abstract:</b> Dentro de la legislación histórica y reciente en el ámbito del derecho administrativo, existe una institución que ha sido continuamente incluida, aunque también ha sido constantemente moldeada a los intereses y perspectivas ideológicas del poder político que ha estado detrás de su inclusión en el ordenamiento jurídico vigente.<br>Esta institución, que es la delegación al sector privado, ha sido establecida en nuestro país por dos normas, una histórica y una actual, que regulan a la administración pública, y ha tenido vigencia, de manera ininterrumpida, desde la presidencia de Sixto Durán-Ballén, operando no en virtud de su necesidad jurídica, sino más bien en base a aspectos ideológicos propios del modelo adoptado por los gobiernos que impulsaron su inclusión primero en la Ley de Modernización del Estado, y después en el Código Orgánico Administrativo.<br>Por ello, entender la utilidad y la funcionalidad de la delegación al sector privado en consideración de estas circunstancias implica realizar una labor de análisis jurídico, que pondere la propia naturaleza de la norma dentro de su contexto político-económico y de sus circunstancias y contingencias, que marcan no solo una comparación de dos concepciones sobre la misma institución, sino su utilidad política misma.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b>Within the historical and recent legislation in the field of administrative law, there is an institution that has been continuously included, but also constantly molded to the interests and ideological perspectives of the political power behind its inclusion in the legal system.<br><br>This institution, which is duty delegation to the private sector, has been established in Ecuador by two bills, one historical and one current, that regulate the public administration, and has been enforceable, uninterruptedly, since the presidency of Sixto Durán-Ballén, operating not by virtue of its legal necessity, but rather on ideological aspects of the model adopted by the governments that promoted its inclusion, first in the State Modernization Law, and later in the Organic Administrative Code.<br><br>Therefore, understanding the usefulness and functionality of delegation to the private sector in consideration of these circumstances implies carrying out a work of legal analysis, which weighs the very nature of the rule within its political-economic context and its circumstances and contingencies, that mark not only a comparison of two conceptions about the same institution, but of its very political usefulness.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125375528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance Measurement of Social Welfare Organizations in Pakistan","authors":"S. Mehreen, D. Siddiqui","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3397476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3397476","url":null,"abstract":"The paper attempts to measure the output of social welfare organizations in Pakistan and propose improving suggestions. For this purpose, a theoretical model with nine components, namely mission, strategy, processes, people, financial health, organizational infrastructure, people satisfaction, donor satisfaction and client satisfaction, is used and applied to social welfare organizations in Pakistan. The data was collected from a sample size of 70 social welfare organizations working in Pakistan through close ended questionnaire and was analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structured Equation Modeling. The results demonstrate that the relationship of mission with some major contributors of organizational growth is largely ignored in the non-profit sector of Pakistan. However, the correlations of other performance indicators were positive, such as, organizational infrastructure and processes; process and stakeholders’ satisfaction, etc. Hence, this study infers and signifies the eminence of creating performance measurement systems for capacity building of social welfare organizations in Pakistan and, subsequently, channelization of public and private funding.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122093031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Promoting Good Governance in the Thai Civil Service","authors":"Phatcharinporn Sarnthoy","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3459359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3459359","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this study was to:<br><br>1) examine the influence of human resource management practices on good governance in the Thai civil service,<br><br> 2) examine human resource management practices that relate to good governance in the Thai civil service, <br><br>3) understand the casual relationship that HRM practices have towards good governance of government agencies an,<br><br>4) understand the mediation role of ethics management and ethical culture that pass the relationship from HRM practices to good governance in the Thai civil service. <br><br>The instrument for data collection was a 59-item structured questionnaire modeled on a 5-point rating scale. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire items. The reliability index of the instrument was 0.98. The Confirmatory Factor Analysis, path analysis with AMOS, and PROCESS Macro for testing the serial multiple mediators were used in this research. The model of relationship between casual factors and good governance in Thai civil service could be able to explain 74% of variance of good governance. The highest direct effect variables were ethical culture, followed by training and development and law and discipline and the direct effects sizes were 0.55, 0.29 and 0.16 respectively. Recruitment and selection and compensation and rewards revealed no association with good governance. Ethics management and ethical culture were found to significantly and partially mediate the relationship between the training and development to good governance and they also partially mediate the relationship of laws and discipline towards good governance in the Thai civil service.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134620949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance-Linked Incentive Policy for Employees at a Government Organization in Jamaica","authors":"Darcia Roache","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3297931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3297931","url":null,"abstract":"Performance-linked incentives are often used to motivate employees in different organizations but the supporting policy for such incentives seem to be lacking at the government corporation. This paper argues that non-financial incentives should be given precedence over financial incentives to employees at the government organization in Jamaica. <br><br>","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122989459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of the Public Procurement Control System on the Hungarian Public Administration","authors":"G. Nyikos, G. Soós","doi":"10.17573/CEPAR.2018.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17573/CEPAR.2018.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of public procurement and the related controls are a significant issue that public authorities are facing in Hungary. The “fear” of being controlled by state authorities and EU auditors is affecting decisions in public procurement. However, research on the effects of such a system is largely absent. The purpose of the article is to explore the functioning of the control system related to EU funded public procurements and to examine its actual and potential impact on the purchases of public authorities. The method is first an introduction of the features of the control system and then the analysis of data from the relevant bodies in order to see the effect of controls and possible difficulties with the system. The results show that despite the seemingly positive impact on the regularity of procedures, the interference in the decisions of public authorities and the delays caused are problematic. It is therefore suggested that the Hungarian government should consider streamlining the control process such as through checks based on samples or focusing on the most risky procedures. The research is the first academic analysis of data related to public procurement control in Hungary, yet it can already inspire the Hungarian and other governments to review the effectiveness of such procedures and to reduce administrative burdens for public authorities as much as possible.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130504537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Quality of Bureaucracy and Public Sector Performance. Albania’s Case.","authors":"F. Balla","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3744302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3744302","url":null,"abstract":"The public sector performance is increasingly present in research literature. Considered as a result of a complex public management process, it provides the feedback gained through new public decisions that lead towards a performance improvement. The perspective of direct and mutual correlations and determinations between the public sector performance and the quality of bureaucracy is endorsed by studies as well as analyses of important international institutions. Albania is relevant to this point of view when considering the changes recorded in the administrative and public sector reforms. The country’s status related to the European Union represents the most relevant perspective for the current research. The approach of this paper finds its basis in the studies of Evans and Rauch (1999), and other pertinent studies, determining the instruments of evaluating the quality of bureaucracy. The result of this study refers to determining the relation between the quality of bureaucracy and public sector performance. <br><br><br>La performance du secteur public est de plus en plus présente dans la littérature. Considéré comme un résultat d'un processus complexe de gestion publique, il fournit le feedback obtenu grâce à de nouvelles décisions publiques qui mènent vers une amélioration de la performance. La perspective des corrélations mutuelles et des décisions entre la performance du secteur public et la qualité de la bureaucratie est appuyé par des études ainsi que des analyses des institutions internationales importantes. L'Albanie est pertinente à ce point de vue pour les changement enregistrées dans les services administratifs et les réformes du secteur public. Le statut du pays lié à l'Union Européenne représente le point de vue la plus pertinente pour la recherche actuelle. L'approche de cet étude trouve son fondement dans l'étude de Evans et Rauch (1999), et d'autres études pertinentes, déterminant les instruments d'évaluation de la qualité de la bureaucratie. Le résultat de cette étude fait référence à la détermination des rélations entre la qualité de la bureaucratie et la performance du secteur public.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127665077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State Aid in Government Procurement","authors":"Xiaoyong Cao, Jiong Gong, Guoqiang Tian","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3158574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3158574","url":null,"abstract":"We revisit the topic of national favoritism in government procurement in the context of international trade, focusing on the impact of a participation/transition cost difference between domestic and foreign firms. Our public tender model generates two kinds of equilibrium outcomes, where a higher participation cost foreign firm is more aggressive in participation in one kind, but less aggressive in another kind. However, the latter equilibrium dissipates when the difference in the transition costs becomes sufficiently large. Thus a favoritism policy would probably result in unintended consequences in an undesired equilibrium. Some simulation results are provided to quantify the restrictions on the model parameters that eliminate one non-intuitive equilibrium.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133926802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Quiescent Bureaucracy to 'Undocumented Wonder': Explaining the Indian Election Commission's Expanding Mandate","authors":"Amit Ahuja, S. Ostermann","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3131947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3131947","url":null,"abstract":"Public institutions in the developing world are often characterized by institutional capture or decay. Yet, India’s Election Commission has become one of its most powerful regulatory bodies. The Election Commission has overseen the completion of 16 national and 350 state elections since 1952. It is one of the most widely-celebrated and trusted public institutions in India, enjoys substantial powers, and conducts some of the longest elections in the world. We use a process-tracing approach to explain the EC’s surprising expansion of mandate, arguing that in a federal democracy: 1) when institutional constraints are weakened; 2) when state-based actors demand a competent and neutral arbiter; and 3) when entrepreneurial bureaucratic actors take advantage of moments of political opportunity, those aspects of the bureaucracy that can credibly meet these demands are able to successfully expand their powers. Changes in Model Code Implementation and Election Duration attest to the Election Commission’s broader role. The Election Commission’s experience suggests that a weak executive can facilitate the strengthening of state institutions and that, under federalism, state-based electoral forces can produce strong national institutions.","PeriodicalId":201243,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Public Administration (Development) (Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115829611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}