Volume 23, Issue 4: New Forms of Public Administration
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Gender and Administration
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary Public administration in development has been a poor instrument for implementing gender policies. Rural development administration in particular has tended to be indifferently accountable to female ‘publics’ in ... -
Introduction
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Public Sector Organization: Where next?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary This paper is about the three major neo?liberal innovations in public sector organization of the 1980s: ‘regulatory’ agencies to eliminate deviant behaviour generated by market failure; the mechanisms for contracting ... -
The Self?Deceiving State
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary While change accelerates in rural conditions in the South, professionalism and bureaucracy are buffered against change. In their top?down mode they produce and promote standard programmes, packages and technologies. ... -
How to make ‘Street Level’ Bureaucracies Work Better: India and Korea
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary The ‘new economics of organization’, with its picture of bureaucracies as aggregates of dyadic contracts between ‘principals’ and ‘agents’, finds it difficult to explain why departments of police, education, health, ... -
Structures and Networks in the British Health Service Reforms
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary The current British health service reforms are an example of public service reorganization based on ‘public choice’ theoretical assumptions. This article examines the logic of these reforms, considered as a model ... -
Competition and Pluralism in Public Bureaucracies
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary The use of structured competition for resources as a way of improving the performance of public sector agencies is relatively new and has so far been confined mainly to industrial countries. The type of competition ... -
NGOs: The Case of RDRS in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary This article analyses the structure and organization of RDRS, one of the largest rural development NGOs in Bangladesh. RDRS's Comprehensive Project works with 120,000 households, through small groups of about 15, ... -
Towards a Flexible State
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1992)Summary This article considers innovations in public service organization in the light of recent changes in corporate organization. It argues that many criticisms of the traditional state are criticisms of a mechanical ...
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