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AbstractIn Nigeria, as elsewhere, the role of the career bureaucracy in public policy making has constituted a subject of conflicting interpretation, practice, and prescription. Although higher public servants have always played a major part in shaping public policy, the extent of their involvement has ebbed and flowed in response to legal, structural, and political changes at the federal, state, and local government levels. In recent years, the exercise of policy making and implementing roles by public administrators has evoked mounting public criticism and top‐level career servants in Nigeria have faced unusually serious challenges to their authority. Moreover, confusion over the proper scope of administrative involvement in policy formulation and execution reached new heights both within and outside the public services following the adoption of elected executive forms of government in 1979.The article traces the shifts in bureaucratic policy‐making roles and relationships which occurred in the First Republic period, under different military regimes, and immediately following the return to civilian rule. The prospect that more fundamental changes will be forthcoming in the nature and extent of administrative involvement in public policy formation and execution is then explored in the context of past and current practice and conventions, key provisions of the 1979 Constitution, and recent social, political, and economic developments. The author concludes that public administrators will continue to be centrally involved in the policy‐making process under present structural arrangements and that a reorientation of the public services away from their prevailing preoccupation with promoting vested interests requires the development of more broadly based political organiza

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030102

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe Egyptian public sector is labouring under a mass of legal controls which are proving an obstacle to its efficient running. A variety of government agencies, as well as the Board of Directors and the General Assembly, are burdening each company with regulations and demands for information. The little latitude thus allowed company managers in deciding upon such essential problems as finance, the size of the labour force and the price of output has had severe effects in decreasing the efficiency of each company and of the sector as a whole. Some dynamic company managers are trying to find a way around the system, but this is having negative efficiency and welfare effects. Examples of the negative effects of the mass of controls on problems such as finance and pricing are given in the article. Attempts at forming joint ventures, in order to escape the oppression of belonging to the state, have been made by some companies, but these have met with union opposition in some cases although the state seems to encourage the reduction in investment outlay which this policy might have. The article develops the analysis of the politico administrative framework of economic activity presented by Ayubi (1982).

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030103

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractA growing awareness among officials in Haiti of the need for public service reforms has resulted in the reorganization and revitalization of the country's Administrative Reform Commission (Commission Administrative). At present there is no uniformity in organization, procedures, regulations or remuneration between the different government agencies. The bureaucrats have little security and the bureaucracy is completely dominated by the executive branch of government. Coupled with this, owing largely to the budgeting system, the public service has developed into virtually two separate services, one dealing with development and the other with recurrent tasks. The number of public servants has doubled in the past decade. The Administrative Reform Commission has identified its priorities including the creation of a unified career service system, a restructuring of the bureaucracy and decentralization. This article comments on the Commission's proposals and the problems of implementing them.

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030104

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe conduct of development administration in Commonwealth Caribbean countries is hindered by weaknesses in government, and, on the basis of many years experience, Dr. Hope points to four approaches to reform which are currently favoured. Changing the nature of political leadership; reasserting the importance of an independent instrumental administration through greater attention to manpower planning, training and staff development; similarly extending the scope of administrative action by achieving a decentralization of authority from political ministers to local professional administators acting with the public; and participatory democracy with a reduced role for professional administration are four approaches with parallels in other parts of the world. The author points, however, to distinctive features in the Caribbean and argues that the small size of the states creates particular problems and challenges.

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030105

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn 1975 the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), the principal administrative agent for American bilateral development assistance, mandated a social analysis component to the project preparation and approval process.1Although 'social soundness analysis' is now a required dimension of project identification and design its presumed positive effects are not yet apparent on the output side. Post project impact evaluations reveal that there continue to be negative social effects from AID'S development efforts, regardless of project type.In the process by which projects are identified, framed, approved, and ultimately implemented, important signals identified by pre‐project social analysis get displaced. This occurs because anticipating social impact is only one of several goals or functions served by pre‐project design analysis. This essay interprets the role of social analysis in the dynamics of project preparation, identifying structures and procedures which attenuate its influe

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030106

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030107

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030108

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030110

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030111

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0271-2075    

DOI:10.1002/pad.4230030112

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY