Efficiency first ... political education second. Devising governing institutions for emerging polities. Five decades of debate, experimentation and innovation documented in Public Administration and Development and its predecessors
✍ Scribed by Edward Warrington
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-2075
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✦ Synopsis
Under various titles, Public Administration and Development reported on and analysed the governing institutions devised throughout ®ve decades while dependent polities emerged as interdependent sovereignties, either by means of constitutional emancipation from a colonial/ paramount power or through democratic emancipation from a long-established, indigenous but authoritarian regime. The following survey of debate about, experimentation with and innovation in the governing institutions of emerging polities is concerned with discovering which governing institutions received attention from ocials, consultants and scholars; how critical institutional relationships succeeded one another as regimes were transformed; poles of tension in prevailing attitudes towards institutions; recurring themes; and the perceived value, from the point of view of fostering development, of selected institutional characteristics.