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Title: | Government Failure, Social Capital and the Appropriateness of the New Zealand Model for Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries | Contributor(s): | Wallis, J (author); Dollery, Brian Edward (author) | Publication Date: | 2001 | DOI: | 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00092-9 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10694 | Abstract: | The policy problems posed by a lack of state capacity in developing societies now attract the attention of a growing number of scholars. Both the government failure paradigm, with its "top-down" emphasis, and the social capital theory, with its stress on "bottom-up" approaches, provide analytical frameworks that can be used to comprehend the symptoms of state incapacity reported by the much broader literature on policy implementation. This paper seeks to determine the implications of the government failure and social capital models for policy implementation. More specifically, the paper considers the contractualist approach to public management reform in New Zealand as the epitome of a top-down solution to government failure. It will also evaluate this model from a social capital perspective and suggest ways in which a balanced approach to public sector reform can take into account elements of both paradigms. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | World Development, 29(2), p. 245-263 | Publisher: | Pergamon Press | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1873-5991 0305-750X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 140215 Public Economics- Taxation and Revenue | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 910299 Microeconomics not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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