Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20576
Title: Public management reforms in developing countries: Toward a new synthesis
Contributor(s): Zafarullah, Habib M  (author)orcid ; Sarker, Abu Elias (author)
Publication Date: 2016
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20576
Abstract: Many developing countries are gradually moving toward newer public management regimes essentially to make their governmental operations more efficient and effective in response to the demands of economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability. They tend to follow trends and developments in advanced industrialized nations that have relatively successfully embedded methods or techniques which are generally considered organizationally functional, economically viable, socially acceptable and politically correct. However, designing public management systems (PMS) in complete accordance with Western ideas, norms or maxims can be self-defeating, since developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have unique traditions, social-cultural characteristics, political styles and economic arrangements. Eclectic approaches and practices may not be easily absorbed. Yet, there are lessons to be learned from successful reinvention of the governmental wheel elsewhere. Policy transfers in a globalized world support reforms in these countries aspiring toward holistic development using appropriate structures and techniques for sound governance. This chapter, in general, makes a synoptic assessment of the nature of governmental reform in the context of state imperatives for inclusive structures and processional interlinks, and considers some parallels that also inform reform exercises. Apart from investigating diverse PMS models, it explores the usefulness of the emerging model of neo-Weberianism in addressing the pressing administrative/ governance dilemmas confronting the developing world and proposes a synthesized 'model' for inclusiveness, efficiency and effectiveness.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Public Policy and Governance in Bangladesh : Forty years of experience, p. 42-52
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781138657960
9781315621043
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160509 Public Administration
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440708 Public administration
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230299 Government and politics not elsewhere classified
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/225745828
Series Name: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
Series Number : 7
Editor: Editor(s): Nizam Ahmed
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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