Public Administration and the Reform Agenda

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-39
Author(s):  
Christine Shearer
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Reform Agenda

scholarly journals Russia in Global Digital Tax Reform: Together or Apart?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 1731-1745
Author(s):  
Nikolai S. Milogolov ◽  
◽  
Azamat B. Berberov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Global Consensus ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Interim Measure ◽  
Policy Proposals

The goal of this research is to develop policy proposals for a reform of Russian corporate income tax legislation. The paper reviews and analyses international and Russian tax policy context and ongoing reforms that aim to address the challenges of the digital economy. It is shown that different states have been implementing unilateral measures in their respective tax legislation due to the absence of global consensus about coordinated reform. This leads to increasing complexity and uncertainty for digital businesses and tax administrations. Considering that the digital tax reform agenda is highly relevant for Russia for fiscal reasons, several ideas for developing Russian tax rules in this context are proposed, including amendments to the concept of corporate residence, introducing a digital services tax as an interim measure, amending the mechanism of withholding tax on royalties and clarifying the tax characterisation of supplies in digital form. This article was prepared as part of research by state assignment at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

scholarly journals Democratic Backsliding, Populism, and Public Administration

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Michael W Bauer ◽  
Stefan Becker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Issue Area ◽  
State Bureaucracy

Abstract What happens to public administration when populists are elected into government? This article argues that populists seek to realize an anti-pluralist reform agenda, thereby fuelling trends of democratic backsliding. Against this background, the article discusses potential goals and strategies of populist public administration policy and introduces examples of how populists sought to capture (Orbán in Hungary), dismantle (Fujimori in Peru), sabotage (Trump in the United States), and reform (Blocher in Switzerland) the state bureaucracy. In doing so, populists in government aim at structures, resources, personnel, norms, and accountability relationships. The examples suggest that populist public administration policies can have profound impact on policymaking and democracy, underlining the need for a broader research agenda on this issue area.

scholarly journals A Reflection on Small Government

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (0) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Marn J. Cha
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Fifth Republic ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Public Administration Review ◽  
The Subject

This paper discusses the issue of small government in Korea by way of reviewing a recent article on the subject published in Spring, 1492 in the Korean Public Administration Review. The article is by four Korean political scientists led by Dong-Suh Bark. The Korea's Fifth Republic of the 80s under Chun Doo-Whan first broached small government. Largely, to redeem his couptarnished Fifth Republic, Chun streamlined the bureaucracy. This resulted in personnel reduction, consolidation, and the adoption of a zero-base budget. The Sixth Republic under Roh Tae-Woo formed a group to study governmental reform. Nothing much came of it, however, as Roh gave way to pressures resisting change. Corning into power in 1993, Kim Young-Sam, the reform-minded president of the Seventh Republic has put forth small government as a part of his overall reform agenda.

scholarly journals Institutional Challenges of Economic Reforms: Tunisia during Democratic Transition

حِكامة ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 148-164
Author(s):  
Nizar Jouini ◽  
Taoufik Rajhi
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Government Leadership ◽  
Normative Economic ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
Institutional Challenges

This paper focuses on the challenges of economic reform in post-revolution Tunisia. It underlines the importance of a mixed approach between political economy (positive) and normative economic analysis to implement an effective public policy reform agenda. The post-revolution situation underlines the need for a progressive consensual reform strategy to preserve the interests of different groups and overcome political and legislative polarization. Building an effective reform system in Tunisia will mean improving institutional public administration capacities, enhancing government leadership, and building an effective system of coordination, evaluation, and follow up.

Engineers or Lawyers? Institutions and Demand for Higher Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 30-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Natkhov ◽  
L. Polishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Law and public administration schools in Russia vastly exceed in their popularity sciences and engineering. We relate such lopsided demand for higher education to the quality of institutions setting “rules of the game” in economy and society. Cross-country and Russian interregional data indicate the quality of institutions (rule of law, protection of property rights etc.) is negatively associated with the demand for education in law, and positively — in sciences and engineering. More gifted younger people are particularly sensitive to the quality of institutions in choosing their fields of study, and such selection is an important transmission channel between institutions and economic growth.

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