The Colonial Legacy of Salary Structures in Anglophone Africa

1982 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bennell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Incomes Policy ◽  
Wage Structures

The distribution of personal incomes in contemporary African societies is powerfully influenced by public-sector salary and wage structures. Even where capitalist and hence pro private-enterprise development strategies have been openly pursued, as in Kenya, the public service accounts for over 40 per cent of total employment in the modern sector. Where more statist, quasi-socialist strategies have been abopted, as in Ghana and Tanzania, this percentage rises to over 70. Clearly, then, any discussion of income distribution and the potential rôle of incomes policy hinges on an adequate understanding of the processes that determine remuneration in the public sector. And this in turn requires a comprehensive historical analysis of the political economy of each society – in particular, the process of class formation and the rôle of the state.

The Entrepreneurial State in Action: The Danish Robotics Cluster and the Role of the Public Sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
JULIAN LAMBERTY ◽  
JEPPE NEVERS
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Thought Collective ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Risk Takers ◽  
Market Relations

The question of the role of the state in the creation of competitive clusters and innovation systems has drawn increased attention in recent years. Drawing on Mariana Mazzucato’s concept of “the entrepreneurial state,” this article investigates the role of the public sector in the development of the Danish robotics cluster, a world-leading cluster for production of industrial robots that has developed after the closing of Maersk’s shipyard in the city of Odense. In what ways did public programs and actors contribute to the development of this cluster? In what ways did public programs facilitate entrepreneurs, and when did they function as agents or perhaps even risk-takers? To answer these questions, this article tracks three layers of public agency: the local, the national, and the European. This article concludes that there were crucial initiatives at all three levels and that these initiatives were not coordinated, but nevertheless connected by a certain zeitgeist—the idea of public institutions taking responsibility for the competitiveness of private companies, an idea that blossomed in the period of high globalization from the late 1980s to the 2000s. In other words, what united the efforts of the public sector was not any master plan but an underlying thought collective that made the workings of “the entrepreneurial state” flexible and fit for the unpredictable nature of innovation. Thus, this article argues that industrial policy did not wither away in the age of neoliberalism but changed its form in an increasing complexity of state-market relations.

scholarly journals Introducing New Methods Of Leadership And Fund Management In Public Sector: The Case Of Slovenia

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanka Setnikar-Cankar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Fund Management ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Key Factor

A key factor in efficient operations of public sector units, is not only the establishment of autonomous organisations, but also the promotion of autonomy, professional and financial responsibility as well as supervision in all organisational units in the public sector. It would be normal to expect the direct role of the state to become less important and greater initiative be left to organisational units. With methodical monitoring of public needs, constant evaluation of services, expert management and increasing equal access of citizens to services, the public sector operations could be made more efficient.

The New Benchmarking and Advisory State: The Role of the British Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service in Facilitating Labour—Management Consultation in Public Sector Transformation

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 736-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Stuart ◽  
Miguel Martínez Lucio
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Driven System ◽  
Management Consultation ◽  
Changing Role

The aim of this article is to examine the changing role of the state in a more market-driven system of industrial relations, specifically in terms of the new roles that are being developed with regard to mediation, advisory and arbitration services. It focuses empirically on the role played by the British Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service in facilitating the modernization of public sector employment relations. We show how the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has played a `benchmarking' role that assists the development of more strategic forms of decision-making and cooperation in employment relations change, and identify the challenges of developing such an approach in the context of the shift towards a more decentralized and market-oriented system of public service delivery. In conclusion we assert that there is a new `advisory and benchmarking' state evolving based on a soft-market view of industrial relations, and that this mitigates (but is also in tension with) the harder market view within the state concerned with transforming the public sector.

The limits of contractual order in public sector transacting

Legal Studies ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Vincent-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Internal Markets ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Competitive Tendering ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Role Of The State

Contract is playing an increasingly important part in the restructuring of the public sector in Britain in the 1990s. The direct providing role of the state is being reduced through the ‘contracting out’ of ancillary and core services in the NHS, central and local government, whilst the policy aim of increasing the efficiency of public sector management involves contract in the operation of internal markets, the creation of specialist agencies with clearly defined functions and responsibilities, the devolution of financial responsibility to budget-holding business units operating in internal trading relationships, and the exposure of internal workforces to private sector competition through compulsory competitive tendering (CCT). However, the widespread adoption of a common ‘language of contract’ to describe processes occurring in these different contexts disguises a variety of meanings and functions.

The Legal Framework for Foundations in the Habsburg Monarchy from 1750 to 1918

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-172
Author(s):  
Gabriele Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulation And Supervision ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Law

Foundations, as permanent funds established by a certain legal act, can serve manifold purposes, but often pursue charitable goals. As such, they play an important role for the public good. Therefore, states always had an interest in fostering foundations by providing a pertinent legal framework. In Austria, this topic has not yet been the focus of scholarship. Through this study some light is shed on the implementation of the law on foundations in the Habsburg Monarchy. It focuses on the role of the state and its legal system regarding the regulation and supervision of foundations from 1750 to 1918. This period is characterized by the sovereigns’ endeavor to regulate the position of foundations via extensive legislation. In particular, a system of oversight for foundations was created in order to guarantee the attainment of their charitable goals. In fact, this system prevailed until the end of the 20thcentury.

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