The Management of the Public Sector : Reshaping a New Public Sector in the Context of Development , Technology and Competitiveness : The Possible Challenges for Developing Countries in Terms of the Political Economy of Public Policies

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Anis Mahomed Karodia
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Development Technology

Accounting Reforms for Accountable Public Sector Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Chitra Sriyani De Silva Lokuwaduge ◽  
Keshara M. De Silva Godage
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Sector Accounting

Accounting reforms in the public sector have become one of the most debated aspects of the public sector financial management during the last three decades. Following the steps of developed countries around the globe, Sri Lanka as a developing country made initiatives to adopt international public sector accounting standards (IPSAS). The purpose of this study is to analyse the progress and the challenges they face in adopting IPSAS as a new public management (NPM) reform in Sri Lanka to enhance public sector accountability. Public sector accounting reforms in the developing countries in Asia is relatively under researched. Using the NPM concept, this study attempts to fill this gap. This chapter argues that even though Sri Lanka has initiated the move towards adopting IPSAS, developing countries face practical problems in adopting reforms due to their contextual factors such as limited institutional capacity and resources, high political involvements in decision-making, and high informality.

scholarly journals Condições para avaliação de resultados em políticas públicas: um debate sobre o papel da institucionalidade

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-447
Author(s):  
Lucia de Fatima Nascimento de Queiroz ◽  
Mauro Guilherme Maidana Capelari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Outcomes Evaluation ◽  
The Subject

Abstract The goals of this analysis are (i) to offer elements of reflection to the actors who design and implement public policies; (ii) to keep the debate on outcomes evaluation alight; (iii) to contribute toward integrating the debate on evaluation to the complexity of actions in the public sector. This theoretical essay researched works published on the subject from 1979 to 2019. The investigation of the approaches offered by the selected authors allowed identifying variables that are relevant to the analysis of public policies. The variables are expressed in the influences of institutional trajectories, actors, and organizational context. The analysis brings the following concluions: (i) the link between institutionality and the capacity to conduct results evaluations in public policies deserves attention in future studies; (ii) the debate on the topic can be strengthened by analyses that consider not only the decisions adopted, but also the rules, norms and strategies that define the political-institutional scene in which public policies are implemented.

scholarly journals A Loosening Grip: Why Do Autocracies Engage in the Neoliberalization of Their Welfare Sectors?

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-164
Author(s):  
Ilia Viatkin ◽  
Kristina Komarova
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives

Despite the wealth of studies on neoliberalism, research on why authoritarian states engage in processes of neoliberalization remains scarce. Therefore, our article seeks to explore why autocracies use neoliberal power practices, which, as suggested by Foucauldian governmentality approach to neoliberalism, are understood as governance techniques aimed primarily at disciplining and controlling populations through promoting the free market as a key form of societal organization. Empirically, these power practices can manifest in a state’s withdrawal from the provision of welfare services. However, scholars have argued that control over the public sector is essential to the maintenance of authoritarian regimes, and hence, governments must have compelling reasons to opt for its neoliberalization. In this study, we employ three mutually nonexclusive theoretical perspectives that suggest incentives that may motivate autocrats to retreat from the welfare sector; these are the authoritarian legitimation, authoritarian modernization, and political economy perspectives. By means of a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, we tested the foregoing theories on a sample of 42 autocracies active during 1980–2005. The results revealed that authoritarian modernization theory has the highest explanatory capacity, as it identifies two distinct pathways to public sector neoliberalization—internal and external policy considerations or one of the two—while the political economy perspective was an important theoretical concern in several cases. Overall, our paper contributes to research on the governmentality approach to neoliberalism and serves as a departure point for further investigations into neoliberal authoritarianism.

Exploring the New Public Management (NPM)-Based Reforms in the Public Sector Accounting

2016 ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chitra Sriyani De Silva Lokuwaduge
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Resource Dependence Theory ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Sector Accounting

This Chapter aims to explore the process of adopting International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) as a New Public Management (NPM) based reform in Sri Lanka as a developing country. Based on institutional theory and resource dependence theory, framework was developed to highlight the importance of reforms and of changes in the area of public sector accounting specifically during the last three decades. It shows the extent to which Sri Lankan public sector has adopted IPSAS based accounting reforms and the limitations of adopting these standards in developing countries. This chapter argues that adopting reforms in developing countries is problematic due to limited resources and concludes that, significant changes towards adoption of IPSAS and implementing some of the reform ideas has taken place during the last decade. Relatively little is known about the NPM-based reforms in public sector accounting practices in developing countries. This is an attempt to fill this gap.

Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley L. Winer ◽  
Walter Hettich
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Median Voter ◽  
Collective Choice ◽  
Voter Model ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Median Voter Model ◽  
Key Issues

The article provides an outline of the economics of the public sector and of its structure when collective choice is regarded as an essential component of the analysis. It identifies the key issues that must be faced by political scientists and economists who insist that collective institutions cannot be ignored in research on taxation and public budgets. It also reviews various alternatives to the median voter model; these alternatives are frameworks that interpret public policies as equilibrium outcomes in a multidimensional setting.

scholarly journals Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey B Mulligan ◽  
Ricard Gil ◽  
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Policy Preference ◽  
The Political ◽  
Voting Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Preference Intensity ◽  
Enhance Efficiency

Estimates of democracy's effect on the public sector are obtained from comparisons of 142 countries over the years 1960–90. Based on three tenets of voting theory – that voting mutes policy preference intensity, political power is equally distributed in democracies, and the form of voting processes is important—we expect democracy to affect policies that redistribute, or economically favor the political leadership, or enhance efficiency. We do not find such differences. Instead democracy is correlated with policies that limit competition for public office. Alternative modeling approaches emphasize the degree of competition, and deemphasize the form or even existence of voting processes.

All Shook Up?

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Autonomy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Dominant Classes

The Political Economy and Development of India (PEDI) outlined highly influential theories of both the Indian state and its bureaucracy. Professionals within the public sector were one of Bardhan’s three competing dominant classes, yet he was also clear that the state was an autonomous actor distinct from the rent-seeking officials who populated its lower ranks. Three decades later, economic reforms have ostensibly challenged the public sector’s economic, ideological, and policy dominance. This chapter argues that the Indian system remains more statist—and correspondingly less ‘pro-business’—than many scholarly interpretations today allow. Nonetheless, elite public sector professionals have become fragmented that challenge their coherence as a class, while new obstacles to effective state autonomy have arisen from the nexus between politicians and the petty bureaucracy.

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