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Why Civil Service Reforms Fail

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  • Charles Polidano

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Tactical choices in the design and implementation of civil service reform can determine whether it succeeds or fails. Yet researchers have paid scant attention to tactical issues in recent years. This article considers three such issues: the scope of reform, the role of aid donors, and the leadership of reform. In each area it considers what sort of approach is likely to maximize the chances of success. However, the article seeks to go beyond prescribing lessons, also looking at institutional and other reasons why reformers may be impelled to make the wrong tactical choices.

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  • Charles Polidano, 2001. "Why Civil Service Reforms Fail," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(3), pages 345-361, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:3:y:2001:i:3:p:345-361
    DOI: 10.1080/14616670110050039
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    1. World Bank, 2013. "Ethiopia Public Sector Reform Approach : Building the Developmental State - A Review and Assessment of the Ethiopian Approach to Public Sector Reform," World Bank Publications - Reports 15827, The World Bank Group.
    2. M. Haque, 2013. "Globalization, State Formation, and Reinvention in Public Governance: Exploring the Linkages and Patterns in Southeast Asia," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 13(4), pages 381-396, December.
    3. Rose,Jonathan & Gowthaman,Balachandran, 2015. "Civil service recruitment in Comoros : a case of political clientelism in a decentralized state," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7428, The World Bank.
    4. Wihantoro, Yulian & Lowe, Alan & Cooper, Stuart & Manochin, Melina, 2015. "Bureaucratic reform in post-Asian Crisis Indonesia: The Directorate General of Tax," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 31(C), pages 44-63.
    5. Sarah Lister, 2009. "Changing the Rules? State-Building and Local Government in Afghanistan," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(6), pages 990-1009.
    6. A. Georges L. Romme & Harry van de Loo & Ben Dankbaar, 2022. "How to Control Civil Servants: Designing and Testing a Solution Informed by Game Theory," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-17, April.
    7. Mark Robinson, 2008. "Hybrid States: Globalisation and the Politics of State Capacity," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 56(3), pages 566-583, October.
    8. Lucica Matei & Spyridon Flogaitis (ed.), 2011. "PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE BALKANS - from Weberian bureaucracy to New Public Management," ASsee Online Series, South-Eastern European Administrative Studies – ASsee Online Series, volume 1, number 1, September.
    9. Riccardo Mussari & Denita Cepiku, 2007. "Public administration reform in transition," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(3), pages 353-375, September.
    10. Srivastava, Vivek & Larizza, Marco, 2012. "Working with the grain for reforming the public service : a live example from Sierra Leone," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6152, The World Bank.

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