Bringing Bureaucrats In

Hassan, Mai

doi:10.1017/9781108858960.002

Regime Threats and State Solutions 2020

DOI: 10.1017/9781108858960.002

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Bringing Bureaucrats In

Mai Hassan

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Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan

Ali

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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Bureaucratic performance varies immensely even within low-capacity states.Politicians and bureaucrats create pockets or networks of effectiveness that allow some departments to perform more efficiently than others. How do these networks develop and how are politicized bureaucratic appointments used to influence performance? Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted in Punjab, Pakistan, this paper argues that politicians and bureaucrats ensure enhanced performance by making legal and extra-legal appointments of hand-picked bureaucrats to key posts. The choice of bureaucrat is made on the basis of carefully curated relationships of patronage, established through work, training, and old school networks. As a result,temporary networks of effectiveness are created but rendered unsustainable by the very patronage relationships that create them, preventing them from evolving into more permanent pockets of effectiveness. More broadly, my argument contributes to debates on intra-state capacity and politicization, establishing a link between patterns of staffing and patterns of governance.

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Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan

Ali

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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