Legislative Oversight and Policy-Reforms in “Unsettled” Political Contexts of Public Administration

Onyango, Gedion

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“…Case studies on local governance and urban politics in Africa have extensively informed the essence of citizen participation in public accountability, social equity, fairness, and representation (see Bisong, 2022;Onyango, 2020). However, these conventional or structural efforts may also need to tap into emerging DHR opportunities in the ongoing technological transformation through social media and other digital technologies (see Botlhale & Dick-Sagoe, 2023;Ondiek & Onyango, 2023).…”

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“…In the human rights scholarship concerning African countries, much has been written concerning the role of police in exercising human rights abuses than, say, the civil service. Even so, a democratic administration can hardly co‐exist with an autocratically run police service, a thoroughly corrupt judiciary, and a state‐captured legislature, as are common in most African settings (see Akinlabi, 2022; Hope, 2023; Onyango, 2020). This way, DHR‐PA presents an integrative way of combining the complex mix of PSR approaches and related state reforms akin to human rights and democracy in Africa and similar political contexts.…”

Section: Literature Review: African Public Administration and Its Dem...mentioning

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“…These values become more explicit in Norman‐Major's (2022) additional values of ethics, mainly democratic participation and engagement values, such as transparency, cultural competence, and inclusion. Social equity is also essentially political contestations that are actualized through more representative, accountable, and responsive structures like a decentralized participatory governance arrangement (Onyango, 2020; Onyango & Hyden, 2021). The political approach mainly promotes a pluralistic society and democratic governing systems.…”

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DHR‐PA—Democracy and human rights in public administration in Africa

Onyango

2024

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While public administration research has traditionally paid profound attention to democratic values in government‐citizen relations, public institutions are still wrestling with entrenching human rights norms today. This article's Democracy and Human Rights in Public Administration (DHR‐PA) perspective offers a view that a human rights‐anchored reforms agenda may assist with setting the much‐needed tone for realizing democratic norms in African administrative contexts where society is still dealing with extreme forms of human rights abuses. It operationalizes institutional nuances and qualities of democratic and human rights values using Afrobarometer's Round 9 dataset for Namibia, Kenya, and Nigeria. Results show that human rights proclivities of African public administration remain subtle and nebulous despite more targeted DHR‐PA reforms and the creation of institutions like human rights commissions and administrative justice agencies. Overall, for democracy to work, African public administration must acquire and entrench human rights norms and values in its engagements with citizens.Related ArticlesKahn‐Nisser, Sara. 2018. “Constructive Criticism: Shaming, Incentives, and Human Rights Reforms.” Politics & Policy 46(1): 58–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12240.Zavala de Alba, Luis Eduardo. 2012. “Toward an International Implementation of Public Policies in Human Rights: A Necessary Step in Every Democratization Process for Advancements in Economic and Social Rights.” Politics & Policy 40(5): 783–801. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2012.00385.x.Nchofoung, Tii, Simplice Asongu, Vanessa Tchamyou, and Ofeh Edoh. 2022. “Gender, Political Inclusion, and Democracy in Africa: Some Empirical Evidence.” Politics & Policy 51(1): 137–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12505.

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“…Dalam konsep trias politika, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia (DPR RI) berperan sebagai lembaga legislatif. Dalam perspektif lingkungan memandang legislatif sebagai institusi politik, yang agenda utamanya tetap mewakili secara politik, memajukan, dan memproyeksikan kepentingan politik kelompok (Onyango, 2020). DPR RI sebagai lembaga legislatif memiliki fungsi yaitu merancang undangundang dan kebijakan, melakukan pengawasan terkait pelaksanaan undang-undang yang dilakukan pemerintah sebagai lembaga eksekutif.…”

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Peran Pengawasan Komisi IX DPR RI Dalam Kebijakan Jaminan Sosial Pekerja Migran Indonesia

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Indonesian Migrant Workers are every Indonesian citizen who will, are currently, or have done work for wages outside the territory of the Republic of Indonesia, this study was conducted to analyze and determine the role of Supervision of Commission IX of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia in the Social Security Policy of Indonesian Migrant Workers. This research is a research study using literature which is analyzed from various existing references and processed research materials on the policy of migrant workers in Indonesia related to the authority of the DPR in the supervisory function. The supervisory role carried out by Commission IX of the DPR RI in this regard is quite good and significant in its achievement. However, it has not been said to be optimal, because the problems related to the governance of the implementation of social security for Indonesian migrant workers which were discussed by the Minister of Manpower in a working meeting with Commission IX of the DPR RI, have not been fully resolved in terms of supervision carried out by Commission IX of the DPR. RI.

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“…Developing countries provide greater variation in traditionally studied independent variables. For instance, the developing world offers greater diversity in legislative oversight arrangements, yielding papers like Onyango's (2020) exploration of legislative oversight in Kenya. This variation can help the field of public administration to understand whether the relationships between important independent and dependent variables are conditioned by context, and in what ways they might be.…”

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An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries

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Hassan

Honig³

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Developing nations demand a different scholarly approach in the field of public administration. We advance an agenda for research that stands on four pillars. First, in the absence of easily accessible data scholars of developing world public administration must assemble it for themselves. Second, building and testing theory plays a paramount role because researchers face limited information. Third, in developing countries, multi‐national and non‐governmental organizations are often crucial and must be considered in studying public administration. Fourth, given the novelties and ambiguities researchers face, qualitative information must be integrated throughout the research process. Our article—and the articles in this volume—constitute a call for developing country research to contribute to the study of public administration writ large, informing our understanding of both developing and developed states.

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Legislative Oversight and Policy-Reforms in “Unsettled” Political Contexts of Public Administration

Cited by 18 publications

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DHR‐PA—Democracy and human rights in public administration in Africa

DHR‐PA—Democracy and human rights in public administration in Africa

Peran Pengawasan Komisi IX DPR RI Dalam Kebijakan Jaminan Sosial Pekerja Migran Indonesia

An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries

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