Open Government in Authoritarian Regimes

O’Connor, Karl; Janenova, Saltanat; Knox, Colin

doi:10.4000/irpp.325

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“…As one of the interviewees urged, "they tend to hide everything from us (scholars) because they cannot afford to be transparent, even when it comes to non-classified data". These findings are in accordance with findings reported by Kassen,Janenova & Knox,O'Connor,Janenova & Knox and King & Horrocks (3) ) (O'Connor, Janenova, & Knox, 2019 . Similar studies demonstrate that the issue of conducting research in an authoritarian state is quite pervasive.…”

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confidence: 93%

Government involvement in academic research: Nazarbayev University case study

Tengelbay

Vaigorova

Kumar

2021

JES

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This research is a case study of government involvement in academic research. In the case study, we analyzed what factors influence government involvement in academic research. Specifically, we scrutinized different factors such as language, citizenship, networking, age, and gender that could, to some extent, facilitate or complicate research cooperation between academia and government bodies.Though there are other universities with foreign professors, including KIMEP, SDU, KBTU, the number of foreigners in those universities is insignificant in comparison with NU, and the location of NU provides better access than others.We conducted an online survey among NU faculty, as well as several face-to-face interviews. The survey involved 47 respondents. The findings revealed that the most significant factors influencing government involvement in academic research are lack of proficiency in Russian and Kazakh, networking. The implications of this research suggest it is essential to establish particular intermediary institutions between academics and the government in order to facilitate the cooperation and omit unnecessary bureaucratic processes.

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Section: Summary Of the Results And Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Government involvement in academic research: Nazarbayev University case study

Tengelbay

Vaigorova

Kumar

2021

JES

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“…15 In summary, it can be concluded that public management reforms which were introduced in Turkey in the fi rst two decades of the 21 st century have produced mixed results. It is not plausible to claim that the reform climate continues today in Turkey where public reforms are no longer a priority item on the political agenda (Öniş and Yılmaz, 2009;O'Connor et al, 2019;Bozkurt-Güngen, 2018). Th ere are not any signs that the enthusiasm with reforms continues in central institutions and local governments.…”

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Public Management Reforms in Turkey

Demir¹

2021

PAI

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This article focuses on public management reforms in Turkey and how the reform trajectory has changed over the past two decades. Reforms in Turkey represent a mixture of ideas and reform elements that are constantly evolving under the influence of foreign actors, especially the European Union, efforts to respond to global reform trends, and domestic political developments. The article is divided into three parts. The first part gives a brief picture of the political-administrative structure of the country. The second part provides a landscape of the reform initiatives in the last two decades. The third part examines the main challenges Turkey might face in the coming years in terms of implementing reforms and provides a discussion on how they can be addressed.

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“…Oleinik et al (2015) have demonstrated the links between the values and perceptions of administrative reform. O'Connor, Janenova and Knox (2019) have demonstrated that administrative reform initiatives in the region have not generated meaningful administrative reform. By using the lens of policy learning to focus on the bureaucrat beliefs that are being updated, we can begin to understand why.…”

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The craft of public administration in Eurasia

O’Connor

Carmichael

2019

Public Policy and Administration

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In an innovative approach, applied to a region of the world on which research remains in its infancy, this article identifies the dominant administrative reform traditions embedded within the administrative elites responsible for administrative reform in Eurasia. Our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we establish a mechanism for measuring bureaucrat perceptions of administrative reform that may be replicated in other regions, by identifying the extent to which the three dominant Western traditions of public service (traditional public administration, new public management and new public governance) have been embedded in Eurasian societies. The article thereby demonstrates the effectiveness of these turns in public administration to be ‘learned’ and become embedded within the psyche of elite-level bureaucrats in these Eurasian post-Soviet regimes. The article posits that, while members of these elites hold several common governance perceptions, understanding of administrative reform differs markedly between bureaucrats and is broadly aligned with various aspects of the three dominant turns in public administration. Therefore, it is recommended that some rebalancing needs to take place between international/regional public policy interventions and public administration interventions. While public policy interventions are of course required, the administrative foundations upon which they are built (or learned), require greater attention to the needs, skills and attitudes of practitioners.

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Open Government in Authoritarian Regimes

Cited by 32 publications

References 25 publications

Government involvement in academic research: Nazarbayev University case study

Government involvement in academic research: Nazarbayev University case study

Public Management Reforms in Turkey

The craft of public administration in Eurasia

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