Trends in development administration: The continuing challenge to the efficay of the post‐colonial state in the third world

Luke, David Fasholé

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“…Much can be said, therefore, in favour of experimenting with techniques of decentralization of decision-making. This has been a common feature of the newly industrializing countries: they have allowed "key state actors and bureaucracies to perform as economic entrepreneurs" (Luke 1986). This sort of flexibility and freedom cannot be exercised without the appropriate framework of participation and accountability, but there have been many proposals that look promising.…”

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Governance Through Social Learning

Paquet¹

1999

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Governance is about guiding: it is the process whereby an organization steers itself. Studying governance means probing the distribution of rights, obligations, and power that underpins organizations and social systems; understanding how they co-ordinate their parallel activities and maintain their coherence; exploring the sources of dysfunction and lacklustre performance; and suggesting ways to redesign organizations whose governance is in need of repair. Governance also has to do with the complex ways in which the private, public, and civic sectors co-ordinate their activities, with the manner in which citizens produce governance through their active participation in a democratic society, and with the instruments and processes required to ensure good and effective stewardship.This series welcomes a range of contributions -from conceptual and theoretical reflections, ethnographic and case studies, and proceedings of conferences and symposia to works of a very practical nature -that deal with particular problems or nexus of issues on the governance front. DirectorGilles Paquet Over the past 10 years, I have worked on the problems raised by the governing, the governance, and the governability of complex organizations and socio-economic-political systems. This terrain has been explored by many researchers. Indeed, over the last 10 years, these themes have become the centre of important debates on every continent (Kumon 1992; Kooiman 1993;Castells 1996). However, governance studies are still in their infancy. Although many interesting approaches and perspectives have been proposed, there is still no consensus on the best way to handle these issues, nor is there agreement on a lexicon or vocabulary for formulating these questions. Editorial CommitteeThis compendium of papers is a progress report on work that strives to generate new responses to these problems. These studies are unified by the choice of a particular strategy for dealing with governance problems. It is not intended to be le dernier mot on these matters, but only a premier effort to clarify the issues, using a method that has proved useful -the social learning approach. CHANCE EVENTS AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTThe research program on which this volume is based originated in 1988-89 during a sabbatical leave from the University of Ottawa, but the original plans evolved as a consequence of many chance events and help from friends and colleagues at certain junctures. GOVERNANCE THROUGH SOCIAL LEARNINGAt the time, the Institute was very much a forum interested in exploratory thinking. My work there was entirely curiosity-oriented, but I had an opportunity to discuss the results of my first analyses with Peter Dobell, Rod Dobell, Jeffrey Holmes, Steven Rosell, and Walter Stewart. Each of these colleagues forced different perspectives on these issues of governance on me, and they all had an impact on the reflections that stemmed from my sojourn at the Institute.The second chance event was David Zussman's invitation to present a paper on these issues at the A...

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Governance Through Social Learning

Paquet¹

1999

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“…Consequently, most developing countries saw what scholars have described as development administration. Development administration thus emerged out of the realization that governments and their bureaucracies in less-developed countries needed to be recreated and revitalized as a prerequisite for transforming those societies with the focus on how to build administrative bureaucracies in these countries (Gant, 2006;Hope, 1984;Luke, 1986;Schaffer, 1969).…”

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Guest editorial: Rethinking the state of the administrative state: Is the state back in?

Ohemeng

Christensen

2022

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“…Consequently, "as the economic situation worsened, the capacity of state agencies funher diminished" (Chazan 1988, 327). The post-colonial state must build an effective, responsive, accountable, and equitable management capacity (Luke 1986). …”

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The State, Development and Human Rights: Some Aspects of the African Experience

Ayee

1991

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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Trends in development administration: The continuing challenge to the efficay of the post‐colonial state in the third world

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Governance Through Social Learning

Governance Through Social Learning

Guest editorial: Rethinking the state of the administrative state: Is the state back in?

The State, Development and Human Rights: Some Aspects of the African Experience

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