Institutional reforms in public sector what did we learn? /

• Main Author: Baimyrzaeva, Mahabat
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
• Series: Research in public policy analysis and management ; v. 22.
• Subjects: Political Science > Public Policy > General.; Political Science > Public Affairs & Administration.; Public administration.; Central government.; Policy sciences.

What does it take to design effective government institutions and sustain positive changes? What have we learnt about the attempts to deliberately design and redesign public sector institutions in different countries? What works and what doesn't, and why? What happens when reforms fail? This bo...

Table of Contents:

• ch. 1. Introduction
• ch. 2. Overview of the first wave of institutional reforms in the 1950s-1960s : development through administrative modernization
• ch. 3. Overview of the second wave of reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s : the market as the new driver of development
• ch. 4. Overview of the third wave of institutional reforms since 1997 : government as a facilitator of good governance
• ch. 5. Lessons and myths in donor-promoted public sector institutional reforms
• ch. 6. Kyrgyzstan's governance institutions at the start of reforms
• ch. 7. Overview of Kyrgyzstan's public sector institutional reforms from 1991 to 2011
• ch. 8. Governance institutions in Kyrgyzstan after 20 years of reforms
• ch. 9. Review of the relevant literature on institutions and institutional change
• ch. 10. Analytical tools and propositions for institutional change
• ch. 11. Conclusion.