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Pursuit Of Professionalism In Bureaucracy: Perceptions About Bureaucratic Values Of Civil Service Employees In The Ethnic Federalism Of Ethiopia, Mary Elizabeth Vogel
Pursuit Of Professionalism In Bureaucracy: Perceptions About Bureaucratic Values Of Civil Service Employees In The Ethnic Federalism Of Ethiopia, Mary Elizabeth Vogel
School of Public Service Theses & Dissertations
In the 1980s an array of world events including the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a movement toward restructuring and downsizing government bureaucracies, and rapidly evolving technology prompted significant changes to governments. Many developing nations began the transition from command to market economies, and new government structures emerged to address a variety of root problems including the rise of ethnic consciousness and conflict. As a consequence of these events, changes in societies, governments, and bureaucracies, were drivers for changes to bureaucratic values.
The current research addresses a gap in knowledge about bureaucratic values specifically in a government organized under the …
Fiscal Federalism And Its Discontents: Theory And Policy, Abu Girma Moges
Fiscal Federalism And Its Discontents: Theory And Policy, Abu Girma Moges
International Conference on African Development Archives
A number of countries have pursued fiscal decentralization within a broad context of political and economic reforms to improve the performance of their public sector. Fiscal decentralization can potentially improve the allocation efficiency of the public sector and increase the capacity of a nation to address its pressing economic, social and political problems. The sustainability of such an approach is conditioned by the existence of effective democratic institutions and implementation capabilities. When political imperatives dictate the adoption of fiscal decentralization, however, the process would confront problems of the commons, capacity constraints and externalities that would limit the potential efficiency gains …