Administrative reform for public administration capacity in Bangladesh
Keywords:
Administrative reform, capacity building, local administration, MDGs, SDGs, developing country, BangladeshAbstract
This paper aims to understand the reform-led administrative capacity for service delivery in Bangladesh. It also explores the links between administrative reform and service delivery capacity in the context of local administration relating to MDGs universal primary education. It represents a qualitative empirical study with gleaned data and seeks to answer the question of whether the Bangladeshi administration is sufficiently capable of delivering public services. Findings show that the capacity is limited and not up to the standard of a contemporary public service ethos. In addition, the management of local administration is conservative in their approach. The research implies an information gap for the governments of developing countries and SDGs for further actions in partnership.
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Azizuddin, Muhammad. 2014. Administrative Reform and Capacity Building. The Case of Primary Education in Bangladesh. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
Azizuddin, Muhammad. 2008. Public Administration Reform in Bangladesh: Challenges and Prospects. Dhaka: the University of Dhaka Centre for Administrative Research and Innovation.
Brillantes, Alex B Jr. and Maricel T. Fernadez, 2008. “Is there a Philippine Public Administration? Alternatively, Better Still, for Whom is Philippine Public Administration?.” Paper presented at the Public Colloquium on Is there a Philippine Public Administration: A Timeless Issue, the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP NCPAG) Conference. http://www.up-ncpag.org/pdf/ABB_isthereaPhilippinePA.pdf
Caiden, Gerald E. 1969. Administrative Reform. London: The Penguin Press.
Caiden, Gerald E and Pachampet Sundaram. 2004. “The Specificity of Public Service Reform.” Public Administration and Development 24: 373-383.
Chowdhury, Lutful Haque.1987. Local Self Government and its Re-organisation in Bangladesh. Dhaka: National Institute of Local Government.
Choudhury, Lutful Haque. 2013. Social Change and Development Administration in South Asia. Dhaka: Osder Publication.
Ciprian, Ungurienu, Negru Gabriela, and Davis Dimbu. 2010. “Administrative Reform Enhancing People’s Participation in Local Affairs.” Journal of Law and Psychology 1(1): 37-42.
Cuthill, Michael and John Fien. 2005. “Capacity Building: facilitating citizen participation in local governance.” Australian Journal of Public Administration 64(4): 63-80.
Dror, Yosef. 2001. The Capacity to Govern. London: Frank Cass.
Farazmand, Ali. 2002. “Administrative Reform and Development: An Introduction.” In Administrative Reform in Developing Nations. edited by Ali Farazmand,1-12. Westport: Praeger Publishers.
Flynn, Norman. 1998. “Public Management Changes in Japan and People’s Republic of China.” Public Administration and Policy 7(1): 5-16.
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GoB (Government of Bangladesh). 1982. Report of the Committee for Administrative Reform/Reorganisation (CARR). Dhaka: Cabinet Division.
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GoB (Government of Bangladesh). 1998. Local Government (Upazila Parishad) Act 1998. Dhaka: Bangladesh Government Press.
Harrel, Margaret C. and Melissa A. Bradley. 2009. “Data Collection Methods: Semi-Structured Interviews and Focus Groups.” In Training Manual, RAND Corporation Technical Report Series. National Defense Research Institute. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR718.html
Heeks, Richard. 2001. Understanding e-Governance for development. iGovernment Working paper Series 11. Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. http://www.sed.manchester. ac.uk/idpm/publications/wp/igov/igov_wp11.htm.
Jooste, Stephan F. 2008. “A New Public Sector in Developing Countries.” Working Paper #36. Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects. http://
crgp.stanford.edu/publications/working_papers/S_Jooste
Khan, Sartaj. 1999. “Local Government Reform in Pakistan.” Local Government Policy Making 25(4): 256-61.
Levy, Brian. And Sahr Kpundeh, eds. 2004. Building State Capacity in Africa: New Approaches, Emerging Lessons. Washington, DC: World Bank.
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Olsen, Johan P. 1991. “Modernisation Programs in Perspective: Institutional Analysis of Organisational Change.” Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration 4 (2): 125-149.
Pazirandeh, Ala. 2010. “Local Capacity Building: A Logistics Perspective in Disaster Relief.” Paper presented at the 21th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). Vancouver.
Pollitt, Christopher and Greet Bouckaert. 2004. Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pollitt, Christopher and Greet Bouckaert. 2009. Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.
Quarantelli, E. L. 1994. “Disaster Studies: The Consequences of The Historical Use of a Sociological Approach in The Development of Research.” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 12(1): 25–50.
Rahman, Muhammed Habibur. 2010. “Local Government Reforms in Bangladesh: Hazy Policy Landscape.” In Towards Good Governance in South-Asia, edited by Juha Vartola, Ismo Lumijarvi and Mohammed Asaduzzaman, 245-260. Tampere: University of Tampere.
Richardson, Ivan, and Sidney Baldwin. 1976. Public Administration: government in action. Columbus, Ohio: C. E. Merrill Publishing.
Rohitarachoon, Pyowade and Farhad Hossain. 2012. “Exploring the Training Context for Public Sector Capacity Building.” Paper presented at the IRSPM XVI, Rome.
Straussman, Jefferey D. 2007. “An Essay on the meaning(s) of ‘Capacity Building’-With an Application to Serbia.” International Journal of Public Administration 30 (10): 1103-1120.
Teskey, Graham, Sabina Schnell, and Alice Poole. 2012. “Getting beyond Capacity – Addressing Authority and Legitimacy in Fragile States.” Paper presented at IRSPM 16th annual conference, Rome.
Vartola, Juha. 2011. “Administrative Reform Rhetoric: Some Remarks on New Public Management and Decentralization from Bangladesh and Nepal.” Paper presented at a seminar the Centre for Organisations in Development, University of Manchester, March 28, 2011.
Vartola, Juha. 1984. “Modern Bureaucracy and the Developing of Administration.” In Politics in the Era of Corporatism and Planning, edited by Heikki Paloheimo, 117-136. Tampere: Finnish Political Science Association.
Yin, Robert. K. 2009. Case Study: Research Design and Methods.4th ed. Applied Social Research Methods Series 5. Washington, DC: Sage Publications.
Zafarullah, Habib Mohammed. 1998. “National Administration in Bangladesh: An Analysis of Organizational Arrangements and Operating Methods.” Asian Journal of Public Administration 20(1): 97-112
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Azizuddin, Muhammad. 2020. “Administrative Reform for Public Administration Capacity in Bangladesh”. ASIAN REVIEW 32 (3):39-51. https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/arv/article/view/240258.
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