In the shadow of Shari’ah: Islam, Islamic law, and democracy in Pakistan

Pervez, Muhammad Shoaib

doi:10.1080/09584935.2012.737654

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“…Such networking is the means by which politicians get work done through a team of bureaucrats that they trust. 8 This differentiation is premised on these ties of trust being different to kinship or biraderi ties more commonly identified in informal networks across multiple settings in South Asia (Martin, 2016;Nelson, 2011). Bureaucrats distinguish themselves as professionals by grounding their relationships in work, school, or training networks with politicians and other bureaucrats, producing reliance, loyalty, and mentorship-particularly when initiated in the formative years of a bureaucrat's career.…”

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Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan

Ali

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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Bureaucratic performance varies immensely even within low-capacity states.Politicians and bureaucrats create pockets or networks of effectiveness that allow some departments to perform more efficiently than others. How do these networks develop and how are politicized bureaucratic appointments used to influence performance? Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted in Punjab, Pakistan, this paper argues that politicians and bureaucrats ensure enhanced performance by making legal and extra-legal appointments of hand-picked bureaucrats to key posts. The choice of bureaucrat is made on the basis of carefully curated relationships of patronage, established through work, training, and old school networks. As a result,temporary networks of effectiveness are created but rendered unsustainable by the very patronage relationships that create them, preventing them from evolving into more permanent pockets of effectiveness. More broadly, my argument contributes to debates on intra-state capacity and politicization, establishing a link between patterns of staffing and patterns of governance.

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Section: Patronage and The Pakistan Bureaucracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan

Ali

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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In the shadow of Shari’ah: Islam, Islamic law, and democracy in Pakistan

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Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan

Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan

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