South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present

Björkman, James Warner

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“…Ultimately, our data do not fully support our theoretical propositions on the preference for job security by Kazakhstani public servants and the reverence for prestige and social status in Pakistan shown in previous studies (Bjorkman 2003; Khilji 2001). While qualitative findings demonstrate that public servants in Pakistan highly value the prestige associated with public service employment, our regression analyses do not yield statistically significant results.…”

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“…It is a unionized, career‐based elitist system with a highly competitive annual entrance exam, which is characteristic of South Asia (Painter and Peters 2010; Subramaniam 2001, 84). The old bureaucracy inherited from the British colonial system has largely remained insensitive to external needs and developments, according to Bjorkman (2003), although increasingly lateral and ad hoc recruitment takes place for newly created positions of a specialized nature.…”

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“…British influence on the administrative system of Pakistan promoted an elitist bureaucratic ethos that helped sustain colonial rule. In postcolonial Pakistan, the elitist and generalist Civil Service of Pakistan continued to adopt similar policies and strategies reflected in the English‐language, fiercely competitive entry examination found across South Asia (Bjorkman 2003, 193; Jones 1997).…”

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Path‐Dependent Public Servants: Comparing the Influence of Traditions on Administrative Behavior in Developing Asia

Wal

Mussagulova

Chen

2020

Public Administration Review

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This article compares the motivations and attitudes of public servants in Kazakhstan (n = 627) and Pakistan (n = 207) by analyzing quantitative and qualitative survey data. A comparison of these two developing Asian countries with distinct administrative traditions and path dependencies contributes to the public administration literature on developing countries. This literature often treats public servants in developing countries as a single category, with little contextualization of findings. This study finds that despite an overlap in Islamic societal values, public servants’ motivations and attitudes differ: lower prosocial proclivity and more aspiration for money in Kazakhstan may be partly explained by the Soviet administrative tradition, while prosocial propensity and lower concern with pay in Pakistan may be attributed to the South Asian tradition. The authors conclude that historical legacies help explain cross‐country differences in employee motivation and attitudes. The findings also improve our knowledge about the potential of reforms within the examined conditions.

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Path‐Dependent Public Servants: Comparing the Influence of Traditions on Administrative Behavior in Developing Asia

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Mussagulova

Chen

2020

Public Administration Review

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“…Ample attention is given to prudent leadership in a time when politics was central to government. Also part of the practical wisdom tradition is the so-called ' mirrors of princes ' ( Fürstenspiegel ) literature which dates back to the (West) European Middle Ages and Renaissance, of which Machiavelli ' s The Prince is the best known ( Björkman 2003 ). Practical wisdom addresses three fundamental questions: (1) Where are we going?…”

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Understanding Government: Four Intellectual Traditions in the Study of Public Administration

Raadschelders

2008

Public Administration

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In this article a conceptual map of the identity of the study of public administration is developed that encompasses its theoretical diversity and richness. It organizes public administration scholarship into four main intellectual traditions: practical wisdom, practical experience, scientific knowledge and relativist perspectives. The objective is to outline the study’s fundamental heterodoxy and interdisciplinarity. While the study clearly has strong national components everywhere, the four main intellectual traditions go across and beyond national traditions of government and of its study.

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“…Despite the push towards the inclusion of comparative studies of public administration, most studies remain remarkably narrow in focus, both historically and geographically. Although there have been some recent studies that defy these trends, such as that of James W. Bjorman (2003) , the trend seems remarkably stable ( Wollman 2001 ).…”

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Situating Administrative Responsibility: A Comparison of Medieval Christian and Medieval Islamic Administrative Thought

Jordan

2006

Public Administration

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Contemporary studies of administrative thought allow only a limited range of viability for medieval and non‐Western thought on the subject of public administration. This tendency belies the wealth of thought embedded within this broad literature. This paper investigates the matter of administrative accountability and responsibility through the lens of a comparative theorist of historical administrative thought. In order to assess the explanatory potential of early and non‐Western administrative studies, two texts have been chosen, both previously unanalysed in conjunction (to the best of my knowledge) from the perspective of the administrative theorist – John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and Abu al‐Hassan Al‐Mawardi’s Al‐Akham al‐Sultaniyya w’al‐Wilayat al Diniyya (The Ordinances of Government). Through an analysis of ideas of delegation and responsibility within these texts, the paper seeks to develop a critique of the place of revealed religious authority in the solution to the questions ‘who are administrators responsible to?’ and ‘what are administrators responsible for?’

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South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present

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Path‐Dependent Public Servants: Comparing the Influence of Traditions on Administrative Behavior in Developing Asia

Path‐Dependent Public Servants: Comparing the Influence of Traditions on Administrative Behavior in Developing Asia

Understanding Government: Four Intellectual Traditions in the Study of Public Administration

Situating Administrative Responsibility: A Comparison of Medieval Christian and Medieval Islamic Administrative Thought

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