Two Decades of Public Administration in Developing Countries

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The Rise of the Managerial State in Indonesia: Institutional Transition during the Early Independence Period, 1950–1965

“…Much of Indonesian political conduct has to be understood within an analysis of the authority and its transference to 'non-legitimate' figures. 2 The Mahmilub trials were indeed used by the army to discredit Sukarno during the tumultuous year of 1965-1966 when the struggle for power intensified as Sukarno used his fame and authority to try to stem the tide eating away his power base and those of his ally the Communist Party, and the cabinet. Jusuf Muda Dalam, along with Air Vice Marshall Omar Dhani and Foreign Minister Subandrio were sentenced to death by the military tribunal.…”

“…3 These events highlight the large number of former governors, ministers and deputy governors who have gone to jail for corruption in the Post-Suharto era. 4 Throughout the 1950s, efforts by both the government and military to root out corruption put behind bars some of Indonesia's most prominent financial and economic policy makers.…”

“…1 In the early nineties, Francis Fukuyama would proclaim the same with an even more boastful pronouncement: the end of history. 2 Of course, Shils and Fukuyama were talking about very different ideas; Shils was promoting the ideology of state-led, technocratic modernization, while Fukuyama was celebrating the return of liberal ideas and the market place. Both cases show the importance of the reigning paradigm of their respective period.…”

“…The rise of such international paradigms that traverse ideological and geographical boundaries is related to the inherently interrelated and international connections that have been bonding states and societies together since the advent of the modern world. 3 The present dissertation intends to analyze and locate one of the most perplexing occurrences in the modern history of Indonesia: the rather abrupt transformation from a weak, incapable, liberal-democratic state in statu nascendi that failed to develop into a strong corporatist and developmentoriented 'New Order' state with a military-technocratic elite at the helm. World, 1780-1914, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), p. 1-21. This transformation occurred between 1957 and 1965.…”

Environmental Scanning Mechanism and Its Effects on the Performance: Evidence from UAE

“…Sawyerret al(2000); Mrema (1987); Adegbite (1986);Anastoset al (1980);and Flores (1972) found that research on planning in developing nations has indicated the lack of information as a core reason for the disappearance of formal corporate planning activities in these countries. Also, the lack of infrastructures required for data gathering is another problem in this perspective (Nwachukwu, 1985;and Siffin, 1976).…”