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From post-war era beginning until 1956 - the year which the ministry of Labour celebrated the first half-century it had been in existence -, its division for Labour and Employment was a strikingly stable organisation. Nearly each of its high-ranking managers (the assistant principals, the...
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New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development programmes, especially in the scope of the new international poverty reduction strategies (PRSP and HIPC initiatives). To gain a better understanding of countries’ trajectories and...
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Does publicness still make sense as an issue for further research? Classic organizational sociology (or standard theory) has provided a breakthrough for understanding public administration and management, but has not fully explored the agenda. Publicness is analytically characterized by the...
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The General Public Policy Review marked a turning point in the history of administrative reform. It created, in particular, an exceptional system inspired by project management, from decision making to the follow-up of modernizing measures undertaken, that replaced the traditional regime of...
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In this paper, I offer an ethnographic approach of the involvement of public services user in the shaping of public management reform. Drawing on a two years fieldwork in a French organization dedicated to the definition of administrative simplification reforms, I argue that this emerging set of...
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incidence of corruption is another distinctive feature of SSA. According to the last Transparency International Corruption … Perception Index almost 70% of SSA countries ranked register score below 3, indicating that corruption is perceived as rampant …. However, to the best of our knowledge the corruption and informality nexus has never been explored in comprehensive empirical …
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This article analyzes individual perceptions of the linkage between corruption and trust in political institutions in … 16 African democracies. Using perceived corruption and experienced corruption as indicators, it tests the functionalist … theories that portray corruption as a way to increase trust in political institutions by compensating for their …
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The purpose of this research was to examine student perceptions of academic integrity among faculty and peers at a sample of public universities in Romania. The study explores the factors that influence academic dishonesty among college students and compares the relative importance of faculty...
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