bureaucratic elites to reform their institution. Fighting against corruption has led to the extraction and circulation of legal … materially grounds their elite status. Nevertheless, when reforming, wilful senior officers face a major problem. On the one hand …

mechanisms, and successful reforms did coincide with high rates of economic growth for more than 20 years, after 1993. The reform … accordingly with significant economic and social costs. The paper brings out how difficult it is to make institutional reforms …

reform. In particular, the work suggests that reforms will tend to be more contextually fitted if: (i) they are driven by … various literatures but many observers still ask how PDIA-type reforms could work to foster successful reform in complex …Many public sector reforms in developing countries fail to make governments more functional. This is typically because …

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms …' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the reforms have been limited to these kinds of gains - producing new … that new mechanisms work as intended. The paper suggests that government should reframe its reform agenda to address these …

This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative … reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector … administrative reforms comprised complex changes in organizational structure, technology, and institutional arrangements. These …