The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate that such reforms are significantly less likely...

This article questions the widespread assumption that recent reforms to Aboriginal land are for the purpose of enabling home ownership and economic development. Following a description of the three most significant reforms, the article argues that the reforms instead have the effect of providing...

By integrating organizational and institutional theoretical-frames this article, foremostly, formulates a three-dimensional perspective of administrative-rituals approach – administrative universalist-rituals, administrative cultural-rituals and administrative environmental-rituals – to...