This article examines how patronage networks operate in subnational governments in Indonesia paying particular attention to how they have affected human resource management (HRM) practices in education and health services. Corrupt practices were found in varying degrees in all the provincial...

Mid-term evaluation of the bilateral Partnership for Growth (PFG) development program between the United States and El Salvador. El Salvador was the first of four countries to start a PFG, a new model for bilateral aid developed by the Obama administration. The evaluation high lights progress...

<title>Abstract</title> One-stop service shops (OSSs) for government services delivery have become a popular and flexible mode of administrative decentralization for delivering government services of various types throughout the world. Using an analytical framework derived from decentralization, this article...

<title>Abstract</title> Government arrangements in Southeast Asia have been typically centralized but in the 1990s the impetus of democratization pushed countries of the region into programmes of territorial decentralization. This was an entirely new experience for these countries and necessitated innovative...