The interface between legislative oversight and implementation processes under structural-devolution reforms is rarely studied. Drawing on qualitative data from county governance in Kenya, this study establishes collective action problems to legislative oversight characterized by shaky alliances...

Contemporary governments have persistently responded to accruing implementation blind-spots by further restructuration of public bureaucracies. This has come with increased agencification and coordination efforts to enhance organizational efficacy and to produce trust for legitimation purposes....

With a change in neo-liberalists’ priorities in the global south, a shift from input-output democracy and a fuzzy relationship between democratisation and quality-of-government, has anti-corruption policy movement sizzled-out, especially, considering the popularity of Chinese Aid and the fact...

Contemporary public organizations have increasingly become expressive and complex. This mainly arises from, among others, the pursuit of similarly complex reform approaches in efforts to stay in contact with their environments and in the attempts to ensure control, foster efficiency,...