This article uses the case study of the radical changes that have occurred in Venezuelan foreign ... more This article uses the case study of the radical changes that have occurred in Venezuelan foreign policy to test the utility of different models of policy-making, looking specifically at policy transfer but more especially at two long-standing frameworks that look at policy-making in terms of societal or state interests as determining the orientation and contents of policy. Using the radical
This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the quest for pol... more This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the quest for political legitimacy in developing countries. It is concerned with instances where contemporary figures reach back a long way in history in the search for items that can be used to legitimate present or future political arrangements. The first part of the article broadly classifies the various ways in which time has been used, but acknowledges the relative neglect of the temporal dimension in policy transfer studies. However, in the process of the search for political legitimation in developing countries, there has been a regular use of policy transfer through time. This is explored in a detailed case study of President Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. From this case study, a four-stage sequence of policy transfer through time is constructed.
This article deals with the rehabilitation of economies in post-conflict states, paying particula... more This article deals with the rehabilitation of economies in post-conflict states, paying particular attention to the role played by the state in this process. Using the example of Cambodia and its policies on rice production and export, the article shows the prominent role that may be played by the state in prioritised areas of economic development where there has been market failure. In the Cambodian case, the government targeted rice production and export as these had great potential for promoting the major aims of national development policy – economic growth and poverty alleviation. Using a whole-of-government approach and a combination of direct involvement and the creation of an enabling environment, the government appears to have contributed to vastly increased rice production and export.
DESCRIPTION The coordination of important decisions about development, such as determining nation... more DESCRIPTION The coordination of important decisions about development, such as determining national priorities and allocating aid, strongly influences development effectiveness. This report examines current arrangements for development coordination in Maldives and makes proposals for their reform to produce greater aid effectiveness. It contextualises the recommendations for change within current debates and declarations on aid effectiveness and the particular circumstances of Maldives.
International Journal of Public Administration, 2013
ABSTRACT It is argued that conditions for social justice in developing countries are deficient un... more ABSTRACT It is argued that conditions for social justice in developing countries are deficient under both state capitalism (“democracy”) and neopatrimonialism. Development assistance is similarly constrained, but it also has shortcomings in relation to “democracy” promotion. Political economy analyses can provide authentic insights into how poor people negotiate for public goods, but such interactions seem unlikely to yield sustainable social justice for most citizens. The assessment calls for a reconfiguration of power relations and a more egalitarian distribution of public goods within and between countries, which is what most people are predisposed to want and are entitled to expect and enjoy.
... MENPAN Kementerian Pemberdayaan Aparatur Negara [Ministry of Administrative Reform] MoH Minis... more ... MENPAN Kementerian Pemberdayaan Aparatur Negara [Ministry of Administrative Reform] MoH Ministry of Health MoHA Ministry of Home Affairs (which became the Ministry of Home Affairs and Regional Autonomy (MoHARA) in 2000, but reverted to Ministry of Home Affairs in ...
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the ques... more ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the quest for political legitimacy in developing countries. It is concerned with instances where contemporary figures reach back a long way in history in the search for items that can be used to legitimate present or future political arrangements. The first part of the article broadly classifies the various ways in which time has been used, but acknowledges the relative neglect of the temporal dimension in policy transfer studies. However, in the process of the search for political legitimation in developing countries, there has been a regular use of policy transfer through time. This is explored in a detailed case study of President Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. From this case study, a four-stage sequence of policy transfer through time is constructed.Related Articles Holbig, Heike, and Bruce Gilley. 2010. “Reclaiming Legitimacy in China.” Politics & Policy 38 (3): 395–422. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00241.x/abstract Case, William. 2010. “Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Historical Roots and Contemporary Deficits.” Politics & Policy 38 (3): 497–522. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00245.x/abstract Kane, John, Hui-Chieh Loy, and Haig Patapan. 2010. “Introduction to the Special Issue: The Search for Legitimacy in Asia.” Politics & Policy 38 (3): 381–394. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00240.x/abstract Related Media Bartley, Kim, and Donnacha Ó Briain. 2002 “The Revolution will not be Televised – Chavez: Inside the Coup.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c BBC News Channel Our World. 2011. “Oil, Politics and Hugo Chavez.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1DUkxy8Bk Este artículo analiza la relación entre la transferencia de políticas a través del tiempo y la búsqueda de legitimidad política en países en vías de desarrollo. Nos enfocamos en casos donde figuras contemporáneas hacen referencias históricas que puedan ser usadas para legitimizar acuerdos políticos presentes o futuros. La primera parte de este artículo categoriza de manera general las formas en las que las referencias históricas han sido usadas, pero reconoce el caso omiso que se ha hecho a la dimensión temporal en los estudios de transferencia de políticas. Sin embargo, durante el proceso de búsqueda de legitimidad en los países en vías de desarrollo se observa un uso recurrente de la transferencia de políticas a través del tiempo. Esto es explorado a detalle usando como caso de estudio la revolución bolivariana del ex-presidente Hugo Chavez en Venezuela. A partir de este caso de estudio se construye una secuencia de cuatro etapas de tranferencia de políticas en el tiempo.
ABSTRACT One-stop service shops (OSSs) for government services delivery have become a popular and... more ABSTRACT 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 examines their introduction in Mongolia paying particular attention to politics, political economy and governance. The Mongolian OSSs have been justified mainly on managerial and governance grounds and are viewed by government as a most successful public administration reform. This article reviews these rationales in the course of tracing the history of the introduction of OSSs into Mongolia. The reform is also located in the political economy of Mongolia using problem tree analysis to evaluate its relevance to the country's leading development issues. Further problem tree analysis is applied to one of these issues, service delivery. The OSS experiment is also examined through the lens of political analysis paying particular attention to the policy making and policy implementation. The overall picture is one of both success and failure; success in terms of establishing OSSs across Mongolia but failure in terms of the lack of change to bureaucratic processes and the centralization of the State.
This article examines the role of the Thai government in economic development through the promoti... more This article examines the role of the Thai government in economic development through the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It explores the interaction between the government and the private sector, with the challenges facing SMEs and the effectiveness of the SME promotion policy being considered in terms of implications for future policy. The government has played an important role in supporting the development of SMEs as a means of achieving sustained and healthy economic growth. A committed SME promotion policy from the government and closer cooperation between the state and the private sector are needed for the further development of SMEs. The integration of the government agencies related to SME promotion should be enhanced in order to have a whole-of-government approach. More focus on the quality of SMEs is necessary for their sustained development.
This article uses the case study of the radical changes that have occurred in Venezuelan foreign ... more This article uses the case study of the radical changes that have occurred in Venezuelan foreign policy to test the utility of different models of policy-making, looking specifically at policy transfer but more especially at two long-standing frameworks that look at policy-making in terms of societal or state interests as determining the orientation and contents of policy. Using the radical
This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the quest for pol... more This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the quest for political legitimacy in developing countries. It is concerned with instances where contemporary figures reach back a long way in history in the search for items that can be used to legitimate present or future political arrangements. The first part of the article broadly classifies the various ways in which time has been used, but acknowledges the relative neglect of the temporal dimension in policy transfer studies. However, in the process of the search for political legitimation in developing countries, there has been a regular use of policy transfer through time. This is explored in a detailed case study of President Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. From this case study, a four-stage sequence of policy transfer through time is constructed.
This article deals with the rehabilitation of economies in post-conflict states, paying particula... more This article deals with the rehabilitation of economies in post-conflict states, paying particular attention to the role played by the state in this process. Using the example of Cambodia and its policies on rice production and export, the article shows the prominent role that may be played by the state in prioritised areas of economic development where there has been market failure. In the Cambodian case, the government targeted rice production and export as these had great potential for promoting the major aims of national development policy – economic growth and poverty alleviation. Using a whole-of-government approach and a combination of direct involvement and the creation of an enabling environment, the government appears to have contributed to vastly increased rice production and export.
DESCRIPTION The coordination of important decisions about development, such as determining nation... more DESCRIPTION The coordination of important decisions about development, such as determining national priorities and allocating aid, strongly influences development effectiveness. This report examines current arrangements for development coordination in Maldives and makes proposals for their reform to produce greater aid effectiveness. It contextualises the recommendations for change within current debates and declarations on aid effectiveness and the particular circumstances of Maldives.
International Journal of Public Administration, 2013
ABSTRACT It is argued that conditions for social justice in developing countries are deficient un... more ABSTRACT It is argued that conditions for social justice in developing countries are deficient under both state capitalism (“democracy”) and neopatrimonialism. Development assistance is similarly constrained, but it also has shortcomings in relation to “democracy” promotion. Political economy analyses can provide authentic insights into how poor people negotiate for public goods, but such interactions seem unlikely to yield sustainable social justice for most citizens. The assessment calls for a reconfiguration of power relations and a more egalitarian distribution of public goods within and between countries, which is what most people are predisposed to want and are entitled to expect and enjoy.
... MENPAN Kementerian Pemberdayaan Aparatur Negara [Ministry of Administrative Reform] MoH Minis... more ... MENPAN Kementerian Pemberdayaan Aparatur Negara [Ministry of Administrative Reform] MoH Ministry of Health MoHA Ministry of Home Affairs (which became the Ministry of Home Affairs and Regional Autonomy (MoHARA) in 2000, but reverted to Ministry of Home Affairs in ...
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the ques... more ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between policy transfer through time and the quest for political legitimacy in developing countries. It is concerned with instances where contemporary figures reach back a long way in history in the search for items that can be used to legitimate present or future political arrangements. The first part of the article broadly classifies the various ways in which time has been used, but acknowledges the relative neglect of the temporal dimension in policy transfer studies. However, in the process of the search for political legitimation in developing countries, there has been a regular use of policy transfer through time. This is explored in a detailed case study of President Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. From this case study, a four-stage sequence of policy transfer through time is constructed.Related Articles Holbig, Heike, and Bruce Gilley. 2010. “Reclaiming Legitimacy in China.” Politics & Policy 38 (3): 395–422. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00241.x/abstract Case, William. 2010. “Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Historical Roots and Contemporary Deficits.” Politics & Policy 38 (3): 497–522. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00245.x/abstract Kane, John, Hui-Chieh Loy, and Haig Patapan. 2010. “Introduction to the Special Issue: The Search for Legitimacy in Asia.” Politics & Policy 38 (3): 381–394. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00240.x/abstract Related Media Bartley, Kim, and Donnacha Ó Briain. 2002 “The Revolution will not be Televised – Chavez: Inside the Coup.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id--ZFtjR5c BBC News Channel Our World. 2011. “Oil, Politics and Hugo Chavez.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1DUkxy8Bk Este artículo analiza la relación entre la transferencia de políticas a través del tiempo y la búsqueda de legitimidad política en países en vías de desarrollo. Nos enfocamos en casos donde figuras contemporáneas hacen referencias históricas que puedan ser usadas para legitimizar acuerdos políticos presentes o futuros. La primera parte de este artículo categoriza de manera general las formas en las que las referencias históricas han sido usadas, pero reconoce el caso omiso que se ha hecho a la dimensión temporal en los estudios de transferencia de políticas. Sin embargo, durante el proceso de búsqueda de legitimidad en los países en vías de desarrollo se observa un uso recurrente de la transferencia de políticas a través del tiempo. Esto es explorado a detalle usando como caso de estudio la revolución bolivariana del ex-presidente Hugo Chavez en Venezuela. A partir de este caso de estudio se construye una secuencia de cuatro etapas de tranferencia de políticas en el tiempo.
ABSTRACT One-stop service shops (OSSs) for government services delivery have become a popular and... more ABSTRACT 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 examines their introduction in Mongolia paying particular attention to politics, political economy and governance. The Mongolian OSSs have been justified mainly on managerial and governance grounds and are viewed by government as a most successful public administration reform. This article reviews these rationales in the course of tracing the history of the introduction of OSSs into Mongolia. The reform is also located in the political economy of Mongolia using problem tree analysis to evaluate its relevance to the country's leading development issues. Further problem tree analysis is applied to one of these issues, service delivery. The OSS experiment is also examined through the lens of political analysis paying particular attention to the policy making and policy implementation. The overall picture is one of both success and failure; success in terms of establishing OSSs across Mongolia but failure in terms of the lack of change to bureaucratic processes and the centralization of the State.
This article examines the role of the Thai government in economic development through the promoti... more This article examines the role of the Thai government in economic development through the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It explores the interaction between the government and the private sector, with the challenges facing SMEs and the effectiveness of the SME promotion policy being considered in terms of implications for future policy. The government has played an important role in supporting the development of SMEs as a means of achieving sustained and healthy economic growth. A committed SME promotion policy from the government and closer cooperation between the state and the private sector are needed for the further development of SMEs. The integration of the government agencies related to SME promotion should be enhanced in order to have a whole-of-government approach. More focus on the quality of SMEs is necessary for their sustained development.
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