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Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and performance management.

Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021 is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and performance management. Comprehensively spanning a critical period from 1994 to the current day, this collection constitutes the first systematic study of public sector reform in the gamut of the democratic era in the country. The author traces developments of policy following a rapid political shift, shedding light on previously unexplored evolving structures and systems. The Public Policy and Governance series brings together the best in international research on policy and governance issues. Books within the series are authored and edited by experts in the field and present new and insightful research on a range of policy and governance issues across the globe.

Leading experts from a number of countries examine the similarities and differences, common problems and the future form of the public sector. They argue that public sector reform deals with matters of justice and not just efficiency.

SummaryThere is growing recognition within the international development sector that there is a need for a new, more effective approach to engaging in public sector reform. This article builds on an emerging body of work that advocates more entrepreneurial and adaptive public sector reform programming. Drawing on knowledge and theory from public sector management, psychology and entrepreneurialism, this article aims to understand what motivates public sector workers to work entrepreneurially and suggest how these ideas can be applied to the way in which international development agencies engage in public sector reform work. This requires a shift in thinking from predesigned, large, externally led programmes promoting international best practice to interventions in which agencies adopt the role of a facilitator, helping to establish the enabling conditions for local partners to work entrepreneurially, developing their own solutions to the problems that they identify in their work. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Introduction : theory and practice of public sector reform / Steven Van de Walle and Sandra Groeneveld -- An institutional perspective / Johan P. Olsen -- A transformative perspective / Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid -- A principal-agent perspective / Sandra Van Thiel -- An innovation perspective / Victor Bekkers and Lars Tummers -- A change management perspective / Joris van der Voet, Ben S. Kuipers and Sandra Groeneveld -- A cultural theory perspective / Christopher Hood -- An interpretive perspective / R.A.W. Rhodes -- Reforming organizational structures / Steven Van de Walle -- Bureaucrats and politicians : reform begets reform / B. Guy Peters -- The shift toward network governance : drivers, characteristics and -- Manifestations / Erik-Hans Klijn and Joop Koppenjan -- Management of human resources : trends and variation / Sandra Groeneveld and Bram Steijn -- Public management reform and public professionalism / Mirko Noordegraaf -- Recent shifts in public financial management / Tiina Randma and Geert Bouckaert -- Public sector reform amidst societal and administrative shifts / Kim Putters -- Two varieties of administrative reform : US vs. Europe / Richard Stillman -- Becoming a student of reform / Frans-Bauke van der Meer, Christoph Reichard and Arthur Ringeling

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate public sector reform (PSR) initiatives in Kazakhstan, and how such reform efforts have helped the government to be more responsive to the needs and demands of the citizens.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examined four key PSR initiatives: decentralization, Civil Service reform, e‐governance, and civil society in improving governance in post‐Soviet Kazakhstan.FindingsIn light of Kazakhstan government's efforts to reform the public sector, the study finds that substantial progress has been made in improving its service delivery systems and enhancing good governance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is an investigation of four out of several PSR initiatives aimed at improving good governance.Originality/valueThe study provides insights into how aspects of PSR can be fundamentally useful in promoting good governance.

AbstractBlame avoidance has often been claimed to be an important rationale behind changes in the organisation of the public sector, but very few studies have examined whether and how public attribution of responsibility is actually affected by such reforms. For instance, how do changes in the formal allocation of authority affect public attribution of blame when things go wrong? Is the effect immediate or delayed? To advance our understanding of such questions, this paper presents an analysis of blame and credit attribution in more than 1,200 newspaper articles about health-care-related issues in Norway before and after the major Norwegian hospital reform from 2002. The central empirical finding of the article is that central state-level authorities in Norway were attributed less blame in media coverage of health-care problems after the reform than before the reform. The shift is delayed, but substantial and robust to various modifications in model estimations.

Around 1980s, the reform movement greatly gained momentum in most Western countries. With the public sector pivotal to the welfare state 'model', public spending in Sweden was transformed from the Social Democrats' chief solution to their chief problem. (SJK)

Contemporary public sector reforms in Australia have been dominated by efficiency, productivity and contestability considerations captured in the National Competition Policy (NCP). Both in the reform process in general and in the NCP processes in particular, the lack of priority attributed to non-economic concerns such as co-ordination, equity, representation, political accountability, consultation and distributive outcomes has been a serious omission. The idea of public interest, once central to democratic public administration, has re-emerged to challenge the perceived excesses of economic rationalism as the unifying idea of reform. In this article it is argued that substantive situational manifestations of public interest can be used to complement rather than undermine the efficiency, productivity and contestability objectives of public sector reform. (Asian J Pol Sci/DÜI)