Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Hierarchies, Markets and Networks

ISBN-13: 9783030968243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Zahra, Abiha

Opis

This book provides a research-based analysis of public sector reforms in Pakistan. It offers a broad overview of reforms at different levels of government – including federal, provincial and local – and examines decentralization and devolution reforms in various policy sectors. It also reflects on market-oriented reforms and the steps taken to involve the private sector to build a better-governed public sector, and explores new trends in the public sector in the areas of digitalisation and disaster management. Bringing together young researchers, academics, and practitioners, the book sets a new milestone in the movement towards context-specific reform studies in both academia and the professional practice of public administration, particularly in South Asia.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Hierarchies, Markets or Networks

Part I: Reforms in public sector organizations

Chapter 2: Interface of Actors and Positions: Implications for Reforms

Chapter 3: Reforming Structures and Procedures in Pakistan (1947–2018)

Chapter 4: Autonomy of Public Hospitals in Pakistan in the time of Covid-19: A Policy Perspective 

Chapter 5: Energy Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Trends and Challenges

Chapter 6: Reforms in Federal Training Institutions in Pakistan—An Institutional Perspective 

Chapter 7: Interagency Collaboration/Coordination in the Context of Pakistan: Case of Polio Eradication Program

Part II: Decentralization/Devolution

Chapter 8: Trends in Local government reforms: Case of Environmental Protection Authority 

Chapter 9: Decentralization Reforms in the Public Health Sector in Pakistan

Chapter 10: Deregulation in Higher Education Institutions of Pakistan

Part III: Involving the Market

Chapter 11: Pakistan Post and the Creation of an Innovative Business Model to Enhance Financial Inclusion

Chapter 12: Sustainable Public–Private Partnership Delivery in Pakistan; Evolution, Barriers, and Way Forward

Part IV: Adopting the new trends

Chapter 13: Digital Government: Transforming Sialkot into a Citizen-Friendly District

Chapter 14: Disaster Management Reforms in Pakistan

Chapter 15: Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Concluding Reflections

O autorze

​Abiha Zahra is Research Fellow at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium and Assistant Professor at the Department of Governance and Global Studies, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan. Her research focuses on structural reforms in the state organizations of Pakistan.

Geert Bouckaert is Professor at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on public sector reforms in the OECD countries, and performance management. 

Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon was Professor at the Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. He has taught at the University of Houston, the University of Southern California, and the University of Stirling. His research focuses on governance and management of public organizations.

Nasira Jabeen was Director of the Institute of Administrative Sciences and Human Resources Development Center, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. Her research interests include governance, public management, and human resource management.

Blurb

​This book provides a research-based analysis of public sector reforms in Pakistan. It offers a broad overview of reforms at different levels of government – including federal, provincial and local – and examines decentralization and devolution reforms in various policy sectors. It also reflects on market-oriented reforms and the steps taken to involve the private sector to build a better-governed public sector, and explores new trends in the public sector in the areas of digitalisation and disaster management. Bringing together young researchers, academics, and practitioners, the book sets a new milestone in the movement towards context-specific reform studies in both academia and the professional practice of public administration, particularly in South Asia.

​Abiha Zahra is Research Fellow at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium and Assistant Professor at the Department of Governance and Global Studies, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan. Her research focuses on structural reforms in the state organizations of Pakistan.

Geert Bouckaert is Professor at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on public sector reforms in the OECD countries, and performance management. 

Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon was Professor at the Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. He has taught at the University of Houston, the University of Southern California, and the University of Stirling. His research focuses on governance and management of public organizations.

Nasira Jabeen was Director of the Institute of Administrative Sciences and Human Resources Development Center, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. Her research interests include governance, public management, and human resource management.