Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries
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This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries. The main value added by this book is confirming the general expectation that there is no direct and universal link between the conflict and public administration performance (and vice-versa). One may need to argue that each country situation differs and specific factors of internal and external environments determine the trends of public administration performance in conflict affected countries. To achieve the overarching goal of the book, sixteen country studies were developed from all relevant continents - America, Africa, Asia and Europe: Bangladesh, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, and Venezuela.
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'Following 73 years of implementation of the UN Program on Public Administration, this book is a rich empirical policy resource and reference for effective public administration as an instrument of state action against conflict and violence which are still curtailing development in many countries. It is a useful resource for scholars, researchers, policy makers, and public sector leaders at local, national, regional and global levels in the international effort for people-centred peaceful sustainable development'.-John-Mary, Kauzya, Chief of Public Service Innovation Branch, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Governments, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 'Even absent the economic and political trauma of a worldwide pandemic, the intensifying polarization characterizing many countries, combined with the rise of an increasingly demagogic brand of populism, makes it evident that all governments are far more fragile than often imagined. Consequently, the excellent worldwide collection of case studies of governance in "conflict affected countries" pulled together by two leading scholars of comparative public administration, Juraj Nemec and Purshottama S. Reddy, has important relevance for citizens, practitioners and scholars in every country where effective governance is a priority'. -Allan Rosenbaum, President, American Society for Public AdministrationMore details
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Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy is Senior Professor and Subnational Governance Specialist at the University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. He is the editor/co-editor of thirteen books on subnational government and currently serves on the editorial/advisory committee of seven journals world-wide. He is currently the Vice-President of Programmes of IASIA and Chairperson of the Programme and Research Committee of IIAS.
Juraj Nemec is Professor at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and at the Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. He has published almost 500 scientific publications. He served as the President of the NISPAcee and currently serves as the Vice-President of IASIA and as the member of the CEPA UN.Content
1. Introduction, Contextual Background and Scope.- 2. The Role of Public Administration in the State-building Process: A Literature Review.- 3. Public Administration in Eypt After the Arab Spring.- 4. Public Administration in Iraq: The Post-ISIS Transition.- 5. Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries: The Case of Palestine.- 6. Reconstructing Governance and Public Administration Capacities in Managing the Resettlement of Displaced Persons in North-East Nigeria.- 7. Post Conflict Reconstruction, Governance and Development: Had the Tide Turned in South Africa?.- 8. 35 Years of Reforms in Uganda: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?.- 9. Bangladesh: Passage through Conflict to Stability and Public Administration Reform.- 10. Public Administration in the Philippines: Overcoming Conflict and Post-Conflict Challenges.- 11. Croatian Public Administration: Good Governance Accompanies by an Authoritarian Legacy.- 12. Public Administration in Countries in Conflict: The Case of Georgia.- 13. Rebuilding Public Administration in Post-War Kosovo.- 14. Serbia: Stumbling Through to Better Compliance but Worse Performance.- 15. Ukrainian Public Administration as a Cross-Road.- 16. Public Administration, Institutional Capacity and Internal Conflict in Colombia: An Intertwined Relationship.- 17. Public Administration Reforms in Paraguay: Challenges to Professionalization.- 18. Venezuela: Devastating Effects of Long Conflict of Political Instability.- 19. Synthesis: The Relations Between Conflict and Public Administration Performance.