Overview
- Unites expert perspectives from the Global South to address issues that most affect governance and public policy
- Focuses on decision-making in government, delivery of services, and citizen-centred government
- Brings perspectives from a wide spectrum of cultural and political norms
Part of the book series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Institutional Reforms and Policy Design
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Governance Reform
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Service Delivery
Keywords
About this book
This edited book explores the link between institutional reforms, governance and services delivery in the Global South, mapping how and to what extent resource-poor governments deliver public services to their citizens. The book concludes that delivery of public services responsibly and efficiently remains largely unachievable because of weaker institutions and poor quality of governance in the Global South countries. Reforms to governance and institutions are generally considered fitting measures to overcome public service delivery challenges.
Reviews
“This volume brings together a variety of cases offering valuable insights into the role of institutional reform, policy design, and governance in shaping delivery of public service in the Global South, particularly in the MENA and Asian countries. It also provides vital impetus for public policy and governance studies in Global South stressing the challenges and opportunities in delivering public service to meet the citizens needs and demand.” (M. Ramesh, Professor & UNESCO Chair on Social Policy Design in Asia, Lee Kuan School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hamid E. Ali is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Administration and Development Economics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and an Associate Professor (on leave) at The American University in Cairo’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Egypt. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics and a PhD in Economics and Public Policy both from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is the author of Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development (2014) and co-author with Christos Kollias of Defense Spending, Natural Resources, and Conflict (2017). He has published in numerous scholarly journals.
Shahjahan Bhuiyan is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration at The American University in Cairo’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Egypt. He was previously Dean of the KIMEP University’s College of Social Sciences, Kazakhstan. Bhuiyan holds an MPhil in Public Administration from the University of Bergen, Norway, and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Oxford Institute of Population Aging (OIA) and the Inaugural Democratic Governance Fellow in UNDP’s Oslo Governance Center. He has published in numerous scholarly journals and has authored, edited, or contributed to books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Institutional Reforms, Governance, and Services Delivery in the Global South
Editors: Hamid E. Ali, Shahjahan Bhuiyan
Series Title: International Series on Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82257-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82256-9Published: 25 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82259-0Published: 26 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82257-6Published: 24 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7301
Series E-ISSN: 2524-731X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 301
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Governance and Government, Comparative Politics, Political Leadership