"Attacking the bureaucratic Elephant" - the State of selected public administration, political and policy reforms in new democracies: From decentralisation and partnership to the responsive citizen in the governance of the state

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dc.contributor.author Saloojee, A.
dc.contributor.author Kuye, Jerry O.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-05T11:13:25Z
dc.date.available 2016-05-05T11:13:25Z
dc.date.issued 2015-12
dc.description.abstract This article argues that there are several assumptions that guide and shape the issues of decentralisation and partnership in creating a responsible and citizen-focused public service in South Africa, in developed countries and in other developing countries. The first assumption is that decentralisation as a normative ideal ought to be pursued everywhere. The second assumption is that public administrators simply need to make decentralisation work for the citizenry and not question it at all. The third assumption is that decentralisation can work because centralisation has not. The fourth assumption is that if decentralisation is not working in the interests of the citizenry the fault lies elsewhere than with decentralisation itself – the corollary of this is to be found in the assumption where two public administrators simply need to find ways of making it work in the interests of the citizenry. And the fifth assumption is that centralisation equals bad and decentralisation equals good and the corollary of this is that states ought to pursue decentralisation both as an end and as a means to an end. en_ZA
dc.description.department School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2016 en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Saloojee, A & Kuye, JO 2015, '"Attacking the bureaucratic Elephant" - the State of selected public administration, political and policy reforms in new democracies: From decentralisation and partnership to the responsive citizen in the governance of the state', African Journal of Public Affairs, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1-11. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 1997-7441
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52473
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher African Consortium of Public Administration en_ZA
dc.rights African Consortium of Public Administration en_ZA
dc.subject Partnership en_ZA
dc.subject Public service en_ZA
dc.subject Public administration reform en_ZA
dc.subject Creative public administration en_ZA
dc.subject Decentralisation of services en_ZA
dc.subject South Africa (SA) en_ZA
dc.subject Decentralisation en_ZA
dc.title "Attacking the bureaucratic Elephant" - the State of selected public administration, political and policy reforms in new democracies: From decentralisation and partnership to the responsive citizen in the governance of the state en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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