Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
Reform, Rhetoric, and Neoliberalism
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 340 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-949035-6
Verlag: Hurst & Co.
experts. It identifies the role of the political leadership in eroding its professed values of neutrality and professionalism and turning it into an instrument of achieving its own political goals. The adoption of neo-liberal policies for development are examined in how they changed the perspective on
reform, and new institutions within this paradigm began to be installed without changing the existing ones. The book argues that hybrid architecture for delivering public goods and services has been the most significant transformation to be institutionalized in the current era. This is marked by the blurred boundaries between public values of access and equity and the interests of private profit, as well as the erosion of democratic accountability. With the diminishing ability of serving the
public interest, these trends open up critical questions of whose interests does the State serve, and whether it still makes sense to call it 'public administration'.