Theory practice linkage
Reorganization produced three metropolitan, four municipal and 103 district authorities forming a monolithic structure and unifying departments and organizations at the subnational level
What is Organizational Theory or Area Based Theory?
How many countries were chosen to commonly study at a time in the public administration works that were looked at?
What is 2?
This approach, inspired by market-driven principles, was aimed to decentralize and improve efficiency in Ghana’s public service.
What is New Public Management ?
Ghana’s public service was characterized by a hierarchical and rigid bureaucratic structure, which as slow to adapt to new policies and reforms. Many public servants were reluctant to embrace new performance metrics, fearing job insecurity or additional accountability
What is Institutional Theory?
What must be addressed as a significant variable in more comparative public administration works?
What is Culture?
Ghana’s public service inherited a colonial-era system that emphasized control over efficiency, resulting in systemic inefficiency and corruption.
What is a bureaucratic system?
Divestiture was another aspect of reform in which the government divested itself or relinquished some of its responsibility to the private sector
What is NPM Theory?
What period of time did comparative public administration emerge from?
What is Post World War II?
This theory describes how public officials act in self-interest, often leading to corruption and inefficiency in Ghana’s public sector.
What is Public Choice Theory?
There is a distinct difference between Ghana and Anglo-American society. Public service reform in Ghana has hardly paid much attention to it, adopting uncritically bureaucratic and managerial models of administration.
What is International Comparative Theory?
Comparative Public Administration papers have commonly focused on these types of countries.
What is Developed?
Ghana’s reform strategies have often been shaped by the conditions set by these two major international donors.
What are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
Public service jobs were often seen as opportunities for patronage, with political elites using these positions to maintain their influence rather than improving service delivery.
What is "public choice theory"?
According to the study, culture was noted as a crucial but often underrepresented variable in comparative public administration, being considered in only this fraction of studies.
What is "one-third"?
This reform measure in Ghana aimed to bring decision-making closer to local communities but struggled due to lack of resources.
What is decentralization?