Civil servants and globalization : integrating MENA countries in a globalized economy /
This volume analyses the impact of globalization on civil service systems across the Middle East and North Africa. It presents an analytical model to assess how globalization influences civil servants and traces the shifting patterns of power and accountability between civil servants, politicians an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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Colección: | Transnational Administration and Global Policy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover
- Series
- Civil Servants and Globalization: Integrating MENA Countries in a Globalized Economy
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures, Tables, Boxes and Graphs
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I Analytical Framework and Regional Context
- 1 Globalization and the Changing Role of Civil Servants: Towards an Analytical Framework
- Introduction and context
- Why a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?
- The study of public administration and globalization
- Bureaucratic accountability dimension
- Socialization dimension
- Quadrant 1: Traditionalist/passive civil servant
- Quadrant 2: Professional civil servant
- Quadrant 3: Rebel civil servant
- Quadrant 4: Engaged civil servant
- Transmission channels and filters of global influence on national civil servants
- New and reinforced transmission channels for globalization
- Transmission channel 1: Performance indicators, accountability, and civil servants
- Transmission channel 2: The deepening engagement and growing impact of internationally generated policy advice and reform support
- Transmission channel 3: Global open government-based norms and how they matter
- Main research question and theoretical assumptions: globalization affects civil servants in various ways
- where and how does impact matter most?
- Conclusions and a forward-looking agenda
- Methodological aspects
- Country selection
- Interview partners selection
- Qualitative vignettes
- In-depth interviews
- Structure of the book
- Notes
- 2 The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Globalization
- Introduction
- Regional context: a history of global interconnections
- Haves and have nots: natural resource rich vs. more diversified economies
- The 2011 events and after: reluctant economic globalization and political transitions of varying speed
- Engagement with international partners: complex partnerships
- The pre-2011 context: controversy over paradigms and interference
- Post-2011 engagement with partners: a different ballgame?
- Civil service systems: an under-analysed factor in responses to globalization
- Post-independence establishment of civil service systems: intertwined with emerging economic models
- The social contract and its impact on civil service development
- Post-2011 transitions and civil service systems: typologies and their implications for trajectories
- The potential impact of globalization in the context of traditions and transition
- Notes
- Part II Civil Servants' Response to Globalization
- 3 Drilling Down on Globalization: Performance Indicators and Rankings as Features of Multi-Level Governance
- Introduction
- Performance indicators as a transmission channel for globalization
- Visibility of indicators