The Politics of Service Delivery Reform

This article identifies the leaders, the supporters and the resisters of public service reform. It adopts a principal–agent framework, comparing reality with an ‘ideal’ situation in which citizens are the principals over political policy‐makers as their agents, and policy‐makers are the principals o...

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International Economic Organizations
Organizational change
Policy making
Public Administration
Public Services
Reform
Structural adjustment
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