Pakistani Bureaucracy Crises of Governance & Prospects of Reform

The Pakistan Development Review 38 : 4 Part II (Winter 1999) pp. 9951017 Pakistani Bureaucracy: Crisis of Governance and Prospects of Reform SAEED SHAFQAT This paper is divided into three gos. The first part provides an overview of literature on how the role and assessment of bureaucracy in the Third World in general and Pakistan in particular has undergone change. The scrap part examines the changing socioeconomic profile and corresponding attitudinal changes if any, in Pakistans bureaucracy. The third part provides guidelines for possible reform in Pakistans national bureaucracy. ASSESSING BUREAUCRACY: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE For almost two decades (i.e. 19501970) the academician society presented bureaucracy in the developing countries as engine of growth, growth and an agent of change [Lapalambora (1963) and Apter (1967)]. Bureaucracy in Pakistan provided a pick out and received laudatory comments for its role in initiating economic development and promoting governmental stability [Huntington (1968); Von Vorys (1965) and Braibanti (1966)]. Bureaucratic elites and public institutions were expected to provide leadership, grade and stability. Again Pakistani bureaucracy stood the test and fulfilled these expectations [Huntington (1968)].

By the young 1960s that witnessed movements of popular protest and agitation against the authoritarian and repressing role of the government, the opposition political parties, and a segment of the cross media started portraying the bureaucracy as an instrument of oppression. This portrayal had an pertain on public consciousness. Bureaucrats were seen as being inimical to their interests. By the mid-1970s the academic community and the World Bank (both in their own acquaintance and direction) began to reassess and reevaluate the role of bureaucracy [Donell (1973) and Laporte (1975)]. In the early eighties the World Bank studies began casting aspersions on bureaucracys ability to promote order and development... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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