Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy [electronic resource] : Insights from Contemporary Africa /
Hanson, K.editor.
Kararach, G.editor.
Shaw, T.editor.
Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent moves by academics and practitioners to engage with each other.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables, Maps, Figures and Boxes""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Africas Second Half-Century: Enhancing Capacity for Sustainable Human Development and Human Security""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Varieties of innovative sources of finance""; ""1.3 Varieties of 'new regionalisms'""; ""1.4 Varieties of 'transnational' governance""; ""1.5 Onto varieties of innovative analyses/policies?""; ""1.6 Concluding remarks""
""1 Africa's Leadership Deficit: Exploring Pathways to Good Governance and Transformative Politics""""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Political leadership: a conceptual and theoretical analysis""; ""1.3 Examining political leadership in Africa: transformative or apoplectic?""; ""1.4 Leadership deficits and quality of life""; ""1.5 Constrained democratic space and the bane of transactional politics""; ""1.6 Contextual impediments to transformative leadership""; ""1.7 Leadership assessment instruments: a critical review""; ""1.8 Charting a new way forward""; ""1.9 Conclusion""
""2 Africa's Leadership Malaise and the Crisis of Governance""""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Conceptual issues and literature review""; ""2.3 Emerging issues and challenges""; ""2.4 Policy recommendations""; ""2.5 Conclusion""; ""3 Improving the Effectiveness of the Public Sector in Africa through the Quality of Public Administration""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 The context: the civil service in Africa""; ""3.3 The Weberian bureaucratic model and the African civil service""; ""3.4 The influence of the international factors on public sector reforms in Africa""
""3.5 Civil service reform in Africa""""3.6 The New Public Management and its balance sheet in Africa""; ""3.7 Policy coordination and responsiveness""; ""3.8 Service delivery and operational efficiency""; ""3.9 Merit and ethics""; ""3.10 Pay adequacy and management of the wage bill""; ""3.11 Developmental impact of the civil service reforms""; ""3.12 Reasons for the challenges facing the effectiveness of African public administration""; ""3.13 Conclusions: lessons and key strategies to improve the public sector through the quality of public administration""
""4 The Public Sector and Development in Africa: The Case for a Developmental Public Service""""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 The state/public sector's role in Africa's development""; ""4.3 The African public sector: problems and reform dynamics in historical perspective""; ""4.4 The New Public Management (NPM) as a mechanism for institutional reforms in Africa""; ""4.5 The way forward: the developmental public sector in Africa""; ""4.6 Building a developmental public service in Africa""; ""4.7 Conclusion""
""5 Towards Best-Practice in Transboundary Water Governance in Africa: Exploring the Policy and Institutional Dimensions of Conflict and Cooperation over Water""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent moves by academics and practitioners to engage with each other.
Political economy.
Environmental policy.
Economic development.
Political science.
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
Public policy.
International Political Economy.
Environmental Politics.
Development Studies.
Political Science.
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
Public Policy.