Query: government bureaucracy

title: Ukrainian Government Bureaucracy: Benefits and Costs for the Society
abstract: Government bureaucracy efficiency, and its attending cost for society, is one of the gravest issues currently facing Ukraine. The low efficiency of Ukrainian government bureaucracy is caused by a merger of bureaucracy, political power, and large, manipulating business interests. As a result, Ukraine faces a significantly depressed economy, a high level of corruption, low property rights protection, and a pervasive lack of trust in the government in general. In order to understand the true costs and benefits of government bureaucracy for the Ukrainian society, a methodology of calculating bureaucracy specifically for Ukraine was developed. Previously unused indicators were added to provide greater accuracy. The inefficiency of Ukrainian government bureaucracy was determined categorically. Paths to the improvement of Ukrainian government bureaucracy efficiency were suggested.

title: The Central Institutions of Youth Justice: Government Bureaucracy and the Importance of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
abstract: The government's recent 'bonfire of the quangos' put at issue the future of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) Drawing on research with YJB staff, ministers and civil servants, this article argues a central body like the YJB is crucial for youth justice. The institutions of government bureaucracy are an important part of the penal field in which policy is produced. An 'arm's length' body outside the civil service allows central decision making to be directed by expertise and child centred principles. However, the same features that make the YJB important also make it both high risk for ministers and difficult to defend.

title: When Bureaucracy Meets the Crowd: Studying "Open Government" in the Vienna City Administration
abstract: Open Government is en vogue, yet vague: while practitioners, policy makers, and others praise its virtues, little is known about how Open Government relates to bureaucratic organization. This paper presents insights from a qualitative investigation into the City of Vienna, Austria. It demonstrates how the encounter between the city administration and "the open" juxtaposes the decentralizing principles of the crowd, such as transparency, participation, and distributed cognition, with the centralizing principles of bureaucracy, such as secrecy, expert knowledge, written files, and rules. The paper explores how this theoretical conundrum is played out and how senior city managers perceive Open Government in relation to the bureaucratic nature of their administration. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to empirically trace the complexities of the encounter between bureaucracy and Open Government; and second, to critically theorize the ongoing rationalization of public administration in spite of constant challenges to its bureaucratic principles. In so doing, the paper advances our understanding of modern bureaucratic organizations under the condition of increased openness, transparency, and interaction with their environments.

title: Political Accountability and Real Authority of Government Bureaucracy
abstract: In a country with weak institutional constraints on the executive, the real power might belong to the government bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the Barro Ferejohn model of political agency to study the relationship between the accountability of elected politicians and the extent to which their subordinate bureaucrats have real decision making power. We show that the lower is the level of political accountability, the lower should be real authority at the bottom of the government hierarchy. Empirically, we find that in countries with lower political accountability those in political power have less authority over the public administration. On the contrary, countries with higher political accountability have bigger governments in terms of administration employment.

title: The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy: Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency
abstract: This interdisciplinary study examines patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately AD 1100 to 1949.

title: An examination of government bureaucracy in facilitating business: Comparing Malaysia with Indonesia
abstract: Government of today must facilitate business activities and promote efficient policies to smoothen the processes of doing business.The Global Competitiveness Report 2010 2011 has listed inefficient government bureaucracy as top most problematic factor experienced by businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia.Despite immense efforts being taken by both governments to improve this negative image, bureaucracy efficiency rankings are still poor.Both Malaysia and Indonesia are gearing up systematic reform to raise efficiency of government machinery via combating corruption and red tape. This paper begins with a brief discussion on bureaucracy efficiency and its link with business growth from the perspective of three performance ranking reports which review Malaysia and Indonesia's recent performance years.A comparative note is presented to review what rankings and scores and how these dwindling positions reflect bureaucracy performance.The paper examines political and administration changes which contribute to low score of government machinery despite sound transformation policy for Malaysia and corruption initiatives for Indonesia.The study analyses Global Competitiveness Report, World Bank Doing Business report and Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Survey from 2008 to 2011 for Malaysia and Indonesia in order to portray the ranking and score of Malaysia and Indonesia bureaucracy.The annual report of Government Linked Companies (GLCs) auditing firms and government budget speeches of Malaysia were examined to find evidence for bureaucracy performance in Malaysia.In order to encompass a wider picture of the corruption in Indonesia, media source is taken as its main source. Ranking and score of analyses Global Competitiveness Report, World Bank Doing Business report and Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Survey are presented in tabular form at followed by a discussion of the results. Textual analysis is performed on annual reports, budget speeches and media reports information and findings gathered from these sources are narrated to offer a perspective of the policy in Malaysia and corruption in Indonesia.

title: Breaking Through Bureaucracy A New Vision For Managing In Government

title: E government and organizational change: Reappraising the role of ICT and bureaucracy in public service delivery
abstract: There is a substantial literature on e government that discusses information and communication technology (ICT) as an instrument for reducing the role of bureaucracy in government organizations. The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical discussion of this literature and to provide a complementary argument which favors the use of ICT in the public sector to support the operations of bureaucratic organizations. Based on the findings of a case study of the Venice Municipality in Italy the paper discusses how ICT can be used to support rather than eliminate bureaucracy. Using the concepts of e bureaucracy and functional simplification and closure, the paper proposes evidence and support for the argument that bureaucracy should be preserved and enhanced where e government policies are concerned. Functional simplification and closure are very valuable concepts for explaining why this should be a viable approach.

title: Street Level Bureaucracy and E Government
abstract: With the intensive use of information and communication technologies, governments are transforming into e governments. While public management research has given increased attention to this subject lately, this article reviews the limited literature that deals with the impacts of e government technologies on street level bureaucracies. A twofold argument is being developed. First, what can be called the 'curtailment thesis' stressing the reduction or disappearance of frontline policy discretion, is addressed. Second, the 'enablement thesis' gets attention, highlighting how technologies provide frontline workers and citizens with additional action resources. The article concludes with propositions for a future research agenda on the topic.

title: Harmonising the government bureaucracy symphony
abstract: The Federal Government is using the word coordination a lot. And as part of the Queensland Government's election platform, it has announced that a new State Mental Health Commission is to have a role of coordinating services. Indeed, a major role of the new Federal Mental Health Commission will need to see coordination as one of its major preoccupations.