scholarly journals The Science of Administrative Change

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Sullivan ◽  
Christine Kexel Chabot
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Change

POLLUTION PREVENTION AND POLITICS — THE RECENT EXPERIENCE IN SYDNEY

1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. G. O'Loughlin
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Pollution Abatement ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Water Runoff ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Storm Water Runoff ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Administrative Change ◽  
Public Organisations

The New South Wales State Government has embarked on a multi-billion dollar programme of pollution abatement in Sydney, The socio-economic and political factors which have prompted this are described, These illustrate the complexities of dealing with pollution problems while social values alter, public organisations experience administrative change and financial pressures, and politicians try to balance environmental and economic objectives, The technical progress of the Sydney initiatives to reduce storm water runoff and sewer overflow pollution is also outlined.

From Empire to Law: Customs Collection in the American Founding

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 554-584
Author(s):  
Aaron T. Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Administrative State ◽  
American Founding ◽  
Early American ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
Archival Source ◽  
The Us ◽  
Administrative Change ◽  
Federal Administration

This essay investigates the eighteenth-century origins of the federal administrative state through the prism of customs collection. Until recently, historians and legal scholars have not closely studied collection operations in the early federal custom houses. Gautham Rao's National Duties: Custom Houses and the Making of the American State (2016) offers the most important and thoroughly documented historical analysis to date. Joining a growing historical literature that explains the early development of the US federal political system with reference to imperial models and precedents, Rao shows that the seductive power of commerce over the state within eighteenth-century imperial praxis required the early federal customs officials to “negotiate” their authority with the mercantile community. A paradigm of accommodation dominated American customs collection well into the nineteenth century until Jacksonian centralizers finally began to dismantle it in the 1830s. The book brings welcome light to a long-neglected topic in American history. It offers a nuanced, historiographically attentive interpretation that rests on a broad archival source base. It should command the sustained attention of legal, social, economic, and constitutional historians for it holds the potential to change the way historians think about early federal administration. This essay investigates one of the central questions raised in National Duties: How were the early American custom houses able to successfully administer a comprehensive program of customs duties when their imperial predecessors had proved unable to collect even narrowly tailored ones? Focusing on the Federalist period (1789–1800), I develop an answer that complements Rao's, highlighting administrative change over continuity and finding special significance in the establishment of the first federal judicial system.

The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jursa
Keyword(s):  
Sixth Century ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Administrative Change ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the aftermath of the Persian conquest of Babylonia in the sixth century BCE. It explores the relationship of the Iranian rulers and the indigenous Babylonian urban upper class and analyses the effects of administrative change introduced by the Achaemenid rulers and their officials, especially in the realm of taxation. It suggests that Cyrus the Great and his administration had achieved continuity by securing the cooperation of the traditional Babylonian elite, specifically by honouring the long-standing claims of these families on important offices both in temple and state administration.

scholarly journals Better Procurement by Comparing the Behavior of Electronic and Non-Electronic Procurement

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Galih Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Government Procurement ◽  
Electronic Procurement ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Administrative Change ◽  
Procurement System

Paradigm of administrative change the procedures method of government procurement, particularly the open auction method through a pattern of electronic procurement (e-proc). However, the development of e-proc has not been applied to the direct procurement system to purchase the stuf of governmental or procurement goods. Direct Procurement system adheres to a slightly different mechanism with the concept of an open auction. This difference implies the actor behavior in both methods is different too. Studies comparing the behavior of the both actors / organizer on the electronic procurement (public tender) and non-electronic (direct procurement) was conducted to determine the level of performance of government procurement. The factors and impact each of the procurement methods have been studied for understanding advantages and disadvantages of each method, so that it can formulate better procurement models.

Administrative change in the Gulf: modernization in Bahrain and Oman

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Common
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Administrative Change

States in the Middle East tend to be overlooked by researchers in comparative public administration. However, these states offer potentially useful insights into the nature of administrative change as they defy standard assumptions about pressures for reform. The aim of the article is to provide an account of reform by analysing important contextual factors in Bahrain and Oman. Given the large gap in the literature regarding the Gulf States, this article is supplemented by observations and evidence gathered on regular visits to both countries by the researcher. The analysis reveals systems of public administration highly resistant to international reform trends. Many of these factors are situational; including highly centralized political systems, tradition and strong national and administrative cultures. It is concluded that while reform processes are emerging in these countries, they are slow and evolutionary and are more adapted to the domestic rather than the international context. Points for practitioners The article may be of interest for practitioners working for international consultants, not only in Bahrain and Oman, but also in the wider Gulf Region (Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have similar political and social contexts to those of Bahrain and Oman). In addition to providing contextual information, the article discusses the institutional and cultural barriers to reform in terms of providing Western-style administrative solutions. The article also alludes to the different time horizons in the Gulf States, and the slow (by Western standards) and evolutionary nature of the reform process.

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