Overview
- Addresses how public administration is affected by conflict
- Compares the situation in countries from Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia
- Meets the needs of policy makers and international development organisations as well as academics
Part of the book series: Governance and Public Management (GPM)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- public administration
- public management
- governance
- conflict
- international organisations
- Sustainable Development Goals
- sustainable development
- SDG 16
- post conflict reconstruction
- public administration performance
- state fragility
- state failure
- state-building models
- conflict-affected states
- socio-economic development
About this book
This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries. The main value added by this book is confirming the general expectation that there is no direct and universal link between the conflict and public administration performance (and vice-versa). One may need to argue that each country situation differs and specific factors of internal and external environments determine the trends of public administration performance in conflict affected countries. To achieve the overarching goal of the book, sixteen country studies were developed from all relevant continents - America, Africa, Asia and Europe: Bangladesh, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, and Venezuela.
Reviews
—John-Mary, Kauzya, Chief of Public Service Innovation Branch, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Governments, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
‘Even absent the economic and political trauma of a worldwide pandemic, the intensifying polarization characterizing many countries, combined with the rise of an increasingly demagogic brand of populism, makes it evident that all governments are far more fragile than often imagined. Consequently, the excellent worldwide collection of case studies of governance in “conflict affected countries” pulled together by two leading scholars of comparative public administration, Juraj Nemec and Purshottama S. Reddy, has important relevance for citizens, practitioners and scholars in every country where effective governance is a priority’.—Allan Rosenbaum, President, American Society for Public Administration
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy is Senior Professor and Subnational Governance Specialist at the University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. He is the editor/co-editor of thirteen books on subnational government and currently serves on the editorial/advisory committee of seven journals world-wide. He is currently the Vice–President of Programmes of IASIA and Chairperson of the Programme and Research Committee of IIAS.
Juraj Nemec is Professor at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and at the Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. He has published almost 500 scientific publications. He served as the President of the NISPAcee and currently serves as the Vice-President of IASIA and as the member of the CEPA UN.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries
Editors: Juraj Nemec, Purshottama S Reddy
Series Title: Governance and Public Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74966-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74965-1Published: 09 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74968-2Published: 10 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74966-8Published: 08 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 451
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Governance and Government, Public Policy, Social Philosophy, Public Administration, International Relations