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Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan

Hierarchies, Markets and Networks

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Editors:
  1. Abiha Zahra

    1. Public Governance Institute KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  2. Geert Bouckaert

    1. Public Governance Institute KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon

    1. Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

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  4. Nasira Jabeen

    1. Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

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  • Brings together young researchers, academics, and practitioners
  • Covers a variety of themes, including public health policy, energy policy and disaster management
  • Sets a new milestone in the movement towards context-specific reform studies in South Asia

Part of the book series: Public Sector Organizations (PSO)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Hierarchies, Markets or Networks

    • Abiha Zahra, Geert Bouckaert
    Pages 1-17

  3. Reforms in Public Sector Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Interface of Actors and Positions: Implications for Reforms

      • Abiha Zahra, Geert Bouckaert
      Pages 21-54

    3. Reforming Structures and Procedures in Pakistan (1947–2018)

      • Abiha Zahra, Geert Bouckaert
      Pages 55-92

    4. Autonomy of Public Hospitals in Pakistan in the Time of Covid-19: A Policy Perspective

      • Muhammad Fayyaz Nazir
      Pages 93-110

    5. Energy Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Trends and Challenges

      • Shabana Naveed, Madiha Rehman Farooqi, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon
      Pages 111-132

    6. Reforms in Federal Training Institutions in Pakistan—An Institutional Perspective

      • Madiha Rehman Farooqi, Shabana Naveed
      Pages 133-151

    7. Interagency Collaboration/Coordination in the Context of Pakistan: Case of Polio Eradication Program

      • Hasna Khan, Amani Moazzam
      Pages 153-172

  4. Decentralization/Devolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Trends in Local Government Reforms: Case of Environmental Protection Authority

      • Zahra Ishtiaq Paul, Muhammad Adnan Sial
      Pages 175-194

    3. Decentralization Reforms in the Public Health Sector in Pakistan

      • Aneeqa Suhail, Awais Gohar, Trui Steen
      Pages 195-222

    4. Deregulation in Higher Education Institutions of Pakistan

      • Hafsa Noor, Nasira Jabeen
      Pages 223-248

  5. Involving the Market

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
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    2. Pakistan Post and the Creation of an Innovative Business Model to Enhance Financial Inclusion

      • Naubahar Sharif, Athar Mansoor
      Pages 251-273

    3. Sustainable Public–Private Partnership Delivery in Pakistan; Evolution, Barriers, and Way Forward

      • Beenish Bakhtawar, Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem, Husnain Arshad
      Pages 275-300

  6. Adopting the New Trends

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301
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    2. Digital Government: Transforming Sialkot into a Citizen-Friendly District

      • Athar Mansoor, Syed Bilal Haider
      Pages 303-328

    3. Disaster Management Reforms in Pakistan

      • Aisha Azhar
      Pages 329-348

    4. Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Concluding Reflections

      • Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Nasira Jabeen, Geert Bouckaert, Abiha Zahra
      Pages 349-361
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About this book

This book provides a research-based analysis of public sector reforms in Pakistan. It offers a broad overview of reforms at different levels of government – including federal, provincial and local – and examines decentralization and devolution reforms in various policy sectors. It also reflects on market-oriented reforms and the steps taken to involve the private sector to build a better-governed public sector, and explores new trends in the public sector in the areas of digitalisation and disaster management. Bringing together young researchers, academics, and practitioners, the book sets a new milestone in the movement towards context-specific reform studies in both academia and the professional practice of public administration, particularly in South Asia.

Reviews

“The editors of this impressive volume have assembled highly insightful chapters on essential aspects of public sector reform in Pakistan. Drawing on an overarching analytical framework, the chapters analyse long-term trends from a macro-level perspective as well as reform trajectories in vital policy sectors including health, energy, and higher education. This book makes a significant contribution towards a theoretically and empirically rich understanding of how contextual factors shape public sector reforms in a developing context.” (Tobias Bach, Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway)

“This is an excellent book on the administrative reforms in Pakistan from an institutional building perspective. The editors not just walk the readers through the history of reforms in the country, but also utilize a multidimensional approach that combines political and market forces to analyze key sectors of healthcare, finance, education, energy, e-government and disaster management. The chapters showcase complexity of reforms in a non-Western setting. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in public administration in Pakistan.” (Meghna Sabharwal, Professor, Public and Nonprofit Management School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas)

“The proposed book is an unusual and innovative collaborative research work. The title is enticing and opens up a spectrum of issues, challenges, images of nagging perceptions about Pakistan's public sector. Yet, through cutting edge and evidence driven research, multiple chapters effectively convey possibilties and identify avenues of reform in various arenas of public sector. The eminet editors draw our attention on how a collaborative enterprise could lead to a paradiagm shift and usher in 'strategic decesion making' change in the public sector and thus reforming the functioning of the state. This is commendable research work on public sector reform in Pakistan.” (Dr. Saeed Shafqat, Professor & Director Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Forman Christian College Lahore, Pakistan)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Public Governance Institute KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Abiha Zahra, Geert Bouckaert

  • Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Nasira Jabeen

About the editors

​Abiha Zahra is Research Fellow at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium and Assistant Professor at the Department of Governance and Global Studies, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan. Her research focuses on structural reforms in the state organizations of Pakistan.

Geert Bouckaert is Professor at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on public sector reforms in the OECD countries, and performance management. 

Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon was Professor at the Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. He has taught at the University of Houston, the University of Southern California, and the University of Stirling. His research focuses on governance and management of public organizations.

Nasira Jabeen was Director of the Institute of Administrative Sciences and Human Resources Development Center, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. Her research interests include governance, public management, and human resource management.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan

  • Book Subtitle: Hierarchies, Markets and Networks

  • Editors: Abiha Zahra, Geert Bouckaert, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Nasira Jabeen

  • Series Title: Public Sector Organizations

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96825-0

  • 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 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96824-3Published: 11 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96827-4Published: 11 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96825-0Published: 10 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2290

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2304

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVI, 368

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Policy, Industries, Public Administration

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