Innovative approaches: Citizens as Customers? Neil Collins 1.
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Innovative approaches: Citizens as Customers?
Neil Collins
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End Point
• Effective government– Clear objectives• Aims not rules
– High compliance• stability
– Low cost• Integration vs. differentiation
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Critique• major shift in many jurisdictions:– from traditional vertically integrated public
bureaucracies to decentralized forms:• executive agencies• partnerships with nonstate partners• network-based organizations
– more indirect steering mechanisms• Conceptualise through NPM narrative but....
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Public Service Model
• 19th century European legacy - civil service:– organised on hierarchical, bureaucratic principles– provided a limited range of services as a direct provider– adhered to the idea that political and administrative matters
could be separated – saw administrators purely as instruments for carrying out
instructions - matters of policy or strategy being the preserve of political leadership
– considered itself a special form of administration:• requiring a professional Weberian bureaucracy• employed for life, ability to serve all political masters equally
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Soviet Russia
• For several centuries, Russians famous for number of transactions conduct through unofficial channels.– reliance on unofficial "give-and-take"
• bribery and blat– informal contacts and personal networks: characterised Soviet
Russia. » constant shortages » 'economy of favours’ shadowed overcontrolling centre
– puzzle solved:• In the history of authoritarian regimes how people survived in an
economy of shortage, and how the regime survived under similar constraint
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Post-Soviet society.
• Post-independence Kazakhstan, use of bribes + personal connections = routine– simultaneously victims/beneficiaries– Systemically + constantly = informal norm
• reproduceability of corruption• rhetoric of "mutual help” no longer used.
• Government anti-corruption measures:– E-government services; police interrogation video cameras; unifying
access points - Population Service Centre– reforming the civil service
• working harder to uncover corruption• encouraging whistle blowing through cash rewards
• modicum of success but....– ingenuity rules– same rent seeking in business
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Transferability• which specific institutions really work?• How are they successfully introduced to work
to the desired effect?– unique cultural and historical characteristics– can government be re-engineered?
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