Evaluating Government Policy in Transition Countries

E-Government Implementation in Transition Countries

Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT) have dramatically influenced the nature and quality of government-to-constituent interactions all over the world. However the underlying structural, organizational and institutional components upon which technological innovation is superimposed are as widely divergent as the cultures from which they derive. As a result, the successes...

Evaluating and revisiting the public government: a policy feedback perspective

Existing models of quality evaluation in public sector are mainly derived from the approaches within private sector. These models which represented by the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm, don&rsquot reflect the fundamental values of public administration, which are the very essence of the discipline and contrasting it from private sector. These core values, such as democratic citizenship, ...

Death Penalty Policy in Countries in Transition

S countries abolish the death penalty during their transition from war to peace or from an authoritarian to a democratic regime. In other cases, countries regard the death penalty as a necessary policy to promote their transition. In whatever way, it seems that the transition process has some impact on death penalty policy. How and to what extent is this so, and what exactly are the elements th...

Coordination Failures and Government Policy: Evidence From Emerging Countries

Rodrik (JIE 1996) argues for the use of government policy in cases where emerging countries are stuck in a low wage equilibrium because of a coordination failure. His coordination failure arises between downstream producers and their upstream intermediate suppliers when the production of high tech final goods requires a special set of differentiated intermediate goods. To qualify, intermediate ...

Policy Reform and Agricultural Adjustment in Transition Countries