Reforming Ghana's Public Service: Issues and Experiences in Comparative Perspective.

This article addresses how the public service can be reformed to make it relevant to the circumstances and useful to the majority of people living and working in Ghana. In many public administration journals, reforms in sub-Saharan Africa have received scant attention. Using Ghana as a case study, t...

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Published in:Public Administration Review Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 343 - 355
Main Author: Haruna, Peter Fuseini
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May/June 2003
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      ab: This article addresses how the public service can be reformed to make it relevant to the circumstances and useful to the majority of people living and working in Ghana. In many public administration journals, reforms in sub-Saharan Africa have received scant attention. Using Ghana as a case study, this article first summarizes and evaluates that country's reform efforts and compares them to mainstream Anglo-American reform ideas. The article comments on the conceptualization of reform based on the notion of community, encompassing the unique political, social, and cultural experiences of the people of Ghana. Finally, the article discusses what a composite formulation of the notion of community might imply for a cross-cultural understanding of comparative public administration. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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