Search results for "bureaucracy"

Los corregidores de Betanzos en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII (1748-1808): análisis social y profesional

2020

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en estudiar la vertiente social del poder, analizando para ello la trayectoria de quienes ocuparon el corregimiento de Betanzos desde su creación, a mediados del siglo XVIII, hasta que el estallido de la guerra de la Independencia, en 1808, empezó a alterar la, hasta ese momento, estable división administrativa del reino. Origen geográfico, estudios cursados, vínculos familiares o trayectoria profesional serán algunos de los aspectos a analizar, como también la actuación desarrollada por quienes ostentaron la titularidad del corregimiento. The objective of this work is to study the social side of power, analyzing for it the trajectory of those who occupi…

The Recomposition of Bureaucratic Forms in Territorial Development. Territorial Engineering and Intermediation in Project Territories

2013

L’ingénierie territoriale mobilise un répertoire de savoirs et d’objets intermédiaires au cœur du processus de création territoriale. Cet équipement cognitif est nécessaire à la cohésion de l’action publique multiniveaux au sein du territoire de projet. Dans ce contexte, bien que les modalités de gestion des contrats d’action publique ne dénaturent par la fonction médiatrice de ce répertoire, elles sont standardisées par les forces de l’isomorphisme institutionnel. L’ingénierie territoriale se bureaucratisant, elle administre des procédures qui font des territoires des segments d’exécution d’une politique définie indépendamment des enjeux territoriaux. At the heart of territorial processing…

Politics of Parliamentary Government

2018

The chapter takes up the powers of the parliamentary government, its historical formation in Westminster and the parliamentary control of administration by rhetorical means. The parliamentary polity includes the various power struggles both in parliament and of parliament with government and administration of a polity. The vote of no confidence and a wider repertoire of tools for parliamentary control and oversight of both government and the bureaucracy around it will be discussed. This aspect illustrates the relevance of procedure and rhetoric as inherent to the parliamentary type of government. Reducing parliamentarism to the government vs. opposition divide tends to alter the rhetorical …

Emerging Tiger? The Paradoxes of the Philippine Economy

2017

The Republic of the Philippines is an exception in the East and Southeast Asia realm. One of the richest countries of the region at the end of World War II, its rankings have slipped, and its growth rates have been weak for several decades. We examine the main causes of the mediocre economic performance of the country since the 1950s. Many analysts have pointed out an excessive bureaucracy, high levels of corruption and the lack of industrial investment in a country dominated by landed interests. After the high debt incurred during the Marcos administration, Philippine leaders have made every effort to improve the debt situation, choosing to pay back loans, but under investing in infrastruc…

THE INTEGRATION OF GREEN-BUILDING TASKS AND PROJECT-DESIGN PROCESSO - CASE STUDY

2018

The development of a green-building project following a specific reference standard such as LEED, brings new conditions and restrains for all subjects involved in the process. Such changes affect technicians, owners, bureaucracy and also the management tasks either during design or construction phases.  Within this scope, the management of sustainabilityrelated activities plays a key role for the optimization of the design-project development. This research analyzes the design process of two different case-study projects undergoing the same green-building certification from the project management perspective. In both project sustainability-related activities were performed throughout the de…

Digital discretion: A systematic literature review of ICT and street-level discretion

2018

El uso de las cartas de servicio en la administración local: el caso del Ayuntamiento de Torrent

2016

Public Administrations have suffered a sort of changes based in changing context and uncertainty. So, traditional Weberian bureaucracy has been adapting itself, embracing new values and tools. In this way, the City Hall of Torrent has developed the strategy called Torrent INNOVA. It was framed inside a quality management system named EVAM framework. Thereby, citizen’s charts are an important instrument in order to manage local context and apply new public administrative innovations.

International public administration on the tip of the tongue: language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the Economic Community of West A…

2020

Recent scholarship shows increasing interest in gender, ethnic or national representation within regional and international organizations. In contrast, language as a criterion of representation has rarely been scrutinized. We argue that this constitutes an important oversight for two reasons: (1) language is an important identity marker; and (2) language regimes in international public administrations can uniquely address representativeness relative to both member states and groups of citizens. Our article explores language representation in the Economic Community of West African States, and pursues a twofold objective: first, it extends the applicability of representative bureaucracy theo…

A Platone non si sfugge: il delicato equilibrio tra tecnica e politica

2022

The essay explores the use of technology in politics, focusing on government duties. After a brief excursus to highlight how the issue has a long history, the paper considers the relationship between technique and politics and how it has influenced our form of government. The thread running through the entire investigation starts from the consideration that between the two components – technical and political – there is not a priori a relationship of conflict or challenge, but that today, as in the past, we cannot ignore the relationship between the two dimensions that has always existed and that today more than ever must be developed constructively, given that it would be unimaginable that…

On Trojan Horses and revolving doors: Assessing the autonomy of national officials in the European Commission

2014

National officials working in international bureaucracies regularly invoke the fear that member states strategically use such officials for influencing decision making and agenda-setting to their advantage. This article theoretically analyses conditions under which the autonomy of national civil servants in international bureaucracies might become compromised. The ensuing predictions are then tested using a unique survey among seconded national experts (SNEs) in the European Commission (N ≈ 400). Finally, evaluating the characteristics linked to reduced autonomy among SNEs in the Commission, the article illustrates that these officials are, in practice, likely to be relatively independent from …