Government of paper Hull, Matthew S
2012., 20120506, 2012, 2012-06-05, 20120101
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In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and ...disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians, property owners, villagers, imams (prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders. What are the implications of such a thorough paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes? Government of Paper explores this question in the routine yet unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of postcolonial bureaucratic documentation produce a distinctive political economy of paper that shapes how the city is constructed, regulated, and inhabited. Files, maps, petitions, and visiting cards constitute the enduring material infrastructure of more ephemeral classifications, laws, and institutional organizations. Matthew S. Hull develops a fresh approach to state governance as a material practice, explaining why writing practices designed during the colonial era to isolate the government from society have become a means of participation in it.
O quinto número da RAP de 2018 reúne um conjunto significativo de artigos dedicados a temas relevantes de administração pública, entre os quais destaco análises profundas e longitudinais da ...burocracia brasileira no período de pós-democratização, nos governos do PSDB e do PT. Especi- ficamente, os artigos de Adriano Codato e Paulo Franc (Ministros-técnicos e ministros-políticos nos governos do PSDB e do PT), de Maria Celina D’Araujo e Julia Petek (Recrutamento e perfil dos diri- gentes públicos brasileiros nas áreas econômicas e sociais entre 1995 e 2012) e de Rodolfo de Camargo Lima e Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira (Manutenção e mudanças no Ministério das Relações Exteriores: perfis do corpo diplomático e padrões na carreira) escrutinam a natureza de altos escalões da burocracia brasileira nos governos do PSDB e do PT: os níveis ministeriais, os altos dirigentes e carreiras-chaves, como a carreira diplomática.
Partint de la persecució que la burocràcia de Nova Espanya va posar en marxa contra un grup de sodomites a la Ciutat de Mèxic (1657-1658), s’aborden una sèrie de problemàtiques: el tractament de ...«brossarització» que la burocràcia virregnal va donar a aquests homes, el concepte de «burocràcia novel·lada» i la reutilització dels fets registrats per l’acte burocràtic en obres posteriors. Es comenten alguns exemples de reciclatge temàtic del cas esmentat en obres de caràcter acadèmic i literari. Amb més deteniment, es comenta l’obra poètica titulada Sodomía en la Nueva España (2010) de l’autor mexicà Luis Felipe Fabre
Lost Modernities Woodside, Alexander
06/2009, Volume:
2001
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In Lost Modernities, Alexander Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three ...mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations. This book removes modernity from a standard Eurocentric understanding and offers a unique new perspective on the transnational nature of Asian history.
Internet/web‐based forms of communication have increasingly been implemented by welfare agencies. However, there have been few studies of the experiences of welfare service users and the consequences ...of new technology for welfare service users. To what extent is the new technology adopted by the Norwegian Welfare and Labour Organization (NAV) used, and how do the users apply and experience the new possibilities? Do screen‐to‐screen encounters replace face‐to‐face encounters, and is this trend affected by age, gender, education or type of benefit? To answer these questions, we combine survey data, short‐term fieldwork in welfare reception areas and qualitative interviews with people receiving health and work‐related benefits. Our study indicates that screen‐to‐screen interaction in general does not replace face‐to‐face encounters, as many face‐to‐face encounters are related to screen communication. However, digital competence combined with life circumstances appears to be the source of a new divide between welfare service users.
This paper examines the determinants of public procurement prices using comprehensive data on pharmaceutical purchases by the public sector in Chile. We first document sizable price differences ...between buyers for the same product and quantity purchased: the difference between the average prices paid by buyers at the 90th and 10th percentiles of the distribution is 16 percent. Our main results are related to the importance of market structure in explaining the dispersion in procurement prices. We find that market structure explains three times more dispersion than buyer effects. Moreover, we leverage exogenous variation in market structure due to patent expirations to estimate that the entry of an additional seller decreases average procurement prices by 11.7 percent, which is 72 percent of the price differences implied by the gap between the 90th and 10th percentiles of estimated buyer effects. These results suggest that supply-side factors are relevant determinants of public procurement prices and that their quantitative importance may exceed that of demand-side factors previously emphasized in the literature.
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