Special issue on south Africa: Call for papers
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/pad.4230140411 |
| Date | 02 November 2006 |
| Published date | 02 November 2006 |
PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT, VOL.
14,419420
(1994)
Special issue
on
South Africa: call for papers
The political changes that have recently taken place in South Africa assume dimen-
sions comparable in significance only to what has been happening in east and central
Europe, the former USSR and some countries in other regions in transition. The
constitutional and sociopolitical reforms in South Africa have major implications
for the future structure and operation of public administration. For example, the
management of the civil service will require modification in order to incorporate
new social groups within its structures, and training will be needed in support of
these changers. The reallocation of roles within the civil service will have to be
accompanied by structural change to ensure a more balanced geographical and
socioeconomic pattern of service provision than before. This will call, in turn, for
the review of subnational structures of government, including various regional
options and the strengthening of local government administration in hitherto neg-
lected areas. At all levels, this will imply the addressing of related development
issues, including the management of urban sprawl, development of rural areas and
reallocation of social services, especially education. The role of public and private
enterprise in all the foregoing also needs reconsidering.
In view
of
the importance of and global interest in what is happening in South
Africa,
Public Administration and Development
will publish in
1995
a
special issue
on public sector management reform in that country. The special issue aims to bring
together a set of practitioners and analysts from a cross-section of the political spec-
trum inside and outside South Africa to review the issues and options therein in
its transition towards a more multiracial society. The special issue will also pay
attention to the role of international technical cooperation in supporting the transi-
tion in South Africa as well as the crucial area of change management in the whole
process.
Themes that might be addressed are outlined in the following list.
1.
Civil service restructuring:
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nature of affirmative action policies;
0
changes envisaged in organisational structures;
0
the role of the Civil Service Commission.
2.
The training of civil servants for the ‘new’ public administration:
0
the role of universities and technikons;
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the profile
of
a civil servant from the ‘new’ role;
0
prioritiedfields of training that are required;
0
the role
of
a future civil service college.
3.
Regional development issues-the federal option for South Africa:
0
the regional option as an instrument of political negotiation;
0
the nature of proposed
regions-economic/political
feasibility of regions;
0
the relationship of statedprovinces with the federal government-degree of
0
1994
by
John
Wiley
&
Sons, Ltd.
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