The Sudan civil service: one century of development

This paper seeks to explore and explain quantitative growth of the Sudan Civil Service throughout the 20th Century. The basic contention is that such growth is explainable in terms of political regime orientations and responsiveness, on the one hand, and citizens’ demands for services on the other....

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Main Authors: Eissa , Garoot Suleiman, Abu Sin, Ahmad Ibrahim
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Language:English
Published: Pak Publishing Group 2015
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spelling iium-463882015-12-29T03:42:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/46388/ The Sudan civil service: one century of development Eissa , Garoot Suleiman Abu Sin, Ahmad Ibrahim H96 Public policy (General), Policy sciences JF Political institutions (General) This paper seeks to explore and explain quantitative growth of the Sudan Civil Service throughout the 20th Century. The basic contention is that such growth is explainable in terms of political regime orientations and responsiveness, on the one hand, and citizens’ demands for services on the other. It adopts an historical approach involving comparison of civil service growth across political regimes. Thus, the colonial regime established law and order and cared about provision of services and infrastructure through bureaucracy. The first post-independence regime localized the civil service and created too many ministerial posts, departments and jobs to cope with escalating demands for services and development. The next socialist military regime, in line with its ideology, chose to enlarge the public sector and introduce far reaching measures of decentralization resulting in more responsive governance that led to further growth of bureaucracy. The final escalation of civil service growth took place during the period of 1989-2000 and continued up to the present. At the outset the incumbent Islamic government sought to downsize the large public sector, but ended up introducing a federal system for the first time in the country leading to more autonomy and responsiveness, eventually increasing public employment Pak Publishing Group 2015-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46388/1/388-IJMS-2015-4%283%29-60-74.pdf Eissa , Garoot Suleiman and Abu Sin, Ahmad Ibrahim (2015) The Sudan civil service: one century of development. International Journal of Management and Sustainability, 4 (3). pp. 60-74. ISSN 2306-9856 (P) 2306-0662 (O) http://Pakinsight.com/
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Eissa , Garoot Suleiman
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The Sudan civil service: one century of development
description This paper seeks to explore and explain quantitative growth of the Sudan Civil Service throughout the 20th Century. The basic contention is that such growth is explainable in terms of political regime orientations and responsiveness, on the one hand, and citizens’ demands for services on the other. It adopts an historical approach involving comparison of civil service growth across political regimes. Thus, the colonial regime established law and order and cared about provision of services and infrastructure through bureaucracy. The first post-independence regime localized the civil service and created too many ministerial posts, departments and jobs to cope with escalating demands for services and development. The next socialist military regime, in line with its ideology, chose to enlarge the public sector and introduce far reaching measures of decentralization resulting in more responsive governance that led to further growth of bureaucracy. The final escalation of civil service growth took place during the period of 1989-2000 and continued up to the present. At the outset the incumbent Islamic government sought to downsize the large public sector, but ended up introducing a federal system for the first time in the country leading to more autonomy and responsiveness, eventually increasing public employment
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author Eissa , Garoot Suleiman
Abu Sin, Ahmad Ibrahim
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Abu Sin, Ahmad Ibrahim
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title The Sudan civil service: one century of development
title_short The Sudan civil service: one century of development
title_full The Sudan civil service: one century of development
title_fullStr The Sudan civil service: one century of development
title_full_unstemmed The Sudan civil service: one century of development
title_sort sudan civil service: one century of development
publisher Pak Publishing Group
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/46388/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/46388/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/46388/1/388-IJMS-2015-4%283%29-60-74.pdf
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