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- Title
Public personnel management and democratization: A view from three Central American republics.
- Authors
Klingner, Donald E.
- Abstract
Is the success of democratization efforts in developing countries tied to the quality of public administration? Based on an evaluation of three Central American countries (Honduras, Panama, and Costa Rica). Donald Klingner claims that democratization and public personnel management are closely related Although each countries development must be viewed in the light of its own conditions, public personnel management in these countries hits evolved through a relatively uniform process, in three stages: (1) political patronage; (2) a transition to merit systems marked by passage of a civil service law, creation of an effective civil service agency, and elaboration of effective personnel policies and procedures; and (3) a dynamic equilibrium among the desirable but contradictory objectives that characterize public personnel management in developed countries. Because this process it essentially similar to the evolution of the field in the United States, it is possible that a general evolutionary model can be developed to predict or explain the relationship between democratization and enhanced public personnel management in developing countries INSET: Methodology..
- Subjects
CENTRAL America; UNITED States; CIVIL service personnel management; PERSONNEL management; DEMOCRATIZATION; PUBLIC administration; PERSONNEL policies; POLITICAL participation of government employees; CIVIL service
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1996, Vol 56, Issue 4, p390
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/976381