Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia

Willy Mccourt

World Development, 2012, vol. 40, issue 11, 2329-2341

Abstract: Top-down versus bottom-up is one of development’s enduring tensions, not least in public service delivery. In Malaysia, public services have traditionally been animated from the top down. Bottom-up forces in civil society have strengthened recently, but so too have top-down forces, and their impact on public services is greater.

Keywords: Malaysia; South-East Asia; civic engagement; New Public Management; participation; democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.03.023

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