Creation of state organizations: experiments with ideal-type reform models in a non-Western country

Abiha Zahra and Geert Bouckaert

Public Management Review, 2024, vol. 26, issue 9, 2611-2629

Abstract: By studying organizational creations, this article documents the reform trajectory of a non-Western country from 1947 to 2018, using a comparative analytical framework for the operationalization of reform trends on an original dataset – PSAD. Pakistan has paralleled Western world in following the ideal-type reforms without entirely shifting to the new models. Context matters, but the type of government – civilian or military – has not made vivid difference. No one reform type was pushed away; instead, country moved beyond hierarchies and markets creating blends, staging the co-existence of NPM with hierarchies and networks at its 40th.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2024.2339947

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