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| Title: | Developmental public administration challenges in Kenya |
| Author: | Miruka, C. |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Lesotho Law Journal: A Journal of Law and Development |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 47-83 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | governance public administration social networks popular participation |
| Abstract: | The relationships between good governance, social capital and public provisioning are more fundamental than the simply technocratic notion of improving service delivery. The basic link amongst the three concepts is located in public engagement and participation. Policies aimed at reforming the public service for better service delivery must therefore engage with these issues critically. This is what is conceptualized as a developmental public administration. The eventual outcome of this developmental public administration will depend on the nature of existing social capital. The social capital, or social networks and relationships that constitute communities, existing amongst a majority of the populace of Kenya is actually a threat to this idea since many citizens tend to organize themselves in groups to make material demands on the State, rather than seeing themselves as deliberative democrats engaged in the same mission as the State. Civic engagement and community participation are possible channels that could be used in restructuring the social fabric of the Kenyan nation-State so that government and the citizens in general can work together for the co-production of quality public services. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |