It pays to recognize the especially complex political and sequencing issues in public sector reform projects. That in turn puts a premium on understanding the political context, identifying the prerequisites to achieve the objectives, focusing on the basic reforms initially, and being realistic about the time it takes to get significant results. How does the political context impact on public sector reform?
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Neale
in the (Central and Eastern) European context this was partially topic within NISPAcee. There was at least one publication regarding politico-administrative relations. Next to this there is bulk of literature regarding the topic.
However, i didn't came across any research regarding your very important question - how much time it takes that something really happens. educated guess is: depends on the willingness of political elites to grant political support to the reforms. and this could be connected to the spirit of democracy - more political elites are confident that reforms will be publicly accepted - faster the reforms will be done and will also provide serious results. And vice versa. So basically political context (if we understand this as daily political situation/composition of government) is factor of speeding up or slowing down public sector reforms.
David Parker of Cranfield School of Management has written extensively on privatization in the energy sector and the United Kingdom. In his papers, he has addressed the socio political, as well as the economic context of public sector reform - privatization and regulatory liberalization being specific examples.
The political contexts indeed are important to understand why one set of reforms work in one country, while failing in another. Stephen Littlechild, in his paper published by the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ("Competition and regulation in the UK electricity industry (with a brief look at California")), addressed this issue.
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