Creating an Enabling Environment for Field Bureaucrats: Issues of security of tenure, coordination and monitoring - Softcover

Gupta, Krishna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838392213 ISBN 13: 9783838392219

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This paper deals with three issues, which are arguably some of the most important factors in determining the incentive structure of field bureaucrats. They are: a) the security of tenure of the officials serving in the field b) the problem of coordination between the officials of various departments working in the field, and c) the issue of the field bureaucrats being monitored by their bureaucratic superiors in the State or National capitals. I begin with a brief introduction of the issues to be discussed. I go on to the theoretical inspiration for the paper and follow this by a brief historical background of the Civil Service in India and the structure of the Civil Service that evolved as a result. Next, I describe how the security of tenure is an important variable in determining the performance of the field bureaucrats. I then describe the interaction between the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police, arguably the two most important field bureaucrats working in the Districts in India. Following this, I model this interaction as a two-person Prisoners'' Dilemma game.

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About the Author

·Ph.D.SUNY,Stony Brook,USA,1998-2001 ·M.Phil.International Trade.JNU,N.Delhi,1988-1990 ·M.A.Economics.Delhi School of Economics,1986-1988 ·Counsellor at the PMI to the WTO,Geneva,2006-2010 ·Director,Trade Policy Division,Department of Commerce,2004-06 ·Taught in SUNY,Stony Brook,USA ·Grant from Indiana University,USA. ·Grant from the NSF,USA

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838392213
• ISBN 13: 9783838392219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52