Bulletin n. 3/2010
January 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Saxenaa N. C.
    The IAS officer - predator or victim?
    in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics , Vol. 48, issue 4 ,  2010 ,  445 – 456
    The Indian Administrative Service is a troubled institution - not least because of political compulsions imposed upon it. This article examines several of the more serious problems that it faces: a lack of professionalism, the creation of redundant posts, unsatisfactory structures of reward and punishment, and an inability to deliver services adequately. It then suggests steps which an increasingly proactive central government might take to address these problems at the state level in this federal system, where they are most apparent. These include a greater focus on policy outcomes; linking transfers with performance by state governments; and enhancing accountability outward to society and citizens, rather than inward and upward within the government
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