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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PADEDR 24 1-458 (2004) (Publ. adm. dev.) 24, iii-v (2004) ISSN 0271-2075 Volume 24, Issue Nos. 1—5 CONTENTS ISSUE No. 1 February 2004 Annual Editorial P. Collins and G. Larbi SYMPOSIUM ON HIV/AIDS AND GOVERNANCE Guest editor’s preface HIV/AIDS, governance and development: the public administration factor D. Moran The politics of action on AIDS: a case study of Uganda J. Putzel Priorities, government institutions and foreign assistance in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia ee I I TIN i ibs bi i eeststcd scstinidntcncictnineinienedaa aaa Interpreting reproductive rights: institutional responses to the agenda in the 1990s H. X. Zhang and C. Locke Looking for strengths in response to AIDS: individual, group and public authority roles in strategy D. Curtis Who controls the machine, III: accountability in the results-based revolution J. Mathiason Ethnicity, decentralisation and the fissile state in Georgia P. Jackson ISSUE No. 2 SYMPOSIUM ON STATE AUTONOMOUS AGENCIES Guest editors’ preface B. G. Peters and G. Bouckaert State organisations as agencies: an identifiable and meaningful focus of research? I. Thynne The study of organisational autonomy: a conceptual review K. Verhoest, B. G. Peters, G. Bouckaert and B. Verschuere The design of public agencies: overcoming agency costs and commitment problems K. Yesilkagit Governmental autonomisation and control: the Norwegian way T. Christensen and P. Legreid iv VOLUME CONTENTS Measuring autonomy in social security agencies: a four country comparison J. L. Caulfield The quasi-autonomous agency in an ambiguous environment: the Centrelink case J. Halligan Quality management in the Turkish public sector: a survey Y. Ustiiner and S. Coskun Searching for balance: Vietnamese NGOs operating in a state-led civil society S. J. Lux and J. D. Straussman ISSUE No. 3 Evaluating the Best Value framework in UK local government services R. McAdam and T. Walker Governance for sustainable poverty reduction: the social fund in Nicaragua A. G. Dijkstra Getting the fundamentals wrong: woes of public-private partnerships in solid waste collection in three Ghanaian cities N. Awortwi Decentralisation of service delivery as adopted by the Central District Council in Botswana N. Meyer-Emerick, B. Mothusi and D. K. Molaodi Presidential personnel innovation for presidential appointees in Korea: toward an institutional presidency Taxation and local government accountability in a clientelist context: Colombia J. Merat Scaling-up participation at USAID F. Corneille and J. Shiffman Service delivery in francophone West Africa: the challenge of balancing deconcentration and decentralisation ISSUE No. 4 Reforming war’s administrative rubble in Lebanon F. El-Zein and H. Sims Reassessing popular participation in Uganda F. Golooba-Mutebi From policy lessons to policy actions: motivation to take evaluation seriously G. Gordillo and K. Andersson VOLUME CONTENTS The challenge of public sector reform in EC accession countries: reflections from the Baltics, especially Latvia C. Jacobs Regulatory impact assessment and regulatory governance in developing countries C. Kirkpatrick and D. Parker Privatisation and liberalisation in the utility sector: the case of telecommunications in the Czech and Slovak Republics J. Nemec, V. Sagat and L. Vitek Civil society and public sector institutions: more than a zero-sum relationship N. Uphoff and A. Krishna ISSUE No. 5 The specificity of public service reform G. E. Caiden and P. Sundaram The transformation of the postal services of Trinidad and Tobago R. G. Baptiste Digital diasporas and international development: Afghan—Americans and the reconstruction of Afghanistan J. M. Brinkerhoff ‘How we think they think’: thought styles in the management of international aid D. Curtis Limiting aspects of contracting out in transitional countries: the case of Estonian prisons V. Lember Innovative approaches to reforming public services in Tanzania J. A. Rugumyamheto Accounting and accountability: recent developments in government financial information systems L. Torres Author Index Volume Contents