A review of the reports of the public service reform commission

Abstract

This paper briefly reviews the published reports and papers of the Public Service Reform Commission (PSRC) , focusing on the premises and principles of the key recommendations. It places the Commission's work in the perspective of local administrative development, commenting on the extent to which the exercise differs from established patterns of reform. The paper is not meant as a critique of the Commission's reports. That is the task undertaken elsewhere in this publication. This paper effectively provides the backdrop to such criticism as well as to the proceedings of a public forum organised expressly to deliberate the PSRC report implications.