Legislation and administrative reform

Abstract

In the absence of special circumstances, legislation is not a factor determining Administrative Reform. Administrative Reform depends on the social climate of a country and it can come about as all other changes in the country can come about; legislation is only one such method. If the social climate of the country accepts peculiar standards, be they of bribery, corruption, inefficiency, economic wastage or what not, the legislation will naturally reflect those peculiar standards but the root of the evil will not be the legislation itself so much as the peculiar views on which it is based. Take away those views and the legislation will be swept away; maintain those views and the legislation may get entrenched and become stagnant. The remedy, however, is not to look askance at the law, but at the social climate which has provided for the existence of that legislation.