CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Abdul Aziz, Rukiya |
|---|---|
| Title | Local and sub-national governance structure contribution in improving access to public services in Afghanistan |
| Summary | Afghanistan existing governance structure adopted in 2004 is recognized as “centralized state structure” established by the democratic government, opposing with the coexisting traditional, fragmented and decentralized society that is playing a key role in the conflict along with the current theme of “modern society”. The modern society is the governance structure established in the existing democratic government, due to which not being able to implement it at subnational or provincial level. Therefore, in order to understand the “national governance structure” there is need to first understand the political dynamics that exists at country level (Evans et al 2004). The decades of conflict that existed at country level has created a state, where most of its areas outside of its capital city are “authoritatively” controlled by the “regional and local commanders” enforcing their legitimacy with the power they acquired with their financial and military resources along with their historical and “factional loyalties” (Evans et al 2004,4). The new central governance structure has been rebuilt from its foundation in 2004, because as the state collapsed during the last three decades of continuous war due to which the local people still consider the public sector as an “institutional blank state”. The new democratic state of Afghanistan has established an administration that is strong at central level that is able to provide a “coherent management” and an accountability framework but has not able to “reassert” the governance structure at subnational level. The mismanagement among the levels of governance structure has created frustration among local people that very little has being done by the “international community” in the current governance structure to support the government in asserting its influence at subnational and very remote level. However, subnational and local level are very important because most of the population in Afghanistan are living in rural areas and have to coordinate with the weak governance structure at subnational level for having access to basic services at their community level. |
| Supervisor | Huebscher Evelyne Patrizia |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/abdul-aziz_rukiya.pdf |
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