Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD Student in Economic and Development Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
10.22054/qjss.2025.89071.2918
Abstract
Although all contemporary governments can be considered bureaucratic in a certain sense, experience has shown that bureaucracies exhibit varying qualities across different societies. Achieving a high quality of bureaucracy especially in developing countries requires the presence of diverse social, economic, political, and cultural conditions. This study, employing a comparative-qualitative approach and utilizing fuzzy-set logic methodology, investigates the causal conditions influencing the quality of bureaucracy across twenty developing countries worldwide. The findings from the necessity and sufficiency tests indicate that accountability, transparency, and oversight as components of political development alongside administrative reformism constitute sufficient conditions for attaining the quality of bureaucracy in developing nations. Bureaucratic autonomy, as a component of a capable state, is identified as a necessary condition for realizing this goal. Additionally, the results of the conjunctural causality test reveal that the combination of oversight, economic globalization, and the absence of a rentier economy along with either administrative reformism or bureaucratic autonomy forms a strong causal configuration for achieving the quality of bureaucracy. The consistency and overall coverage scores for this configuration were 0.95 and 0.62, respectively.
Keywords
- Quality of Bureaucracy
- Comparative Analysis
- Fuzzy Logic
- Administrative Reformism
- Bureaucratic Autonomy
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