Functioning of Bureaucratic Institutions in an Emerging Democracy: Case of Pakistan

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  • Dr. Muhammad Zakria Zakar Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of the Punjab, Lahore Author

Keywords:

Functioning, Bureaucratic, Emerging Democracy, corruption, mismanagement

Abstract

In recent years that scale of corruption in Pakistan, alone has  risen to Rs 100 billion a year. Furthermore, the crisis of governance, corruption and mismanagement, bad governance, loot by "mafia", misery, growing poverty, malnutrition, lack of adequate education and medicare, are the hallmarks of Pakistan's political economy (Human Development in South Asia, 1999). This injurious poisonous mix of factors has rendered the whole socio-political system in shambles.

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Anwar, Muhammad. 1991 "Socioeconomic Structure and corruption: A Case Study of Pakistan. Pp. 587-93 in Development Planning in Pakistan, edited by Ejaz Aslam Qurashi. Lahore: Ferozsons (Pvt.) Limited

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2000-06-30

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Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study

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How to Cite

Zakar, D. M. Z. (2000). Functioning of Bureaucratic Institutions in an Emerging Democracy: Case of Pakistan. Journal of Political Studies, 1(01), 21-36. https://jps.pu.edu.pk/6/article/view/1367

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