Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan

Here, more than 100 years of incumbency reports on officers of the irrigation bureaucracy of Punjab, Pakistan, are presented and analyzed. The data highlight how representation changed before and after partition within the irrigation bureaucracy. The data show that the irrigation bureaucracy increas...

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Main Authors: Wegerich, Kai, Hussain, Asghar
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Informa UK Limited 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77801
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description Here, more than 100 years of incumbency reports on officers of the irrigation bureaucracy of Punjab, Pakistan, are presented and analyzed. The data highlight how representation changed before and after partition within the irrigation bureaucracy. The data show that the irrigation bureaucracy increased through staffing its representation of local communities and is in its appointments responsive to elected representatives. Therefore, it is argued that empowerment of the local community can be achieved without irrigation management transfer but through the irrigation bureaucracy itself.
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spelling CGSpace778012025-03-11T09:50:20Z Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan Wegerich, Kai Hussain, Asghar irrigation schemes technology transfer political aspects bureaucracy civil service public administration empowerment local communities rural population land ownership canals equity water distribution water supply Here, more than 100 years of incumbency reports on officers of the irrigation bureaucracy of Punjab, Pakistan, are presented and analyzed. The data highlight how representation changed before and after partition within the irrigation bureaucracy. The data show that the irrigation bureaucracy increased through staffing its representation of local communities and is in its appointments responsive to elected representatives. Therefore, it is argued that empowerment of the local community can be achieved without irrigation management transfer but through the irrigation bureaucracy itself. 2016-07-28 2016-11-22T04:18:46Z 2016-11-22T04:18:46Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77801 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Wegerich, K.; Hussain, Asghar. 2016. Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan. Water International, 41(5):662-681. doi: 10.1080/02508060.2016.1185890
spellingShingle irrigation schemes
technology transfer
political aspects
bureaucracy
civil service
public administration
empowerment
local communities
rural population
land ownership
canals
equity
water distribution
water supply
Wegerich, Kai
Hussain, Asghar
Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan
title Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan
title_full Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan
title_fullStr Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan
title_short Creating accountability: representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in Punjab, Pakistan
title_sort creating accountability representation and responsiveness of the irrigation bureaucracy in punjab pakistan
topic irrigation schemes
technology transfer
political aspects
bureaucracy
civil service
public administration
empowerment
local communities
rural population
land ownership
canals
equity
water distribution
water supply
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77801
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