Coping with Political Interference, Resource Scarcity, and Ambiguity: Governance in the Former Tribal Regions of Pakistan

• In Event: Developing Country Regime Transitions

Brief Overview

We focus on governance in the former tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan and utilize Lipsky’s street-level bureaucracy framework to show how frontline public employees cope with conditions of weak autonomy, resource scarcity, and high ambiguity.

Authors

• Obed Pasha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Ramya Ramanath, DePaul University