IMPACT OF BUREAUCRATIC STRUCTURE ON POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND GOVERNANCE

Abstract

The bureaucratic structure plays a pivotal role in the process of  shaping policy implementation and the  overall governance outcomes in the modern administrative systems.. This paper will explore the role of the hierarchical structure, the inflexibility and inflexibility of the operations, the presence of the strict rules in bureaucracy in the efficiency, transparency and responsiveness of the implementation of the public policy. Although this has been stabilized due to the positioning of bureaucracy, accountability and consistency in decision making, this has been matched with ridicule after delays, red tape and uncoursed to dynamic environment in the government. The research of administrative flexibility and the bureaucratic control is of great concern since it is analyzed to establish effectively the policy implementation. These aspects of such factors as decentralization, coordination mechanisms and inter-departmental between the departments are influential factors affecting the delivery of the public services. Other issues, which are tackled in the paper, include how policy distortion, the loopholes in the processes of implementation and the lack of trust and confidence to the governmental departments by the population might emerge due to bureaucracy inefficiency. Conversely, the reform as e-governance, performance-based accountability and participative administration has been found to contribute towards enhancing efficiency and output of the bureaucracies and policies. Based on the analysis of the past and the present version of administration, the paper analyses the need of having a responsive, transparent and citizen oriented bureaucracy in order that the concerned system of administration can lead in bringing a successful rule. This would apply to the general discourse under the general presentation field of the general public administration field because it brings in the knowledge on how the slimming down process of bureaucracies can be revitalized to reinvigorate ways of policy performance and sustainable governance.