BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND CORRUPTION

Author: Mohammad Mohabbat Khan

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2001v22n1a1

ABSTRACT

In many democracies far-reaching administrative reforms have failed to materialize. Desire to maintain the status quo by both politicians in power and senior civil servants, independent bases of bureaucratic power, increasing scope of bureaucratic intervention in the daily lives of citizens, organized resistance with the civil service and lack of interest of civil society have contributed in varying degrees to the non-implementation of reform measure. Corruption in different forms is prevalent in democratic countries. The nature and extent of corruption is causing many dangers to democratic systems. Consequences of failed reform efforts and prevalence of wide-ranging corruption have led to decreasing citizen interest in the affairs of the polity and the dominance of the state by few.