Peter Fuseini Haruna
Biographic Data
| ID | 237361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Fuseini Haruna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Fuseini |
| FAMILY NAME | Haruna |
| SIGNATURE | HARUNA P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7478-0044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Context, Culture, and Governance in an Informal Community in Ghana
In its quest for development, Ghana must address socioeconomic challenges not of its own making, use resources it does not have, and apply externally imposed technocratic knowledge‐based solutions largely incompatible with Ghanaians' lived experience. Among the undesired and undesirable policy consequences are wide disparities in the development landscape reflected in marginalized settlements such as Old Fadama, the focus of this study. Drawing o…
Fighting pandemics
As the fight against COVID-19 marked its second anniversary in March, collaboration gained attention as a tool for preparedness and response. Most collaborative models derive from industrialized countries, and coverage in outlets remains focused on the Global North. To complement existing studies, the article asks how collaboration looks like in a development setting. It analyzes the policies of Global South countries, focusing on Africa, where t…
Revising the Leadership Paradigm in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Much of the discourse on leadership in sub‐Saharan Africa emphasizes leader characteristics, skills, styles, and behaviors, while ignoring the relationships, interactions, practical judgments, and unique contexts that make up leadership in everyday cultural community life. This essay argues that the focus on individual leaders hardly reflects leadership as practice in African communities. An alternative, pragmatic view based on unique historicity…
Recovering Integrity in Ghana's Governance
The conceptualization of public service ethics as based on a compliance-integrity framework originated in Anglo-American society. This idea is applied to examine opportunities and challenges of public integrity in Ghana. The purpose is to build on work done to give reflective attention to the Anglo-American model and provide comparable experience in a cross-cultural setting. The analysis shows that implementation of the model has not stemmed the …
Rethinking Administrative Globalization
The normative claims and promises of administrative globalization have nearly all fizzled out in Africa. With the exception of a few studies that question its viability as a model of governance for African societies, theorists have not done justice to the analysis of its implementation there. Using a critical-pragmatist perspective, this essay analyzes Ghana's experience and argues that a global administrative model based on instrumental rational…
Training Public Administrators in Africa
Much of the dialogue on public administration training in Africa is about how to prepare administrators to cope with pressures global forces exert without considering how to educate individuals to meet also the unique demands of public service. This essay examines the nature of training in Africa, drawing on Ghana's experience with management training programs. It first describes and critiques training based on bureaucratic and managerial perspec…
Reforming Ghana's Public Service
This article addresses how the public service can be reformed to make it relevant to the circumstances and useful to the majority of people living and working in Ghana. In many public administration journals, reforms in sub‐Saharan Africa have received scant attention. Using Ghana as a case study, this article first summarizes and evaluates that country's reform efforts and compares them to mainstream Anglo‐American reform ideas. The article comm…
Reflective Public Administration Reform
Recognizing limitations associated with past reforms, and taking account of current efforts at democratization, this article suggests that public administration in contemporary African society should be conceptualized more broadly than it has been in the past, and that it should include building relationships and bridging gaps among public administrators, citizens, and communities. Drawing from Ghana's experience, it argues that over-reliance on …
Reflective Public Administration Reform
Recognizing limitations associated with past reforms, and taking account of current efforts at democratization, this article suggests that public administration in contemporary African society should be conceptualized more broadly than it has been in the past, and that it should include building relationships and bridging gaps among public administrators, citizens, and communities. Drawing from Ghana's experience, it argues that over-reliance on …
Recovering Integrity in Ghana's Governance
The conceptualization of public service ethics as based on a compliance-integrity framework originated in Anglo-American society. This idea is applied to examine opportunities and challenges of public integrity in Ghana. The purpose is to build on work done to give reflective attention to the Anglo-American model and provide comparable experience in a cross-cultural setting. The analysis shows that implementation of the model has not stemmed the …
Rethinking Administrative Globalization
The normative claims and promises of administrative globalization have nearly all fizzled out in Africa. With the exception of a few studies that question its viability as a model of governance for African societies, theorists have not done justice to the analysis of its implementation there. Using a critical-pragmatist perspective, this essay analyzes Ghana's experience and argues that a global administrative model based on instrumental rational…
Reflective Public Administration Reform
Recognizing limitations associated with past reforms, and taking account of current efforts at democratization, this article suggests that public administration in contemporary African society should be conceptualized more broadly than it has been in the past, and that it should include building relationships and bridging gaps among public administrators, citizens, and communities. Drawing from Ghana's experience, it argues that over-reliance on …
Reforming Ghana's Public Service
This article addresses how the public service can be reformed to make it relevant to the circumstances and useful to the majority of people living and working in Ghana. In many public administration journals, reforms in sub‐Saharan Africa have received scant attention. Using Ghana as a case study, this article first summarizes and evaluates that country's reform efforts and compares them to mainstream Anglo‐American reform ideas. The article comm…
Rethinking Administrative Globalization
The normative claims and promises of administrative globalization have nearly all fizzled out in Africa. With the exception of a few studies that question its viability as a model of governance for African societies, theorists have not done justice to the analysis of its implementation there. Using a critical-pragmatist perspective, this essay analyzes Ghana's experience and argues that a global administrative model based on instrumental rational…
Training Public Administrators in Africa
Much of the dialogue on public administration training in Africa is about how to prepare administrators to cope with pressures global forces exert without considering how to educate individuals to meet also the unique demands of public service. This essay examines the nature of training in Africa, drawing on Ghana's experience with management training programs. It first describes and critiques training based on bureaucratic and managerial perspec…
Recovering Integrity in Ghana's Governance
The conceptualization of public service ethics as based on a compliance-integrity framework originated in Anglo-American society. This idea is applied to examine opportunities and challenges of public integrity in Ghana. The purpose is to build on work done to give reflective attention to the Anglo-American model and provide comparable experience in a cross-cultural setting. The analysis shows that implementation of the model has not stemmed the …
Revising the Leadership Paradigm in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Much of the discourse on leadership in sub‐Saharan Africa emphasizes leader characteristics, skills, styles, and behaviors, while ignoring the relationships, interactions, practical judgments, and unique contexts that make up leadership in everyday cultural community life. This essay argues that the focus on individual leaders hardly reflects leadership as practice in African communities. An alternative, pragmatic view based on unique historicity…
Fighting pandemics
As the fight against COVID-19 marked its second anniversary in March, collaboration gained attention as a tool for preparedness and response. Most collaborative models derive from industrialized countries, and coverage in outlets remains focused on the Global North. To complement existing studies, the article asks how collaboration looks like in a development setting. It analyzes the policies of Global South countries, focusing on Africa, where t…
Context, Culture, and Governance in an Informal Community in Ghana
In its quest for development, Ghana must address socioeconomic challenges not of its own making, use resources it does not have, and apply externally imposed technocratic knowledge‐based solutions largely incompatible with Ghanaians' lived experience. Among the undesired and undesirable policy consequences are wide disparities in the development landscape reflected in marginalized settlements such as Old Fadama, the focus of this study. Drawing o…
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