Sameen A Mohsin Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 4404783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sameen A Mohsin Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sameen A Mohsin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI S A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1062-2105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Impact of Donor Engagement on Bureaucratic Ambition and Motivation in Aid Recipient Countries
Critical approaches to donor programming in non‐Western settings are essential to our understanding of bilateral and multilateral development administration. Greater emphasis on political analysis of aid provision and effectiveness is welcome, but there remains little emphasis on how working with donors shapes ambitions and motivations bureaucrats working in aid‐recipient countries, and a lack of evidence on how these shifts impact state capacity…
Political elite careers in Pakistan
Based on an original data set of 384 federal ministers and 360 provincial ministers from Punjab and Sindh from 1988 till present, we examine the career movements of political elites in Pakistan. We argue that formal institutions enshrined in the constitution pertaining to federal design, the electoral and party system do not provide a complete explanation for the movement in political careers. In fact, informal institutions such as clientelism an…
Democratic backsliding and public administration in Pakistan’s hybrid regime
Democratic backsliding has garnered significant attention in recent years (V-Dem Citation2023), though the relationship with public administration has received less attention. The emphasis of the literature has been on erosion in liberal democracies and less so on intra-regime changes in non-democracies (Waldner and Lust Citation2018). I take a case study approach to explore democratic backsliding within Pakistan’s tutelary hybrid regime, using W…
Creating an Oral History Archive of Government Work
The Women in Public Service in Pakistan (WPSP) oral history project records the professional life histories of women employed in public sector institutions. Our aim in this article is twofold. First, we discuss the nature of public sector employment (sarkari nokri) and review the data and literature on women’s participation in public sector work in Pakistan. These sources reveal that the trajectory of women’s employment in the public sector has b…
Political Parties and Decentralization in Pakistan
Why do politicians vote to decentralize power and resources? Drawing on structuralist and voluntarist approaches, we investigate why national party elites in Pakistan voted to devolve power to the provinces under the 18th Amendment to the 1973 Constitution but are hesitant to devolve meaningful fiscal and administrative power to the local level. We argue that the explanation for this disjuncture lies in Pakistan’s history of military experiments …
Citizen trust, administrative capacity and administrative burden in Pakistan’s immunization program
Pakistan has the highest infant mortality rate in South Asia, is one of two countries where wild polio is still endemic, and is ranked third for un- or under-immunized children. Why is this the case when considerable donor and government funds have been spent on Pakistan’s Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI)? Based on a year of mixed methods research in district Kasur in Punjab, Pakistan, we focus on vaccination as a site of interaction betwe…
Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan
Pakistan’s Health-Care System
Pakistan currently ranks 154 out of 189 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index. In this paper, we use a ‘political settlements analysis’ to understand how the distribution of political, economic and social power explains this ranking and the inequity in Pakistan’s health system. We investigate elite power struggles over the last seven decades to explain how ad hoc policy-making, instability, patronage politics and rent-seeking have led t…
Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan
How do ruling political parties accommodate their members’ demand for access to state patronage with a push for merit-based bureaucratic reform? I argue that political commitment to reform is contingent on electoral calculations within the party. Therefore, distortions in reform implementation reveal not only dynamics within the party itself, but also the significance of appointing the right bureaucrats to the right posts to regulate access to pa…
Driving participatory reforms into the ground
Political Parties and Decentralization in Pakistan
Why do politicians vote to decentralize power and resources? Drawing on structuralist and voluntarist approaches, we investigate why national party elites in Pakistan voted to devolve power to the provinces under the 18th Amendment to the 1973 Constitution but are hesitant to devolve meaningful fiscal and administrative power to the local level. We argue that the explanation for this disjuncture lies in Pakistan’s history of military experiments …
Driving participatory reforms into the ground
Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan
How do ruling political parties accommodate their members’ demand for access to state patronage with a push for merit-based bureaucratic reform? I argue that political commitment to reform is contingent on electoral calculations within the party. Therefore, distortions in reform implementation reveal not only dynamics within the party itself, but also the significance of appointing the right bureaucrats to the right posts to regulate access to pa…
Democratic backsliding and public administration in Pakistan’s hybrid regime
Democratic backsliding has garnered significant attention in recent years (V-Dem Citation2023), though the relationship with public administration has received less attention. The emphasis of the literature has been on erosion in liberal democracies and less so on intra-regime changes in non-democracies (Waldner and Lust Citation2018). I take a case study approach to explore democratic backsliding within Pakistan’s tutelary hybrid regime, using W…
Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan
Creating an Oral History Archive of Government Work
The Women in Public Service in Pakistan (WPSP) oral history project records the professional life histories of women employed in public sector institutions. Our aim in this article is twofold. First, we discuss the nature of public sector employment (sarkari nokri) and review the data and literature on women’s participation in public sector work in Pakistan. These sources reveal that the trajectory of women’s employment in the public sector has b…
Party patronage and merit-based bureaucratic reform in Pakistan
How do ruling political parties accommodate their members’ demand for access to state patronage with a push for merit-based bureaucratic reform? I argue that political commitment to reform is contingent on electoral calculations within the party. Therefore, distortions in reform implementation reveal not only dynamics within the party itself, but also the significance of appointing the right bureaucrats to the right posts to regulate access to pa…
Driving participatory reforms into the ground
Citizen trust, administrative capacity and administrative burden in Pakistan’s immunization program
Pakistan has the highest infant mortality rate in South Asia, is one of two countries where wild polio is still endemic, and is ranked third for un- or under-immunized children. Why is this the case when considerable donor and government funds have been spent on Pakistan’s Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI)? Based on a year of mixed methods research in district Kasur in Punjab, Pakistan, we focus on vaccination as a site of interaction betwe…
Networks of Effectiveness? The Impact of Politicization on Bureaucratic Performance in Pakistan
Pakistan’s Health-Care System
Pakistan currently ranks 154 out of 189 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index. In this paper, we use a ‘political settlements analysis’ to understand how the distribution of political, economic and social power explains this ranking and the inequity in Pakistan’s health system. We investigate elite power struggles over the last seven decades to explain how ad hoc policy-making, instability, patronage politics and rent-seeking have led t…
Political Parties and Decentralization in Pakistan
Why do politicians vote to decentralize power and resources? Drawing on structuralist and voluntarist approaches, we investigate why national party elites in Pakistan voted to devolve power to the provinces under the 18th Amendment to the 1973 Constitution but are hesitant to devolve meaningful fiscal and administrative power to the local level. We argue that the explanation for this disjuncture lies in Pakistan’s history of military experiments …
Creating an Oral History Archive of Government Work
The Women in Public Service in Pakistan (WPSP) oral history project records the professional life histories of women employed in public sector institutions. Our aim in this article is twofold. First, we discuss the nature of public sector employment (sarkari nokri) and review the data and literature on women’s participation in public sector work in Pakistan. These sources reveal that the trajectory of women’s employment in the public sector has b…
The Impact of Donor Engagement on Bureaucratic Ambition and Motivation in Aid Recipient Countries
Critical approaches to donor programming in non‐Western settings are essential to our understanding of bilateral and multilateral development administration. Greater emphasis on political analysis of aid provision and effectiveness is welcome, but there remains little emphasis on how working with donors shapes ambitions and motivations bureaucrats working in aid‐recipient countries, and a lack of evidence on how these shifts impact state capacity…
Political elite careers in Pakistan
Based on an original data set of 384 federal ministers and 360 provincial ministers from Punjab and Sindh from 1988 till present, we examine the career movements of political elites in Pakistan. We argue that formal institutions enshrined in the constitution pertaining to federal design, the electoral and party system do not provide a complete explanation for the movement in political careers. In fact, informal institutions such as clientelism an…
Democratic backsliding and public administration in Pakistan’s hybrid regime
Democratic backsliding has garnered significant attention in recent years (V-Dem Citation2023), though the relationship with public administration has received less attention. The emphasis of the literature has been on erosion in liberal democracies and less so on intra-regime changes in non-democracies (Waldner and Lust Citation2018). I take a case study approach to explore democratic backsliding within Pakistan’s tutelary hybrid regime, using W…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)