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    Local government bureaucracy: A comparative study of Tanzanian and Norwegian bureaucrats-attitiudes and behaviors
    (Mzumbe University and Agder College, 1997) Mpelumbe George; Jacobsen Dag Ingvar
    This report discusses the possible effects of regime type on bureaucrat’s attitudes and behavior, in particular the political role of bureaucrats. Using the classification scheme of Ferrel Heady, the report outlines possible links between regime type and bureaucratic behavior. To test these links, a comparative study of bureaucrats in local government in Norway and Tanzania was conducted during autumn 1993/winter 1994. A questionnaire was used to tap attitudes and behaviours of bureaucrats. In short we found that Norwegian bureaucrats seemed to be less technocratic than their Tanzanian counterparts. Additionally, we found that bureaucrats in both regimes acted independently of politicians, but in different phases of the policy making process. Norwegian bureaucrats tended to act more autonomously in the preparatory phases, while Tanzanian bureaucrats tended to act more autonomously in the implementing phase. These findings indicate that bureaucrats in both regimes act as independent political actors, but in a different fashion.
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    Management of local government in Tanzania: Some historical insights and trends
    (Research, Information and Publication Department, 1999) Warioba, Moses, M. D.
    I have written this book in the hope that people interested with the Management of Local Government may find it a helpful introduction to the subject. It will particularly be helpful to the undergraduate students in Local Government and all other people working in both Central and Local Government. The book should also be useful to post-graduate who are reading government subjects. The book however does not claim to give a holistic coverage in the field of Local Government. The coverage has largely been influenced by the contents of the Institute of Development Management (IDM) syllabus on the subject of local government administration for the undergraduates. Government - and especially local government at the present time - is an ever changing subject, readers are advised to read a number of other recent publications in the field. Nevertheless, at the end of every chapter some suggested further reading in specific areas is given. It would be a good idea to enhance the ideas given in this book through such readings. I'm quite sure that, with this, the study of local government becomes alive and interesting; without it, knowledge becomes static, or obsolete and meaningless. The organization of this book is such that, the materials are well organized under three distinct parts. That is, the PAST where the analysis has the historical touch in looking at the local government systems of the past and their influences on later systems. This is in chapters one, two and three. The PRESENT, this is the second part containing in it, chapters, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten. This part looks analytically at the present system of local government under several headings i.e. structure, corporate management, the job of Councillors, policy making in local authorities, central local relations, managing local government finances, and human resources management. Part three have in it chapter eleven. This part tries to predict the FUTURE of local government based on the current performance of the system so far. I hope readers will have a good time with the literature.