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Bureaucratic Red Tape and Service Delivery: Root Causes and Solutions

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Bureaucratic red tape affects service delivery in Pakistan, and this research identifies its basic causes, systemic feedback loops, and economic implications. Root cause, SWOT, stakeholder, and cost-of-inaction studies show how procedural complexity, institutional fragmentation, politicisation, and inadequate accountability impair governance and fuel corruption. The research offers short-term digitalisation and transparency, medium-term structural integration, and long-term institutional restructuring to expedite procedures, improve accountability, and restore public confidence. The reduction of red tape is said to improve citizen services, investment, and socioeconomic development.

Source: Journal of Political Stability Archive

DOI: 10.63468/jpsa.3.3.52

Authors: Ahmed Ali Siddiqui, Syed Saif Ur Rehman, Javed Zia, Muhammad Ibrahim Ansari

Institutions: Harvard University, Institut Tadbiran Awam Negara, National Institute of Public Administration, National Institute of Public Administration

Language: English

Topic: Public Administration in Developing Nations

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4413340160

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