The Effect of Culture on the Workings of Bureaucracy: A Comparison of U.S. and Pakistani Audit Bureaucracies

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dc.contributor.advisorWedel, Janine R.
dc.contributor.authorAfaqi, Mian Muhammad Jamil
dc.creatorAfaqi, Mian Muhammad Jamil
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-29T18:42:27Z
dc.date.available2015-07-29T18:42:27Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis research studies the relationship between a bureaucracy and its host culture as a process contingent upon affinity between their symbol structures. Such a perspective allows viewing bureaucracies as institutions embedded in particular cultural contexts. It, further, enables studying how staff in bureaucracies constitute their social reality within the organizational environment and what impact that has for the workings of these bureaucracies. To explore these questions, I study and compare two audit bureaucracies: the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Office of the Auditor General of Pakistan as institutions groomed in two different cultures. In a theoretical framework provided by the institutionalist theory, I make use of the case study method to develop cultural-cognitive portraits of the two bureaucracies and to juxtapose and compare their institutional dynamics.
dc.format.extent315 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/9685
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2015 Mian Muhammad Jamil Afaqi
dc.subjectPublic policy
dc.subjectCultural anthropology
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectBureaucracy
dc.subjectCulture
dc.subjectGAO
dc.subjectInstitutions
dc.subjectPAAS
dc.subjectSymbols
dc.titleThe Effect of Culture on the Workings of Bureaucracy: A Comparison of U.S. and Pakistani Audit Bureaucracies
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplinePublic Policy
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral

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