#FasttrackingReform #statecapture #StateCaptureCommission Bill Tompson notes that term State Capture is misleading. Suggests that state is victim, yet politicians gain huge benefits from rent seeking practices @anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee
Tompson says three areas of reform: making rules, applying rules and internal organisation. Task becomes very difficult when it comes to state regulating and reforming itself.
Key point: Reforms take a long time and a long time to prepare. More haste less speed. Crises are an opportunity for reform, but reforms only succeed if groundwork has already been done.
Reform is usually about reforming the reformers. Hard to make an evidence-based case for change @anthonybut @brankobrkic
In OECD countries reforms work when public gets involved and when officials are brought on board.
Reform cannot be based on the assumption that officials are either all hostile or corrupt. Demotivates good officials. The corrupt will always find a work around. @anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee
OECD paper quoted by Ramaphosa was taken out of context. Overwhelming body of evidence for strong protections for public officials from political interference, says Bill Tompson @anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee @politicsblahbla
A rich man in Lagos is a government.
We need organisations and bureaucracies, yet politicians and officials capture the state who are not so much servants as contractors. Hence reformers are those that need to be reformed, says Falola.
So what do we do, asks Falola. These are long term processes, especially in low trust societies. Reforms are likely to fail in low trust societies.
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