administrative capacity

collocation in English

meaningsofadministrativeandcapacity

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administrative
adjective
uk
/ədˈmɪn.ɪ.strə.tɪv/
us
/ədˈmɪn.ə.strə.t̬ɪv/
relating to the arrangements and work that is needed to control the operation of a plan ...
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capacity
noun
uk
/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/
us
/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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(Definition ofadministrativeandcapacityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofadministrative capacity

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The recurring inability to efficiently collect pension contributions is a striking example of limitedadministrativecapacitythat undermines policy implementation.
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The tariff required lessadministrativecapacitythan other taxes to collect.
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This phenomenon can be understood in the general context of limitedadministrativecapacitydiscussed above.
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Overall, limitedadministrativecapacityalso creates obstacles at the implementation level while limiting the options for future reform.
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They have exercised their veto motivated, in part, by concerns about municipal financial andadministrativecapacity.
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There were, to be sure, many ways that one could articulate this expansion of stateadministrativecapacity.
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Norwegian municipalities in general had to struggle with a particularly precarious financial andadministrativecapacity.
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Second and relatedly, the forestry service experienced a significant increase in personnel andadministrativecapacity.
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Whether the structure of a new policy creates newadministrativecapacityor changes the boundaries of existing institutional jurisdiction, there are implications for future reforms.
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Compatible institutional interests, such as shared policy goals, carry the potential for newadministrativecapacityand new policy.
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These grants have encouraged the development ofadministrativecapacityat the provincial level while allowing provincial leaders to claim credit for social programs.
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First, it required very littleadministrativecapacityto collect.
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The present article, which also highlights the limitations of the colonial state'sadministrativecapacity, does not, however, focus on factionalism within the state apparatus.
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Administrativecapacityhas further benefited from the regional government's policy of looking outside the region for bureau heads when suitable local candidates cannot be found.
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Changes internationally and in the region during the early 1990s broadened governance-related concerns beyond merely strengthening states' technical andadministrativecapacityto include promoting democracy.
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Secondly, high level ofadministrativecapacitycould increase countries' ability both to implement and to resist implementation.
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So, too, isadministrativecapacity.
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Genuine "autonomy," witnessed nowhere more than in theadministrativecapacityto innovate, requires the formation of distinct state identities.
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This must be prioritised, and the country'sadministrativecapacitymust be developed and expanded.
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