About this brief
This policy brief is one of a series developed by the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), intended to contribute to a strategy for state reform. The series focuses on interventions to achieve integrity, democratic control and effectiveness in the public administration.
This policy brief summarises the arguments in a PARI working paper: Ryan Brunette (2024) Checking Political Discretion in Recruitment to South Africa’s Public Administration, PARI, Johannesburg
