Introduction

This book breaks new grounds in investigating the role of Pakistan’s grassroots public administration structures and their quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial duties in supporting democracy in the country, through a theoretical lens provided by McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly (2001).1 Being in the advantageous position of simultaneously working as public administrators belonging to the District Management Group (DMG)/Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) and as scholars, the authors have been able to glean from their own insights from the field of practice as well as link the practice to theoretical scholarship rendered about public administration and new democracies. In the process, the book was able to make noteworthy contributions for scholarship and for practice.