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Author : Louis C. Gawthrop
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Executive departments
ISBN : UCAL:B3962060
Author : N. Joseph Cayer,David Baker,Louis Weschler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942456018
A concise, well-balanced overview of the field of public administration. A thematic approach using the swamp as a metaphor to analyze the difficult and ever changing environment in which today's public administrators much operate
Author : Martin Painter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230289635
Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world. They assess the impact of traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration.
Author : Jong S. Jun
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791481899
In this conceptual guided tour of contemporary public administration, Jong S. Jun challenges the limitations of the discipline which, he argues, make it inadequate for understanding today's complex human phenomena. Drawing on examples and case studies from both Eastern and Western countries, he emphasizes critical and interpretive perspectives as a counterforce to the instrumental-technical rationality that reduces the field to structural and functionalist views of management. He also emphasizes the idea of democratic social construction to transcend the field's reliance on conventional pluralist politics. Jun stresses that public administrators and institutions must create opportunities for sharing and learning among organizational members and must facilitate interactive processes between public administrators and citizens so that the latter can voice their problems and opinions. The future role of public administrators will be to transcend the limitations of the management and governing of modern public administration and to explore ways of constructing socially meaningful alternatives through communicative action and the participation of citizens.
Author : Kenneth McRoberts
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015014875671
The failed Meech Lake and Charlotteown accords, the creation of the Bloc Quebecois, and the stronger impulse toward sovereignty now point to a narrowing of options to Canadian constitutional renewal.
Author : Hugh T Miller,Hugh T. Miller,Charles J Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317478423
This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. Now extensively revised, it articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism, and toward democratic openness and ethics. The authors incorporate insights from thinkers like Rorty, Giddens, Derrida, and Foucault to recast public administration as an arena of decentered practices. In their framework, ideographic collisions and everyday impasses bring about political events that challenge the status quo, creating possibilities for social change. "Postmodern Public Administration" is an outstanding intellectual achievement that has rewritten the political theory of public administration. This new edition will encourage everyone who reads it to think quite differently about democratic governance.
Author : Cynthia Rayner,François Bonnici
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social change
ISBN : 9780198857457
The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.
Author : Ishwaran
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004476196
Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781421416359
An updated edition of the classic text on public administration presents practical steps for managing government effectively in an age of hyperpartisanship. Co-winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration The traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variety of non-authoritarian strategies. This growing gap between theoretical ideas and actual practice poses enormous challenges for front-line leaders struggling to deal with ever-larger expectations and ever-tighter budgets—and for American government in determining how best to hold public administrators accountable for their performance. The Transformation of Governance offers a new framework for reconciling effective administration with the requirements of democratic government. Instead of thinking in terms of organizational structure and management, Donald F. Kettl suggests, administrators and theorists need to focus on governance, or the links between government and its broader environment—political, social, and administrative—through which social action occurs. In this updated edition, a new epilogue shows Kettl urging political leaders to step back from the political barricades of hyperpartisanship to consider government’s contemporary dilemma: Is there any practical way forward for public administrators to manage government effectively? Reinforcing the ten principles of bridge building which he developed in the original book, Kettl adds an eleventh, which lays out five transformative strategies: redefining public law to promote public accountability; re-conceptualizing government agencies as instruments of leverage; launching government leaders as boundary spanners; using information technology for building authority and trust; and incorporating performance management into processes that drive collaboration. With a new preface from Michael Nelson, editor of the Interpreting American Politics series, this award-winning book will be sought out by public policymakers eager to read a leading scholar's newest insights into the field.
Author : H George Frederickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317459774
This book is designed to be the definitive statement on social equity theory and practice in public administration. Social equity is often referred to as the "third pillar" in PA, after efficiency and economy. It concerns itself with the fairness of the organization, its management, and its delivery of public services. H. George Frederickson is widely recognized as the originator of the concept and the person most associated with its development and application. The book's introduction and chapters 1-4 offer general descriptions of social equity in terms of its arguments and claims in changing political, economic, and social circumstances, and trace the development of the concept over the past forty years. Chapters 5-9 provide applications of social equity theory to particular policy arenas such as education, or to specific public administration issues such as the range of administrative discretion, the legal context, the research challenges, and social equity in the context of time and generations. Chapters 10 and 11 describe the current state of social equity and look towards the future.
Author : B. Guy Peters,Jon Pierre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134566549
Adminstrative reform in most western democracies over the past couple of decades has been characterized by bringing in market-based concepts of public-service delivery. This book looks critically at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. The contributors - experts on administrative reform - assess its scope and objectives, and also the ways in which these reforms have impacted on the traditional roles of elective office and civil servants. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and academics in Politics and Public Administration, as well as for civil servants and experts on administrative reform.
Author : Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0919618820
Author : David H. Rosenbloom,Howard E. McCurdy
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589014073
The prevailing notion that the best government is achieved through principles of management and business practices is hardly new—it echoes the early twentieth-century "gospel of efficiency" challenged by Dwight Waldo in 1948 in his pathbreaking book, The Administrative State. Asking, "Efficiency for what?", Waldo warned that public administrative efficiency must be backed by a framework of consciously held democratic values. Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State brings together a group of distinguished authors who critically explore public administration's big ideas and issues and question whether contemporary efforts to "reinvent government," promote privatization, and develop new public management approaches constitute a coherent political theory capable of meeting the complex challenges of governing in a democracy. Taking Waldo's book as a starting point, the authors revisit and update his key concepts and consider their applicability for today. The book follows Waldo's conceptual structure, first probing the material and ideological background of modern public administration, problems of political philosophy, and finally particular challenges inherent in contemporary administrative reform. It concludes with a look ahead to "wicked" policy problems—such as terrorism, global warming, and ecological threats—whose scope is so global and complex that they will defy any existing administrative structures and values. Calling for a return to conscious consideration of democratic accountability, fairness, justice, and transparency in government, the book's conclusion assesses the future direction of public administrative thought. This book can stand alone as a commentary on reconciling democratic values and governance today or as a companion when reading Waldo's classic volume.
Author : Charles T. Goodsell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016192224
"The Case for Bureaucracy" vigorously makes the argument that the public servants and administrative institutions of government in America are among the best in the world. Contrary to popular myth, they are not sources of great waste or threat to liberty, but social assets of critical value to a functioning democracy. In presenting his case, Goodsell covers many aspects of public administration and draws on current events to bring the material alive and up-to-date. This new edition incorporates September 11th and its consequences for public administration. Also a complete assessment is made of the Reinventing Government movement and related reforms.
Author : Jon Pierre,Patricia W. Ingraham
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773583849
Providing important insights into the origins of policy ideas, the qualities and capabilities of leaders, the nature and challenges of large organizational changes, and the complexity of efforts to evaluate the outcomes of reform, the contributors consider aspects of public administration reform in countries such as Canada, Thailand, Mexico, and China as well as the ways in which changes have been shaped by global forces, national values, traditions, and culture. An invaluable work for understanding the new challenges faced by the governments around the world, Comparative Administration Change and Reform offers a clear analysis of both the successes and failures of reform and should be read by anyone interested in politics, administration, and public sector reform.
