Download or read book Public Administration in Transition written by Demetrios Argyriades and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global developments over the past half-century have transformed public administration and brought it to maturity as an autonomous discipline at the intersection of many important fields of study. The trends and challenges which confront this discipline are analyzed in this festschrift, which honors Gerald E. Caiden and his numerous inputs to the field since his graduation in 1957. During five decades of research and teaching, Dr. Caiden's professional life has spread across four continents, contributing greatly to the development of scholars and professional practitioners throughout the world. Their advancement of our knowledge of the public sphere worldwide and support of enhanced practices, combined with Caiden's scholarship, continue to define vital aspects of contemporary public administration and its future prospects, both locally and globally. The administrative state, which peaked in the 1950s and 1960s, gave way to neoliberalism and the new public management during the 1980s and 1990s. Already this is changing, as new ideas and visions surface on the horizon. Likewise, priorities shifted, as this volume shows. Concerns with central planning, with control, command and direction, gave way to greater emphasis on decentralization, de-bureaucratization, and human resources development but also, lately, ethics and anti-corruption strategies. Due process, rule of law, defense against arbitrariness, and protection and promotion of human and citizens' rights have also re-emerged as fields of growing concern, precisely on account of government's visible deficit in these regards. We are constantly on the move, but whether our direction will lead to the 'garrison state' or to a democratic 'facilitative state', as one contributor argues, remains a central issue, which calls for exploration and debate. In paying Gerald Caiden the tribute he so richly deserves, this festschrift, put together by scholars from around the world, traces and accounts for developments and bring us up-to-date. It is a fifty-year perspective on a field in rapid change, a rich and varied compendium, which represents a valuable addition to the literature on public administration, a necessary tool for training and research, as well as a useful companion for students and practitioners of public service globally.
Download or read book Public Administration in Transition written by Gunnar Gjelstrup and published by Djoef Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration has changed radically over the last 30 years in organizational forms, role perceptions, practice, and the relevant research questions. Skillfully mastered public administration makes a difference in resolving conflicts, providing predictability, ensuring rights, and coping with problems of inclusiveness. This festchrift provides necessary information about public administration theory and practice, adding critical value to theoretical and methodological knowledge. The book demonstrates how a transformed public administration in practice makes a difference. It shows - through examination from various angles - how previous understandings of public administration have become obsolete. These changes are analyzed with a specific focus on four major research themes: (1) post-modern public administration, (2) neo-institutionalism, (3) fragmented local governance, and (4) method and methodology. The future prospects of public administration seem most promising if administrators are able to create ongoing dialogue with many parties. The book includes intriguing cases from the US and several European countries in order to illustrate how the theoretical and methodological approaches work in practice.
Download or read book Public Management in Transition written by Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is the first to examine how new trends such as “radical innovation”, “co-creation” and “potentialization” challenge fundamental values in the public sector. The authors bridge traditional public management approaches that tend to exclude social and societal problems, with broader social theories apt to capture new dilemmas and challenges. The book shows how the effects of new forms of managerialism penetrate the state, local governments, welfare institutions as well as professional work and citizens’ rights. It facilitates a discussion about how basic values are put at stake with new reforms and managerial tools. The book is ideal for postgraduate students in the area of public policy and public management with an interest in managing and leading public administration units and welfare institutions.
Download or read book Command Transitions in Public Administration written by James C. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of proactive strategies for management transitions in criminal justice and other public administration civic service agencies. These organizations have a unique need for managing transitions effectively. Compared to private organizations: they have a relatively high frequency of management transitions due to the terms of elected and appointed officials, and these new managers more often come from outside the organization. Through an mixed-methods study of criminal justice command level staff in New York state, researchers found a number of key components to successful transitions. Based on their study, the researchers prepared a set of guidelines called the Command Transition Matrix. This tool is aimed at police and public administration leadership. The methodology used to develop it will be of interest to researchers in Criminal Justice Administration, Public Policy, and Management Science.
Download or read book Public Administration Traineeship Transition PATT written by National Learning Corporation and published by National Learning Corporation. This book was released on 2020 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Administration Traineeship Transition (PATT) Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers that help qualified clerical, secretarial and administrative employees compete for a variety of administrative traineeships, including test subjects like: preparing written material; understanding and interpreting written and tabular material; verbal analysis; and other related areas.
Download or read book Public Administration Education in Transition written by Thomas Vocino and published by New York : M. Dekker. This book was released on 1982 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governance in Transition written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Public Management Service and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report analyses the nature of these reforms, their rationale and design as well as issues of implementation and evaluation"--Back cover.
Download or read book Administrations in Transition written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Government in Transition written by Reed M. Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a case study of the George M. Leader administration in Pennsylvania, 1955-1959, with particular reference to the administrative rather than the political changes that took place during that period. Governor Leader was more active in the reorganization of the central staff services in Pennsylvania than any governor since the 1920s.The most significant changes resulted from the establishment of an Office of Administration within the governor's office. This department embraced a number of staff and operating functions including central budgeting and program evaluation. Over half the text is concerned with the new function of program evaluation, which the Leader administration treated as a basic administrative process, requiring a structure and identity separate from that of the other staff functions. The author also discusses the traditional nature of the governorship in Pennsylvania, noting the changes that took place as a result of the political and administrative transition in 1955. These changes were in the form of personnel brought into the state service at all levels, the extension of civil service by executive order, the use of patronage, removal power, executive clemency, and other fiscal and personnel reforms. Other significant stare issues discussed by the author include the use of advisory groups, the nature of the governor's cabinet and staff, the role of "egg heads" in government, the merit system and its extension in a strong patronage situation, and fiscal policy. State Government in Transition is not only a valuable addition to the literature on state government; it is also a book of great practical value—particularly for the political scientist, student, government worker, or politician. An appendix with a comparative chart of the governors of Pennsylvania under the Constitution of 1874, which is still in effect, and an organizational chart of the governor's office in 1960 supplement the text.
Download or read book The Evolving Physiology of Government written by O. P. Dwivedi and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2009-06-20 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public services. This volume brings together some of the leading Canadian and international scholars of public administration to reflect on these changes and their significance. Providing a historical perspective on public administration in Canada, the volume examines the shift from a traditional model of administration to newer forms such as new public management and governance, and explores current debates and the place of Canadian public administration within a broader comparative perspective.
Download or read book Transitions in Public Administration written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intergovernmental Relations in Transition written by Carl W. Stenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of intergovernmental relations has changed substantially over the past five decades. It maintains a critical and evolving role in the US federal system as well as in public policy and administration. Building upon the legacy of Deil S.Wright’s scholarship, this collection of essays by distinguished scholars, emerging thought leaders, and experienced practitioners chronicles and analyzes some of the tensions and pressures that have contributed to the current state of intergovernmental relations and management. Although rarely commanding media attention by name, intergovernmental relations is being elevated in the public discourse through policy issues dominating the headlines. Many of these intergovernmental issues are addressed in this book, including health insurance exchanges under the now-threatened Affordable Care Act, and the roles of the federal, state, and local governments in food safety, energy, and climate change.Contributors interpret and assess the impacts of these and other issues on the future directions of intergovernmental relations and management. This book will serve as an ideal text for courses on intergovernmental relations and federalism, and will be of interest to government practitioners and civic and nonprofit organization leaders involved in public policy and management.
Download or read book Public Administration and Society written by Richard C. Box and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I. Introduction to the Central Issues: Context, Change, and Democracy 1 Chapter 1. Scope and Content of Public Administration 3 Instrumental and Contextual Public Administration 4 The Unique Public Sector 5 Coercion and Government 7 Scope and Content of American Governments 9 Chapter 2. Time and Change: The Environment of Public Administration 11 Predispositions and Freedom of Thought 12 Recurring Themes 13 A Picture of Change 15 Historical Peculiarity 17 Historical Similarity 18 Change and Economics 20 Chapter 3. Democracy, Citizenship, and Governmental Structure 23 Democratic Citizenship 24 Precursors of American Democracy 25 Toward a New American Government 27 Contemporary Public Service Institutions 31 Republican Form of Government 32 The "Vertical" Structure of Government 33 The "Horizontal" Structure of Government 34 Politics and Administration 36 Transition 38 Part II. Debate and Decision in the Founding Era 41 The Federalist Papers 42 Federalist Papers 10, 17, and 51 43 The Anti-Federalist Response and Tocqueville's Concerns About Democracy 45 The Ideas of the Founding Generation in the Present 46 Reading 2.1 The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 17, & 51 47 Reading 2.2 Introduction to The Federalist Papers Reader, Frederick Quinn 59 Reading 2.3 Interpretative Essay, W.B. Allen, Gordon Lloyd, and Margie Lloyd 81 Reading 2.4 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear, Alexis de Tocqueville 87 Reading 2.5 The Future of the American Bureaucratic System, Richard J. Stillman II 91 Part III. Community and the Individual 121 Reading 3.1 The Public Realm, Thomas E. McCollough 125 Reading 3.2 Barn Raising, Daniel Kemmis 147 Reading 3.3 The Nature of Community Governance, Richard C. Box 159 Part IV. Social Equity and Economic Efficiency 183 Reading 4.1 Unequal America: Causes and Consequences of the Wide-and Growing-Gap Between Rich and Poor, Elizabeth Gudrais 187 Reading 4.2 Introduction to New Public Administration, H. George Frederickson 199 Reading 4.3 Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice, Richard C. Box 207 Part V. The Public Service Practitioner in a Democratic Society 229 Reading 5.1 Practitioners, Richard C. Box 233 Reading 5.2 New Public Management and Substantive Democracy, Richard C. Box, Gary S. Marshall, B.J. Reed, and Christine M. Reed 249 Reading 5.3 Citizens and Administrators: Roles and Relationships, Cheryl Simrell King and Camilla Stivers 267 Reading 5.4 Transforming Citizenship and Governance, Claire Mostel 283.
Download or read book The Governance of Transitions The Transitions of Governance written by Martijn van der Steen and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is societal transition not simply a matter of change management or normal policy design? South Africa is living proof of the ability of a society to reinvent and reinstall itself. With the advent of new societal challenges, came the need for real societal innovation, especially in sectors where it was never deemed necessary or possible before. This book asks: What type of governance is helpful for developing new societal institutions and systems that can overcome systemic crises in emerging economies and fragile communities? What emerges is a compilation of chapters that introduce different parts of a solution which can be used in developing both a growing body of practices of ?governed? societal transitions and the associated transition of governance. The Governance of Transitions ? The Transitions of Governance, in part, aims to provide building blocks which government and society could use to develop strategies for creating sustainable outcomes. It considers what kind of leadership, organisation or methods for accountability enable new types of governance and what the most important barriers are.
Download or read book Bureaucracy and Society in Transition written by Haldor Byrkjeflot and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite criticism of inefficiencies and unlimited growth, bureaucracies still fill crucial positions in modern societies. This volume examines ‘varieties in bureaucracies’ across Europe, with a specific focus on the Nordic region.
Download or read book Transitions from Authoritarianism written by Randall Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baker and his colleagues provide a blend of the theoretical and the empirical evidence in an examination of the nature of bureaucracy under non-democratic, authoritarian forms of government, whether on the right, as in Portugal, or the left, as in Bulgaria. In all these instances, the bureaucracy was constructed to serve the distorted interests of centralized, unaccountable power. Following the remarkable spread of democracy in the seventies in Iberia, the eighties in much of Latin America, parts of Asia and Africa, and the nineties in the former USSR and the Warsaw Pact countries, the main focus was on reforming the economy and the political institutions. Distinguished scholars concentrate on the inherited bureaucracy--the arm of government with which the people most often have to deal. They highlight the undemocratic, and sometimes antidemocratic, nature of the civil service that is supposed to serve democracy. Others consider the nature of reform as experienced, and as needed, why there is no major policy for real reform of the bureaucracy in many countries, and the similar experience of reforming from the left and the right. Contributors discuss specific experiences as case studies and examine the more general question of what lessons can be learned from this unique perspective into comparative public administration reform. Essential reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and others involved with comparative government and public administration.
Download or read book Public Administration in Transition written by Tom Karlsson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article focuses on how common-sense knowledge is enacted by middle managers in order to make sense of contemporary public administration. Specifically, the article demonstrates how managerialization and market logics is embedded in actors' perceptions of public administration and becomes manifested through understandings and legitimations. The article presents an analysis of conversational data from middle management positions within a Swedish government agency. The analysis demonstrates how actors categorize a traditional hierarchy together with contemporary ideas of consumerism. It is also demonstrated how actors draw on legitimations of authority and mythopoesis in order to make sense of and to understand their managerial role within the agency. As such, the article contributes to contemporary public administration literature and its discussion regarding the effects of embedding marketization logics on actor and organizational levels as well as to ethnomethodologically informed literature within the social science and humanities.
