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Trends of Administrative Reform in Europe: Towards Administrative Convergence?
Get PDF From the late 1970s through 2000, remarkable revolution swept most of the countries through out of the world. In the global context is characterized by the triumph of market forces, by policies of reorganization, by programs of privatization, by projects of deregulation and liberalization. There have been fundamental changes in the theory and practice of public administration
Organizing to Serve the Public: Processing or Developing the Clientele?
Get PDFSince at least the time of the publication of Reinventing Government (Osborne and Gaebler, 1993), it seems that virtually every New Public Management book has echoed the cry that the public service must do a better job of serving the public, and of envisioning the public as the customers of their public sector organizations (Denhardt, 1993a; Aucoin, 1995; Seidle, 1995; Kernaghan et al., 2000). Even studies that are critical of NPM still observe that service to the public is a necessary component of modern public sector management (Charih and Daniels, 1997; Peters and Savoie, 1998). It has to be presumed that to serve the public is an important reason why public sector organizations exist. However, there seems to be something missing in the NPM conceptual approach to analysis of service provision. In this contribution the author focuses on an important but missing component. In the public sector, are we processing people or developing them? What are the implications of one approach versus the other
Book Review Essay: Managing Public Expenditures in Australia by John Wanna, Joanne Kelly and John Forster
No full textJohn Wanna, Joanne Kelly and John Forster 2000) Managing Public Expenditures in Australia. t. Leonards: Allen and Unwin. 352 pp
An Excursion Into The Public-Private Partnership Jungle: Stop Standardizing But Keep On Mapping!
No full text While the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is doubtless the most visible Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the public debate it is by no means the only one. A number of scholars have outlined the ambiguity of the PPP concept beyond PFIs and pointed to the multiplicity of differing types and understandings. Thus, when examining up close, the PPP concept seems to cover a jungle of arrangements and settings. However, induc-tive explorations across disciplinary and professional borders are still scarce. This ar-ticle addresses this lack and reviews more than 100 publications for their PPP concepts and classifications. Following, the article first of all identifies the emergence of two dimensions that are differently emphasized by the proposed PPP definitions (1) the co-responsibility dimension and (2) the relational governance dimension. Second, the arti-cle finds two differing approaches within each dimension being the interventionist and marketization approach within the co-responsibility dimension and the structural and managerial approach in the relational governance dimension. Third, the reviewed vari-ety of classifications illustrates the infinitive number of criteria that can be used to order the within-concept variety. Thus, while the developed map in this article highlights some (re)occurring and uniting patterns it also points to the inevitable ambiguity of the PPP concept and consequently encourages scholars to stay precise and keep on mapping
The Role of European Governments in Addressing Youth Unemployment
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to summarize existing literature and findings on the nature and causes of youth unemployment in Europe today, and the role of European Governments in addressing employment issues. The review focuses on four aspects of the issue: the link between youth unemployment and EU structural and behavioral challenges; the dimensions of informal youth employment, including how to define it, what is the extent of it, and to what extent is it taken into account in unemployment data (or is it omitted like data on discouraged workers); structural changes in the nature of industries, labor markets, and global economic competition that are eliminating whole categories of jobs on the one hand, and adding new ones on the other (but not nearly fast enough); and the available evidence that policy measures adopted to date have been effective in addressing these challenges. Finally, some next steps are proposed, including sketching out a survey methodology to address some of the knowledge gaps facing policymakers today
Cacares, B. & Ear, S. (2013). The hungry dragon: How China's resource quest is reshaping the world. New York, NY: Routledge.
Get PDFThe Role of Supreme Audit Institutions in Improving Citizen Participation in Governance
Get PDFSupreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) – key government agencies responsible for auditing how public funds are being spent – have been traditionally seen as insulated and technocratic entities serving other government organizations and having little to do with citizens and broader governance issues. This image has been slowly changing around the world in light of the broader transformations in governments’ roles, SAIs’ own practices, and increased public participation in governance. This article reviews why and how these changes are happening and barriers to the more productive collaboration between SAIs and the public. The article concludes with implications for practitioners and researchers
Building National Integrity Through Corruption Eradication in South Korea
Get PDFSince South Korea gained a substantial degree of political and economic development in recent history, the South Korean government has tried to eradicate corruption by introducing institutional frameworks in addition to a number of new laws and institutions. As a matter of fact, the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index score of South Korea is improving over time, but it still far behind other leading countries. The purpose of this article is to review the South Korean Government’s efforts for curbing corruption. This paper first reviews the development of major anticorruption infrastructure such as the anti-corruption legislation and the independent agency for anti-corruption in the South Korean government, followed by discussion of the development of major anti-corruption measures, the international evaluation on corruption, and the role of civil society for curbing corruption. After that, there are the policy implications and the conclusion
The Three Faces of Public Management
Get PDFAs an academic field, public management has several aspects: the one that we may refer to as the technocratic, for want of a better term. I shall call the second the social constructivist and, the last, the clinical or craft perspective. The purpose of this essay is to explain each of these discourses, how each would go about addressing the basic doctrinal issues of public management, and where each offers something uniquely useful to the practice of public management. It also offers an apologia pro curriculum vita sum, emphasizing my meta-theoretical beliefs about the pursuit our joint enterprise of researching, synthesizing, and teaching