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'Genre blurring' in public administration: what can we learn from the humanities
Get PDFThis article seeks to broaden the craft of public administration by ‘blurring genres’. First, I explain the phrase ‘blurring genres’. Second, I provide some examples of early work in administrative ethnography. Third, I compare this early, modernist-empiricist ethnography with interpretive ethnography, suggesting researchers confront three choices: naturalism vs. anti-naturalism; intensive vs. hit-and-run fieldwork; and generalisation vs. local knowledge. After this general discussion, and fourth, I discuss the more prosaic issues that confront anyone seeking to use ethnography to study public administration and look at fieldwork roles, relevance, time, evidence and fieldwork relationships. Fifth, I describe and illustrate the several tools students of public administration can use as well as observation and interviews; namely, focus groups, para-ethnography, visual ethnography, and storytelling. Finally, I conclude that ethnographic fieldwork provides texture, depth and nuance, and lets interviewees explain the meaning of their actions. It is an indispensable tool and a graphic example of how to enrich public administration by drawing on the theories and methods of the humanities
Significant learning and public administration education
No full textThis paper considers online courses in human resources, public budgeting, and public procurement, within a public administration program, developed and taught during one calendar year at a public regional university in the southeastern United States. Each course had an underpinning of required reading, but also included individual and collaborative role-playing and simulation activities. The effect of shorter term online classes on the potential for significant learning, in public administration programs or otherwise, has not been fully explored. The research question is: What impact do short-term classes have on the potential for significant learning? A survey of students was conducted, and the resulting corpus was analyzed, using a two-cycle coding strategy. It is concluded that short-term classes may limit the ability of students to fully gain knowledge transfer and applied skill. There are specific concerns raised by study participants about work expectations that are voluminous, even given the accelerated nature of programs, and how this might undermine the potential for quality learning outcomes. At minimum, short-term courses raise significant potential learning-related issues, and show gaps between the expectations of a knowledge-transfer-centered program and the added value of significant learning opportunities.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe
Korean Program in Public Administration, Public Administration Center, University of Minnesota: Public Administration 1939-59-79
No full textUniversity of Minnesota: Public Administration Center. (1959). Korean Program in Public Administration, Public Administration Center, University of Minnesota: Public Administration 1939-59-79. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/119135
Challenges of Public Administration Accreditation in a Fragmented Institutional Setting: The Case of Europe
Get PDFThe paper is dealing with accreditation in higher education in Europe, based on observations in the European public administration accreditation field. Considering the existing evidence, there are positive consequences of accreditation, such as improvement of programs and teaching quality. There are also problems and weaknesses, moreover some doubts about the accreditation results. The author also predicts that in the future there may be a trend towards more homogeneity of public administration programs in Europe
Introduction to Public Administration
No full textA brief content of 10 themes is presented according to the syllabus of the academic discipline. The theoretical and methodological foundations of public administration have been given consideration. The functions and principles of public administration have been studied; the models of public administration have been described; the scientific bases of public administration have been formulated; the social aspects, morality and ethics have been highlighted; the essence of conflict and culture has been defined; the content of efficiency and effectiveness in public administration has been thoroughly investigated and defined.
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Where we stand: A review on equity in public administration and policy
No full textPublic administration identifies social equity as a foundational pillar of the field; despite many calls to action for research to emphasize equity, only 127 articles across 22 journals (11 Public Administration, 11 Policy) over the past decade (2009-2019) explicitly use the word equity in the title, abstract, or keywords. This review discusses the range of scholarship explicitly addressing equity across public administration and public policy. The paper depicts research gaps and suggests future directions for scholars to research equity. © 2020 SPAEF
A Changing Purpose of The Public Administration?
No full textThe public administration is still rendered inferior in comparisons with private actors, at the same time as its merits seem to have vanished from the political discourse. In order to understand this long-lasting critique of the public administration we develop the concept of the purpose of the public administration (PPA). The PPA serves as a foundational narrative in more policy specific debates. Our main argument is that what we define as a holistic PPA assigns to the public administration intrinsic value, while an instrumentalistic PPA assigns extrinsic value. This implies that with a foundational narrative based on an instrumentalistic PPA the public administration is perceived as exchangeable and therefore more open to hostile narratives. A foundational narrative based on a holistic PPA is more resistant to hostile narratives. An important part of our argument is that the PPA has changed during the last decades, from a holistic to an instrumentalistic PPA
Public Administration in Ethiopia
Get PDF"Building an effective, inclusive, and accountable public administration has become a major point of attention for policymakers and academics in Ethiopia who want to realise sustainable development. This first handbook on Ethiopian Public Administration is written by Ethiopian academics and practitioner-academics and builds on PhD studies and conference papers, including studies presented at the meetings of the Ethiopian Public Administration Association (EPAA), established in 2016.
Public Administration in Ethiopia presents a wide range of timely issues in four thematic parts: Governance, Human Resources, Performance and Quality, and Governance of Policies. Each of the individual chapters in this volume contributes in a different way to the overarching research questions: How can we describe and explain the contexts, the processes and the results of the post-1990 politico-administrative reforms in Ethiopia? And what are the implications for sustainable development?
This book is essential for students, practitioners, and theorists interested in public administration, public policy, and sustainable development. Moreover, the volume is a valuable stepping stone for PA teaching and PA research in Ethiopia.
Achieving equality in progressive contexts: queer(y)ing public administration
Get PDFIn many countries, including the UK, the majority of legal impediments to equality for LGBT+ people have been removed, and legislation actively promotes equality for LGBT+ people. While a great deal of research and activism through public administration remains, rightly, focused on achieving political and legal equality in states where this is the case, we suggest that in progressive contexts research and scholarship now needs to move to “queerying" everyday public administration. Through an empirical study of housing and homelessness services in Scotland, UK, we show that the insights of queer theory, used to unpack the everyday ways in which administrative processes (re)create compulsory heterosexuality, as well as the continued direct and indirect discrimination LGBT+ service users may face, can open-up a new research agenda for public administration where queer theory can be applied more widely
Complexity Theory and Public Administration: What's New?
No full textIncreasing attention is being paid to the application of complex systems theories in the social sciences. Although this trend is less prominent in the field of public administration, some examples of the use of complexity theory in research in this domain can be found. This article discusses three central ideas in complex systems theory that are relevant for public administration research: dynamics, self-organization and co-evolution. After briefly introducing each idea, the article traces similar concepts in public administration research. It then contrasts them with each other, and discusses how they can improve our understanding of phenomena in public administration. Finally, the article explores how the manager's role is perceived in public administration and what insights complexity theory can add to that view
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