The Enterprise of Public Administration The Business of Public Administration By Alan Estacio Dwight Waldo wrote "The Enterprise of Public Administration" in 1979 looking back on a long academic career‚ but also as a reflection about the future for public administration. Can a 30-year-old book be relevant? • Several of Waldo’s comments are accurate about today’s issues • debt crisis‚ e-government and trust in government. • The modern U.S. is established on a foundation of economic growth
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THERE A PHILIPPINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION? OR BETTER STILL‚ FOR WHOM IS PHILIPPINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION? 1 Alex Brillantes‚ Jr. and Maricel Fernandez 2 I Yes‚ there is a Philippine Public Administration Is there a Philippine public administration? A number of our colleagues asked us why we are asking that question again as we were planning this colloquium. Indeed that question had been asked 20 years ago‚ and answers have been provided us by eminent scholars of Public Administration such as Raul de
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Anglo-American model or look at other paradigms. Political leaders and scholars have turned to a number of academic fields such cultural studies‚ sociology‚ economics‚ and political science in attempt to answers some of these questions. However‚ no other field of study will provide more insight into the development of these new government structures than comparative public administration (CPA). Simply put‚ it is the study of comparing two or more public administrations by using multiple disciplines.
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COMPARATIVE PUBLIC Structure ‚ 5.0 5 I 5.2 5.3 5.4 Objectives 1ntrod;uction What to Compare? Levels of Analysis The Range of Comparative Studies 5.4.1 54.2 5.4.3 5.4.4 5.4.5 Inter-institutional Analysis Intra-national Analysis Cross-national Analysis Cross-cultural Analysis Cross-temporal Analysis 5.5 Nature of Comparative Administrative Studies 5.5.1 Nonnat~ve E~npirical to 5.5.2 Ideographic to Nomothetic 5.5.3 Non-ecological to Ecological 5.6 Scope of Comparative Public Administration 5.7 Significance
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Sociologist use theories and paradigms in order to help better explain the social world. Paradigms shape the everyday view people have on the world‚ while theories aim more to understand a certain phenomenon. Sociology is a science guided by the understanding of social matters that have an effect on people’s lives by not only their own individual characteristics but by the environment and their place in the social world. There are five paradigms/theories that sociologist use‚ which are the following:
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MEANING ‚NATURE AND SCOPE Introduction Public Administration is a newly emerged discipline compare to other Social Science’s discipline. Public Administration has gained immense importance since the emergence of Administrative state. In Ancient Greek‚ Roman and Indian political system gave more importance to the concept of Administration. Kautilys’s “Arthasathra” contributed large scale in the administrative system; it deals every aspect of the state and its relation to subjects
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Studying the Models of Public Administration MODELS OF COMPARITIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONINTRODUCTION Before going to the models‚ it is important to understand the different terminologies used in the subject: 1. APPROACH: An Approach is based primarily on one central concept. That is thought to be especially useful in studying basic features of public administration. Approaches are general in nature. 2. MODELS: Models can be considered as a refined and more specific version of approaches
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Theory Development in Public Administration Guy B. Adams‚ University of Missouri-Columbia What impact has the "culture of modernity" had on the field of public administration? Guy B. Adams contends that the American cultural preoccupation with modernity has shaped the study of puhlic administration into an ahistorical and atemporal field that stresses technical rationality and has limited capacity to address critical questions facing society. This approach to public administration puts its emphasis on
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meanings‚ concepts of and ideas on Public Administration as a field of study and practice. Some well-known definitions of Public administration: “ By public administration is meant‚ in common usage‚ the activities of the executives branches of national‚ state & local government” -Herbert A. Simon “Public administration is the direction‚ coordination & control of many persons to achieve some purpose or objective” - L.D. White “Public administration is the action part of the government
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Q). Explain the scope of public administration. While reviewing the scope of public administration we come across 2 views: a) Broader view and b) Narrower view A. Broader view : in its broader view the study of public administration is conceptualized to include the areas and activities of all the three branches of government ie legislative‚ executive and judiciary. It refers to all the activities undertaken for the implementation of all public policies‚ civil as well as military. Acceptance
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