org/jasd ISSN – 2141 -2189 ©2010 Academic Journals Review Public administration: Local government and decentralization in Ghana Kwame Badu Antwi-Boasiako Stephen F. Austin State University‚ Department of Government‚ Nacogdoches‚ Texas 75962‚ USA. E-mail: antwibokb@sfasu.edu. Tel: 9364686605. Accepted 29 July‚ 2010 Public administration as an art is defined in the Ghanaian context regarding decentralization and public officials’ accountability. It examines decentralization‚ local elections
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The First World War’s (1914-18) devastation inspired US President Woodrow Wilson to undertake the ambitious project of designing a series of principles that would maintain everlasting international peace and stability. Amongst these principles was self-determination‚ the belief that all people have the right to choose their political destiny free from the interference of any external parties. Naturally‚ the announcement of self-determination was met with a wave of optimism amongst colonised nations
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Wilson supported antitrust regulations in which there would be governmental involvement yet overseen by the courts. The winner of the election of 1912‚ Woodrow Wilson laid the ground work for the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC). The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 can be summarized as follow: …. “ Section one of the act declares that contract or conspiracy that restrains trade or commerce among U.S. states or with foreign nations is illegal. Any person who
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Washington‚ Abraham Lincoln amongst many others. This was embodied all through the early 20th and late 19th‚ with the presence of the progressive presidents in the oval office. President Theodore Roosevelt‚ President William Howard Taft and President Woodrow Wilson had diverse levels of effectiveness on reforming our nation‚ however they had one factor in common; they were great leaders who promoted the growth and prosperity of our country. Theodore Roosevelt was in many ways a typical progressive politician
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Public administration plays a major role in the functioning of our community. It helps with the implementation of government policy to imply and prepare civil servants for working in the public service. Although public administration is a major source for the betterment of the community. Trying to grasp the idea of how public administration work‚ can be difficult because there are many fields that make up public administration. When people ask what public administration is? “It is a complex interdisciplinary
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Research Master in Public Administration and Organizational Science Master of Science in Public Administration and Organizational Science (MSc) Policy research? PhD? Find out by exploring core issues in public administration and organizational science. Combine theory with training in methods‚ and practice‚ working under prominent researchers. Combine work on the theory of public administration‚ policy‚ organizations‚ and public management with in-depth training in research methods‚ philosophy
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THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Like any other field of social sciences‚ the development of Public Administration as a study and also‚ as a practice is a response to evolving social contexts. As it is an eclectic field of study‚ it has adapted its key concepts and theories predominant in that period of time from the other fields of study. Thus‚ one can look at its development by identifying key concepts of economic‚ sociological and other studies that have contributed to how
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Today’s public administrators face many dilemmas in regard to ethical conduct. This is not because today’s public administrators are inherently evil. This is mainly due to the elevated level of scrutiny placed on today’s public administrators. Network television and the emergence of the internet have facilitated this scrutiny; however the blame cannot be solely attributed to these forms of media. Some public administrators make questionable moral decisions that help amplify the public perception
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laws; judicial and to interpret the and to execute or carry out those laws. There is a separate organ which will look after each function function‚ but the separation is not rigid. A complete separation would lead to perpetual deadlocks in administration. Thus there are various points of contact between all the three organs of the government to ensure smooth functioning of governmental programmes. With expanding complexity of the activities of the modern State‚ the Legislature is not in a
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discretion and administrative law. Bureaucratic discretion factors heavily into the administrative process‚ as public administrators try to put into effect what Congress makes (politically) through broad and sometimes vague mandates. Agencies are granted considerable discretion to take Congressional mandates and funds and put them into practice so as to produce a specific outcome. How public sector employees do this varies from agency to agency; but the number of variables involved in programmatic design
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