scholarly journals Are businessmen a benefit to public policy? And if so, what specifically can they offer?

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 02062
Author(s):  
Jan Urban
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Revolving Doors

Research background: The closer interaction between business and government has, on a global basis, drawn attention to the “revolving doors” issue, i.e. the movement of persons between high posts in the public and private sectors. Purpose of the article: The main research question of this study covers the issue whether successful businessmen do or do not have better prospects for more effective political governance and economic policy making than career politicians or political professionals, and/or if politics and business require, for achieving their goals, similar or substantially different personal requirements. Methods: The survey was based on multidisciplinary qualitative comparative approach and literature research, covering historical, economics, management, and psychological views. This method corresponds the complex nature of the topics surveyed. Findings & Value added: The findings arrived to the conclusion that even a person successful in business may not necessarily have the expertise for effective public administration as well as sound public policy decisions. It showed that the opposite idea, coming often from businessmen circles themselves, fails to take into consideration that government, due to several reasons, cannot be operated like a business and many characteristics of successful businessmen do not fit well to high political posts, due both to their management style and “professional blindness” in terms of their approach to economic policy, e.g. international trade. Even though many management methods of successful companies can and should be taken over by the state/public administration, this goal can be achieved without the direct personal involvement of professional businessmen.

scholarly journals Hospital Building Maintenance Management Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.29) ◽  
pp. 747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullateef Olanrewaju ◽  
Wong Wai Fang ◽  
Seong Yeow Tan
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Hospital Building ◽  
Maintenance Model

Wellness of the patients correlated with the hospital building performance. For building to achieve it design objectives and provide value added services to owners, users and other stakeholders, maintenance functions are strategic. As a result, management of the maintenance of hospital buildings is a delicate and expensive task to perform. Despite the fact that there is a lack of representative data on the maintenance of hospital buildings in Malaysia, there is a growing concern surrounding the subject. Fire outbreaks and decay in hospital buildings suggest a need to conduct critical research to investigate the maintenance management practices of hospital buildings. This paper reports part of an ongoing research that aims to develop a maintenance model for hospital buildings. Hence, this current research reports the results of literature reviews and observations on hospital buildings in Malaysia and their maintenance practices. Upon reviewing the literature, a conceptual framework of maintenance model for hospital buildings was proposed. The research found that the current approaches to maintenance management in the hospital buildings were corrective, fragmented, cost-driven and expensive. The procurement of maintenance services was mainly outsourcings. All these call into question, the decision making processes of the hospital maintenance organisations. Collectively, the above considerations have led to the formulation of the main research question- what are the critical success factors [CSFs] for the maintenance of hospital buildings? The current study also discussed a proposed research methodology for the main research. Furthermore, issues pertaining to the research design, ontology and epistemology were briefly discussed. It was established that to enrich the findings of the main research, it was imperative to collect primary data using both quantitative and qualitative research paradigms. 

scholarly journals The art of good governance: how images from the past provide inspiration for modern practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gjalt de Graaf ◽  
Hanneke van Asperen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Governance Practice

Since the early 1990s, discourse on ‘good governance’ has become more prevalent. What ‘good governance’ means and entails, however, and when we can speak of ‘good’ governance in this discourse, is not always clear. Many scholars in public administration and other social sciences writing about good governance have used visual interpretations of good governance from centuries ago to illustrate their case in point. Here, we also use pictures from the past – Lorenzetti’s Sienese frescoes to be more precise – yet, not as an illustration, but as the core of the argument. Our main research question is: how can Lorenzetti’s frescoes of Good Governance inspire our modern-day conception of good governance? We conclude that good governance is governance by good governors, and good governors are governors guided by benevolence. We end with a discussion of what that entails for modern-day governance practice. Points for practitioners Governance without integrity violations is not necessarily good governance. Benevolence is needed for that.

scholarly journals The Islamic External Critics of Public Administration

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Naim Nusair
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Protective Mechanisms ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The Government

"Whence did you enslave people who were born free?" (Umar Ibn-al-Khattab)The growth of public administration and the increasing influence ofadministrative agencies on public policy make the perennial politicalproblem of the control of administration more important than ever.Governmental activities nowadays touch so many people, in so manyways, that citizens' dissatisfaction with administration is inevitable.Many countries have sought protections and safeguards againstoppressive, mistaken, or careless exercise of public authority.Although the bureaucrats act as a leveling and rationalizing force,they are susceptible to certain persistent maladies. W.A. Robson hasidentified these as excessive sense of self-importance; indifference to thefeelings or convenience of others, obsessive to established practiceregardless of resulting hardships, persistent addiction to formality, andastigmatic inability to perceive the totality of the government because ofpreoccupation with one of its parts. When these maladies exist, theymay not be instantly recognized and treated, because administrativework often occurs beyond the gaze of professional observers. Moreover,many of the individuals with whom administrators deal offensively arelikely to be anonymous and the injustices invisible.The purpose of this study is to show that Islam had developedprominent external critics of administration long before the majorcountries had developed their current protective mechanisms againstbureaucratic excesses. The main objective is to integrate the majorIslamic critics of administration found in lslamic literature .andtheir current equivalent in modern countdea so that they become morecompatible with the contextual timing and demands of dailyadministrative life. A comparative approach will facilitate the ...

Searching for social equity among public administration mission statements

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-125
Author(s):  
Tyrone P Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Administration Programs

The main research question considered in this article is the relative prominence of social equity among public administration curricula via an examination of program mission. It has long been asserted that social equity is a key component of public administration education so much so that the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) made social equity a fourth pillar of public administration. The article points to a serious dilemma faced within the discipline, namely the unequal geographic distribution of social equity mission statements at the program level, while at the same time promoting it as essential to the discipline nationally. Based on an analysis of 184 public administration programs, this article advocates for a continued commitment and dedicated resources to promote social equity across smaller Masters of Public Administration programs.

scholarly journals Tendencje centralizacyjne w Polsce po 1990 roku – ciągłość i zmiana

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Jacek Wojnicki ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Strong State ◽  
State Administration ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Reforms

The article discusses the issue of centralization tendencies in Poland. It constitutes an attempt to present this process in the context of the functioning of public administration in our country. The main research question is whether centralization was constantly present during the 30 years of creating a new model of public administration in Poland, or whether it was strengthened after 2015. The financial independence of local government units is also a crucial aspect of the analysis. The article correspondingly focuses on the resistance of the government administration during the implementation of local government reforms. Importantly, what is factored in as well is the change in the perception of the position and the role of local governments in the political system after the 2015 parliamentary elections by the new government camp. Analysis of the past provided the precedent premises for strong centralization tendencies, in particular, the traditions of the strong state administration of the Second Polish Republic after the May coup in 1926 and during the People's Republic of Poland.

scholarly journals THE STRUCTURE OF THE STATE ECONOMIC POLICY OF UKRAINE IMPLEMENTATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
J. Kornilova
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Current Model ◽  
The State ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to the analysis of the structure of the state economic policy of Ukraine implementation. The research uses a wide range of general and special legal methods and techniques of scientific research, in particular: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction; comparative legal, structural-functional, formal-dogmatic methods. As a result of the study, the author substantiates the scientific position that determining the structure of economic policy of Ukraine and its elements, ensuring their coordinated interaction is a priority in the effective functioning of this area of public policy of Ukraine. Unfortunately, the current model of Ukraine's state economic policy in Ukraine is not able to ensure its effectiveness. As a model, it is proposed to take the one developed by German scientists, which provides for the consistent interaction of such elements of the structure of public policy as a strategy, a plan, the implementation of the plan and a report on the implementation of the plan. This model of implementation of economic policy of Ukraine should be the basis for public administration of the economy of Ukraine. Legal support of public administration by economic policy of Ukraine needs to be streamlined and strengthened. According to the author, this goal can be achieved through the adoption, first of all, of the National Strategy for Economic Development of Ukraine, which will become a strategic document. It should specify the purpose, goals, strategic objectives and principles of state economic policy of Ukraine. Based on it, plans for the implementation of this National Strategy should be developed as tactical documents. They should identify step-by-step measures to implement this strategy. Keywords: economy, state policy, administrative law, a structure, legislation.

The neglected variable. The coevolution of public administration and political parties in the UK and Italy (1950–2010)

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Eugenio Pizzimenti ◽  
Enrico Calossi
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Party Change ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Party Organizations

AbstractThe relationships between the State and political parties have often been analysed in dual terms. Yet, as Katz and Mair already noticed in their well-known (and criticized) article on the emergence of the cartel party, a clear separation between parties and public institutions has never been completely achieved, in the evolution of liberal democracies. In contrast, while parties act as agencies of institutionalization, public institutions recognize (de jure or de facto) parties as the legitimate actors of political representation. From this perspective, it is worth considering party change as a process intertwined also with institutional change. To date, however, the analysis of such a relationship has been neglected by political scientists, who have privileged explanations of party change based on other factors, whether at systemic or at a micro level. By avoiding a priori assumptions about causality, our main research question is the following: is it possible to identify patterns of co-evolution between State institutions – more specifically, public administration – and party organizations? Building on a new institutional approach to organization theory, the aim of this article is to investigate to what extent the evolution in the size of party organizations and in the size of public administration has followed similar trajectories. Our study focuses on the United Kingdom and Italy, from 1950 to 2010. Our findings confirm that parties' external face expands when public spending and the number of public employees increase, and vice-versa. The same holds for parties' internal face, at least in the Italian case.

Advokasi Aliansi Masyarakat Sipil: Kegagalan Merebut Aksesibilitas Pengelolaan Corporate Social Responsibility Melalui Peraturan Daerah

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ahmad Shodikin ◽  
Susetiawan Susetiawan
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Civil Society Organization ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Corporate Social

Alliance of Civil Society Organization (ACSO) Bojonegoro is striving to solve the problem by advocating the CSR issue which have more fair and sustainable through public policy (local regulation) about CSR. The main research question is how the advocacy by ACSO in obtaining the access of CSR management using the local regulation? This research uses qualitative approach and utilize various primary data from interviews and observations, also secondary data from news and documentation. This article shows that the CSR advocacy through local regulation in Bojonegoro district was not successful. The relation between ACSO and DPRD was not harmonious. The DPRD chose to ratify the draft of CSR management that has been formulated by the DPRD members. The political parties inside DPRD were stronger to force and formulate public policy of CSR.

Public administration reform in Macedonia

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Cierco
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The State ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
Balkan Countries

The Western Balkan countries have made important steps in the advancement of democracy. However, public administration remains a field where reforms progress very slowly, due to a combination of reasons, ranging from economic and political to cultural ones. Macedonia is not an exception. This paper analyzes the main reasons for the slow pace of reforms in Macedonia’s public administration sector. The focus on public administration and the state contributes to understanding the priority of establishing a professional, efficient and transparent public administration system in a country in the process of European accession. The main research question is why reforms in Macedonia’s public administration sector have been so difficult to implement.

scholarly journals Formation of digital competencies in the public policy sphere: the EU and Russia experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 06006
Author(s):  
Svetlana Morozova ◽  
Alexander Kurochkin
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Digital Competencies ◽  
Science Methodology

Research background: Today information technologies occupy many spheres of human activity, including political government systems. The new digital reality requires a revision of the political and economic science methodology and a transition to a new paradigm that meets the challenges of information globalization. Purpose of the article: The article is devoted to the study of the European and Russian experience in teaching digital skills to citizens and civil servants. The need to improve existing digital competencies in the context of widespread digitalization is determined. Methods: The main research method is a comparative analysis of the European and Russian approaches to the digital competencies formation in the sphere of public administration and politics, emerging and transforming under the influence of widespread globalization and digitalization. Particular attention is paid to state strategies, programs and projects aimed at digital development and modernization of all areas of society. Findings & Value added: On the basis of the study, the authors formulated the European and Russian models of teaching digital competencies, focusing on the sphere of public administration and politics, highlighted the disadvantages of the Russian model and the advantages of the European approach, and also offered recommendations on the prospects for the spread of European practice in Russian conditions.

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