Competing Values in Public Administration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeger van der Wal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Competing Values ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Equal Importance

Public administration theory and practice are been rife with competing values, and 21st-century trends and challenges create new value dilemmas. Values—standards and qualities that guide behavior and decision making—can compete for attention because they may be of equal importance to the larger public interest that administrative actors are aiming to realize yet adhering to each of them at once is not feasible or possible. Examples are transparency, accountability, equity, effectiveness, efficiency, and legality. Hence, administrative actors have to find ways to manage competing values at an individual and institutional level.

Assessing the capacity for public value creation within leadership theories: Raising the argument

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru V. Roman ◽  
Thomas McWeeney
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Leadership Perspectives ◽  
The Creation

AbstractIn recent years, public administration has been targeted by multiple reform efforts. In multiple instances, such initiatives have been ideologically couched in public-choice perspectives and entrenched beliefs that government is the problem. One unavoidable consequence of this continued bout of criticism is the fact that government currently has a noticeably decreased capacity of boosting creation of public value. Within this context, there certainly is an important need for approaches that would counterbalance the loss of public value induced by market fundamentalism. This article suggests that leadership, as a concept of theory and practice, due to its partial immunity to the private-public dichotomy, can provide a pragmatic avenue for nurturing public interest and public value within the devolution of governance, a declining trust in government and a diminished governmental capacity to propagate the creation of public value. While this article critically examines and assesses the capacity of different leadership perspectives in terms of creating and maximizing public value, its primary scope is not the provision of definite answers but rather the instigation of a much necessary discussion.

scholarly journals The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 960-979
Author(s):  
Udo Pesch ◽  
Pieter E. Vermaas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Opportunities To Learn

Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicked problems cannot be resolved by better administrative frameworks or methods. Rather societal matters are to be included in decision-making, for instance, by seeing societal opposition as opportunities to learn to deal with the planning dilemmas.

Regulatory Rationales Beyond the Economic: In Search of the Public Interest

2010 ◽  
pp. 38-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Feintuck
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Political Values ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Market Economics

This article contends that regulation in certain fields should incorporate and give emphasis to values beyond those of market economics. It is argued here that the frame of reference of the market is too narrow to encompass properly a range of social and political values which are established in liberal democracies and can be seen as constitutional in nature. Examples from fields such as environmental regulation and regulation of the media are used here to illustrate a range of non-economic values which have been, are, or should be reflected in regulatory theory and practice as a means of recognising and reflecting principles related to social justice. Such principles extend beyond, and may be antithetical to the practices, values, and outcomes of market-driven decision-making.

Citizen Participation in Public Administration

2005 ◽  
pp. 415-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hein van Duivenboden
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter is on responsive electronic government services. Various changes in the relationship between government and citizens will be discussed by examining theory and practice of electronic public service delivery initiatives in a broad sense. The increasing complexity of society, individualization, new expectations of citizens and the use of modern ICT all influence the behavior of governments in their relations with citizens. What impact does e-government have on some of the most important principles of good governance — such as principles that safeguard “access and transparency”, “accountability and legitimacy” and “effectiveness of policy- and decision-making”?

Case Study #4: Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Ken Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Gene Roddenberry ◽  
Common Goals

Star Trek began as a 1960s television series led by a swashbuckling starship Captain, an intellectual off-world first officer, and a multicultural, heart-of-gold crew. In the third of a century since its appearance on our home screens, the series Gene Roddenberry created has become a world-wide phenomenon.Star Trek is also a rich treasure trove of administrative literature: The setting — usually a starship, sometimes a planetary government organization. The characters are clearly delineated, colorful, share common goals, distinguish between their personal and professional roles and concerns, and serve well as archetypes for distinct organizational personalities. And the missions are clear, benevolent, in the public interest, and frequently controversial.As you watch an episode of one of the four Star Trek series, how many of these facets can you observe?That’s public administration, all right, but in a very different wrapper

Public Administration in Perspective: Theory and Practice through Multiple Lenses

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Breena E. Coates
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Perspective Theory

Reviewed by Breena E. Coates

Of Promise and Peril: Doctoral Study in Public Administration in the 21st Century

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
John R Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Recent Graduate

The author, a recent graduate of the Doctor in Public Administration program, shares his thoughts about what it means to study public administration in the twenty-first century. He hopes his insights, born out of more than a forty year-long career in the field—decades of work in colleges and universities as a faculty member, dean, provost, vicepresident, and acting president, as well as his extensive experience in teaching public administration at the graduate and undergraduate levels—will help doctoral students in their academic pursuits. More specifically, he hopes that his remarks will make Ph.D. students think more deeply about the promise of their endeavors and, on the other hand, give them advance warning about perils of the process and ways to avoid them.

Microbrook, Mesobrook, Macrobrook

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Jilke ◽  
Asmus Leth Olsen ◽  
William Resh ◽  
Saba Siddiki
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Explicit Characterization ◽  
Methodological Perspective ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
Effective Problem

Abstract This article assesses the field of public administration from a conceptual and methodological perspective. We urge public administration scholars to resolve the ambiguities that mire our scholarship due to the inadequate treatment of levels of analysis in our research. Overall, we encourage methodological accountability through a more explicit characterization of one’s research by the level of analysis to which it relates. We argue that this particular form of accountability is critical for effective problem solving for advancing theory and practice.

scholarly journals A Multi-Criteria Methodology to Support Public Administration Decision Making Concerning Sustainable Energy Action Plans

Energies ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 4308-4330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliano Dall'O' ◽  
Maria Norese ◽  
Annalisa Galante ◽  
Chiara Novello
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Action Plans
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