Ministers, Civil Servants and the Constitution

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 676-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon Bogdanor
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Electoral Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Comparative Government ◽  
Seminal Article ◽  
The Individual

Sammy Finer Contributed To so Many Areas of political science – comparative government, international relations, sociological theory, electoral studies – that it is often forgotten that his first love was public administration, the subject of his first two books, his Primer of public Administration, published in 1950 and his biography of Sir Edwin Chadwick published in 1952. In addition, Sammy published a seminal article on ‘The Individual Responsibiity of Ministers’ in the journal Public Administration in 1956.In that article, written in the aftermath of the Crichel Down controversy, Sammy refuted what he called the ‘folklore’ that surrounded the principle of individual responsibility, showing that there was no convention of resignation for administrative fault, and that, in any case, resignation was an ineffective remedy for departmental mismanagement.

scholarly journals Governança: variedades conceituais

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Shin Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The Subject

<p><strong>Governance: conceptual varieties</strong></p><p><strong>RESUMO:</strong> A governança tem sido objeto de múltiplos estudos recentes nos âmbitos das Ciências Sociais, da Ciência Política, da Administração Pública e das Relações Internacionais. Não obstante, nota-se que esse termo é utilizado com imprecisão. Partindo do pressuposto de que se trata de termo com um grau de indeterminação, o presente artigo, pretende expor os significados já mapeados pela literatura e investigar as relações entre as definições encontradas. Pretende-se, ainda, identificar como as três formas de “conceituar” governança são trabalhadas pelos autores que se debruçaram sobre a questão.</p><p><strong>PALAVRAS-CHAVE:</strong> Governança. Meta-governança. Conceitos. Definições.</p><p><strong>ABSTRACT: </strong>Governance has been the subject of many recent studies in the fields of Social Sciences, Political Science, Public Administration and International Relations. Nevertheless, it is noted that this term is used with imprecision. Based on the assumption that it is a term with a degree of indeterminacy, the present article intends to expose the meanings already mapped by the literature and to investigate the relations between the definitions found. It is also intended to identify how the three forms of “conceptualizing” governance are employed by the authors who have studied the question.</p><p><strong>KEYWORDS: </strong>Governance. Meta-governance. Concepts. Definitions.</p><p><strong>Data da submissão: 12/05/2019</strong><br /><strong>Data da aceitação: 15/06/2019</strong></p>

Political Science and Public Administration: A Note on the State of the Union

1952 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roscoe C. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Russell Sage Foundation ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
Original Essay ◽  
The Subject

By tradition public administration is regarded as a division of political science. Woodrow Wilson set the stage for this concept in his original essay identifying public administration as a subject worthy of special study, and spokesmen for both political science and public administration have accepted it since. Thus Leonard White, in his 1930 article on the subject in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, recognizes public administration as “a branch of the field of political science.” Luther Gulick follows suit, observing in 1937 that “Public administration is thus a division of political science ….” So generally has this word got around that it has come to the notice of the sociologists, as is indicated in a 1950 report of the Russell Sage Foundation which refers to “political science, including public administration….” “Pure” political scientists and political scientists with a public administration slant therefore are not alone in accepting this doctrine, which obviously enjoys a wide and authoritative currency.But if public administration is reckoned generally to be a child of political science, it is in some respects a strange and unnatural child; for there is a feeling among political scientists, substantial still if mayhap not so widespread as formerly, that academicians who profess public administration spend their time fooling with trifles. It was a sad day when the first professor of political science learned what a manhole cover is! On their part, those who work in public administration are likely to find themselves vaguely resentful of the lack of cordiality in the house of their youth.

scholarly journals Bilingual cognitive map in the space of teaching public administration: a russian case

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (20) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Mariia Rubtcova ◽  
Oleg Pavenkov ◽  
Vladimir Pavenkov
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Cognitive Map ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Bilingual Programs ◽  
Closed Area ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Map Approach

The introduction of bilingual programs for future bureaucrats turned out to be a great challenge. In Russia this is one of the “classic” areas, in which the spirit of conservatism and collectivism prevails. In this area, the idea of teaching in English may be perceived with hatred: English can invade the closed area communication of offi cials, to make the excessive diversity of their contacts and violate patriotism and national identity. We used a cognitive map approach. It allows us to create diff erent kinds of cognitive maps and teaching materials for university students who need to learn in one course the terminology in both languages. The results show that the study of the subject/course in English is not harmful to the development of professional Russian language. It was confi rmed by the individual discussion in Russian. At the same time, the skills of reading articles in English were signifi cantly improved.

The Mexicans Speak for Themselves

1955 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-587
Author(s):  
C. Harvey Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Group I ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Or History

Anyone teaching a course focused on an alien culture has his hands full—be it economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, language, literature or history. The instructor constantly must ask himself: am I getting it across? That question, of course, is a normal one for any teacher but somehow it seems to appear more frequently and most frighteningly before the individual charged with enlightening some fellow Americans on the subject of some select foreign group. I remember the last time I got into that pattern of thought. That was the time I actually did something about it.

scholarly journals Współczesne reminiscencje absolutystycznego modelu policji administracyjnej

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Witold Małecki
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
General Competence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Police Activity

CONTEMPORARY REMINISCENCES OF THE ABSOLUTIST MODEL OF ADMINISTRATIVE POLICE The absolutist model of administrative police, perceived as a sphere of the activity of public authority, is based on two pillars. The material pillar concerns the purpose of police activity, which is to achieve overall prosperity including the prosperity individuals, in the shape specified by the monarch. The formal pillar concentrates on ius politiae — the general authorization of the monarch to perform each forcible interference in the sphere of the rights of the subject, intended to achieve overall and individual prosperity. Contemporary institution of forced evacuation corresponds to the material pillar of the absolutist model of administrative police, as it allows public authority to evacuate an individual in case of threat for their life, even despite the opposition of the individual. The institution of order regulations seems to be a contemporary reminiscence of ius politiae. In the form of order regulations the organs of public administration, using a general competence, are entitled to establish legal norms, the content of which is not specified in the statute.

The Position of the Insurance Press in relation to Insurance Offices and Insurance Interests

1881 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Cornelius Walford
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

I think the time has arrived when the subject indicated in the title of this paper may be fairly and fully considered. It is certainly one which must frequently have presented itself to the managerial mind; and there can be no reason why this question should not be discussed with as much philosophic calmness as any of the many theoretical problems, or points in practice, which continually present themselves for reflection, and perchance for decision.The point may indeed arise—whether I am the proper person to introduce the topic. I take the individual responsibility of deciding in the affirmative. I have, on the one hand, been as frequently assailed by the insurance press, as any one, and, on the other, received as much kindness and friendly recognition as any man can desire, and more than I claim to deserve. It may be that in either case the extreme has been reached, or passed. I have the advantage of having been a writer upon the press, insurance and general, from the days of my youth, and I say at once that my sympathies are largely on that side. But I think that the familiarity which draws me to the side of its virtues, also renders me, at least in some degree, cognizant of its short-comings. I have the further advantage of having been on various occasions consulted by managers on the one hand, and by editors on the other, upon the points which I now proceed to discuss.

The teaching of philosophy in public administration programmes

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edoardo Ongaro
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Science Management ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Key Questions

Public administration can be considered as an applied, interdisciplinary field, whose study demands the contribution of a range of disciplines, including political science, management, law, sociology and others. The article argues that the disciplines of public administration should also include philosophy, not as a discipline (philosophy is not a discipline in the sense modern sciences are; rather, at the roots of philosophy are key questions: what there is (ontology); who we are (philosophy of the mind); how to live well (ethics); how to live well together (political philosophy) and so on) but as the foundation of all the other disciplines studying public administration, from political science (whose roots are in political philosophy), to management and sociology (whose underpinnings are in ontological conceptions of the individual and society), to law (whose roots are in the philosophy of law) and so on. If philosophy is foundational to public administration, then two key questions arise: in researching public administration, what is the contribution of philosophy to advancing our understanding of public administration? And in the teaching of public administration, what is the place of philosophy in the curricula of public administration programmes? The article, after briefly reviewing the philosophical foundations of public administration, aims to discuss the latter question about the contribution of philosophy to educational and training programmes in the field of public administration, and the place of philosophy in public administration education curricula.

: British Public Administration

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hood
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Rigour ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Phoenix

This chapter discusses three possible interpretations of the development of British Public Administration over the twentieth century as a way of assessing its contribution to political science. Those interpretations are respectively labelled ‘dodo’, ‘phoenix’, and ‘chameleon’. The ‘dodo’ interpretation is a pessimistic fin de siècle view of British Public Administration as in serious decline from early promise and former greatness. The ‘phoenix’ interpretation is a more optimistic perception of the subject as advancing in scientific rigour and conceptual sophistication over the century, leaving behind the outmoded styles of the past. A third view, the ‘chameleon’ interpretation, is a picture of lateral transformation, with the adoption of new intellectual colouring and markings to fit a new era.

scholarly journals Aspekty dobra wspólnego w aktywności administracji publicznej

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 (3)) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Mariusz Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Dimension ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual

The article concerns the issue of common good in the activity of public administration. It is exactly the aspects of this “good” which have a direct influence on the motives behind administrative actions. It turns out that what is “common” can be understood as pertaining to entire society, but also in relation to individual interests. The public administration, although traditionally connected only to the public interest, also implements the good of the individual and this not only indirectly, as it has been noted in the literature of the subject so far, but also independently. Because the common good has its different aspects in the sense that it does not have to mean only values of a strictly general dimension. This may be significant for the definitional purpose to the very administration itself and testifies, at the same time, to the multidimensional nature of contemporary public administration. The considerations are developed with reference to potential relations of public interest and the individual one, in which the most important place is occupied by conflict of these interests.

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