The Big Questions of Chinese Public Management Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 775-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Mingus ◽  
Zhu Jing
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Public Administration Review ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Chinese Public

In 1995, Robert Behn introduced American public administration to the need for common “big questions” to become a significant academic discipline, similar to the physical sciences. Chinese civil service laws were just being promulgated then, and so the discussion that ensued in Public Administration Review and elsewhere was not particularly salient for China. The largely U.S. literature did not take an international or comparative turn, yet it later became an active conversation in the Chinese literature, which is struggling to deal with its own identity crisis and the value of its research. Developing the big questions of Chinese public management research is extremely relevant in today’s environment because China is the world’s second largest economy, and their civil service has had significant time to mature. Chinese researchers have recently called for the development of domestically embedded (i.e., Sinicized) big questions. This article discusses the relevance of Behn’s questions on micromanagement, motivation, and measurement in the Chinese context and proposes alternate wordings of Behn’s questions to make them meaningful within the Chinese cultural and institutional context (while avoiding suggestions of replacing the basic Chinese political structure). Our hope is this discussion will spark a lively debate among the relevant Chinese research community.

scholarly journals Chinese Public Administration Review: Relaunching a Necessary Dialogue

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Holzer ◽  
Yi Lu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Administration Review ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Chinese Public

Since being launched in 2002, twenty issues of the journal have conducted a peer-reviewed dialogue on core concepts relevant to and emanating from the public sector that serves the globe’s most populated nation. Prominent academics from China and other countries have continually participated in that dialogue.

To the Question about Terminology Optimization for the Theory of Public Administration and Administrative Law in the Context of Understanding Efficient, Good, Reasonable Public Governance

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Юрий Аврутин ◽  
Yuriy Avrutin
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Concept Of Function

The article analyzes the approaches of the theory of public management and administrative law to such concepts as public governance, public administration and regulation, proves inexpediency of the use of the wide approach to understanding public administration; analyzes a pproaches to understanding control functions and managerial functions, suggests the author’s definition of the concept of “function” and “control function”, proves the expediency of using such concepts as functions-tasks and functions-operations. The author pays special attention to problematic issues of understanding governance as efficient, good, proper, reasonable governance, reveals general and specific content of these concepts, proves that they are conventional concepts and serve as qualitative characteristics of public governance and are of a doctrinal political-legal and axiological nature. As doctrinal concepts, they can influence modernization of the administrative law paradigm as a science, academic discipline, and a branch of legislation. The use of these concepts for instrumental purposes can help to specify criteria and indices, applied during the assessment of the status of public governance, actions and decisions of public administration agencies and functionaries, to the level of common sense, reflecting social feeling of citizens on the way to overcome estrangement between power and population, which is traditional for Russia.

scholarly journals Modern Models of Public Administration in EU Countries: Implementation Experience

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Valentyna Nykolaieva
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Eu

The comparative characteristics of European public administration systems are presented. Particular attention is paid to new models of public administration in EU countries: New Public Management (NPM); New Public Governance (NPG) or New public service (NPS); Good Governance (GG). Both positive and negative characteristics of these government models are listed. Successful reform of public administration is revealed through the creation of appropriate institutions and adherence to the relevant principles, procedures, and standards of public administration and values that should be guided by civil servants. It is proved that the sphere of organization of public administration and civil service in the EU has wide experience through the implementation of so-called «soft» standards. The focus is on highlighting effective tools for reforming public administration in the EU, their main functions. The implications of NPM implementation for European regions, which were adapted by Walter Kicker’s presentation, are outlined. The key features of the new public administration and the cardinal directions of administrative reforms implemented in each EU country are identified, as well as the improvement of the main interconnected components of the public administration system, which include: institutions; rules and procedures, processes and mechanisms for coordination of cooperation; personnel potential. The realization of the reform of the public administration through the reform of administrative procedures, the development of the civil service, the process of decentralization and agencification were clarified. In modern democratic states, managerial innovations are aimed at supporting market mechanisms for democratization of public authorities; market marketing (transformation) of the work of the state with the mass introduction of methods of state managerialism. In these government models, a customer-centric approach is put in place to develop an appropriate strategy based on consumer values, meeting expectations from service providers and implementing information technology.

scholarly journals The Quest for Results: Opportunities for Using Performance Measurement in Chinese Public Administration

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Stuart Kasdin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Performance Management System ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agency Management ◽  
Chinese Public

This paper examines the current situation of public management in China and the potential that management reforms might bring improvement. The primary goal of the paper is to examine the opportunities that incentivized performance measures have to enhance that agency management. The paper analyzes the conditions for how performance information can be fashioned into a metric, which is contractible. It then looks at the types of incentives that can be tied to the metric. It also considers the flexibility of the government agency, the central budget office, and the oversight entities, and the roles that each plays in ensuring successful implementation of a performance management system.

Public Administration as a Dynamic Balance and Integrative Science Across Politics, Management, and Law: Rosenbloom’s Framework and Chinese Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Lihua Yang
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Science Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese Public ◽  
Integrative Science

An identity crisis has plagued public administration for over a century. The core of the crisis is how to address the relationship between public administration and the three major related disciplines—political science, management, and law; especially the first two—and whether public administration is an independent scientific subject. By studying the discipline identity problem of public administration using the three-perspective framework of politics, management, and law developed by Rosenbloom, this article argues that the developmental history of Chinese public administration is also a history of the relationship between public administration and the three major related disciplines. Furthermore, after comparing United States and Chinese public administration, the article suggests that we can define public administration as a dynamic balance and integrative science across the three major related disciplines by placing greater emphasis on administration, public management, and the laws and rules of administration and public management. This new definition suggests that seeking dynamic balance and synthesis is the nature of public administration, differentiates public administration from other disciplines, and stresses its status as an independent discipline. Thus, we do not need to be frightened of this feature of public administration or reframe it but must instead admit that this unique feature represents a specific advantage of public administration. Furthermore, this view provides a new way to dismiss the nightmare-like identity crisis faced by public administration.

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