scholarly journals An agenda for rethinking mid-career master programs in public administration

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans-Bauke van der Meer ◽  
Peter Marks
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Professional Development ◽  
Career Programs ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Didactic Strategies ◽  
Different Levels

The pace of societal change and the development of societal challenges have speeded up considerably during the last couple of decades, with substantial impact on different levels, i.e. ranging from global to local, or from business to government. When focusing on the public domain, these changes and challenges have had a major impact on public professionals, who face different and frequently changing questions. Mid-career programs in Public Administration (MPA) have the mission to support enrolled professionals in dealing with these changes and challenges. This article is about the development of such MPAs. Both substantive and didactic development is needed. To counter institutional inertia it seems vital to institutionalize a regular rethinking and adaptation of curricula and didactic strategies. This article identified some important points of attention and some options to deal with these in order to continuously improve the contribution of MPA programs to relevant and effective professional development and ongoing professional learning.

Public service bargains and non-partisan ministerial advisors: servants of two masters

2020 ◽  
pp. 002085232095521
Author(s):  
Rose Cole
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Single Agent ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Distinct Subgroup ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Administrative Action ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Different Levels

To what extent can the public service bargain framework be applied to non-partisan ministerial advisors? Public service bargains are defined as ‘explicit or implicit agreements between public servants – the civil or uniformed services of the state – and those they serve’. The public service bargain framework has increasingly been used as an analytical tool with which to examine the elements of the bargain as experienced by various actors in different jurisdictions. The elements of the public service bargain framework are explored through the experiences of a distinct subgroup of non-partisan advisors – portfolio private secretaries – serving in the politicised environment of ministers’ offices. The minister’s office has been characterised as the ‘purple zone’ where politics (represented by the colour blue) and administration (represented by the colour red) converge to transform political will into administrative action. This qualitative research article: briefly reviews the public service bargain literature; describes the actors and setting; gives voice to their experience of the public service bargain; applies the public service bargain heuristic; and reveals new insights into how the public service bargain operates with dual principals. Points for practitioners The public service bargain framework allows for dual principal–single agent relationships within public administration settings. Applying the public service bargain heuristic to this group of non-partisan advisors: enables a view of how the public service bargain operates at different levels (macro, meso and micro); shows that the public service bargain for these advisors has changed over time in response to administrative reforms; and demonstrates that these advisors are professionally and personally affected through the misaligned expectations of dual principals.

scholarly journals Understanding Structuring and Variation in a Nonprofit Subfield: Examining Institutional and Regional Pressures in U.S. Historic Preservation Nonprofits

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Lise Knox Velez
Keyword(s):  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Nonprofit Advocacy

Public administration and management recognizes key subsectors in the public sphere as nested within and shaped by institutional fields. However, we know little about the forces that influence their development at different levels or how patterns in institutional fields and in forces shaping these fields vary by level and location. We therefore understand little about potential levels for shaping nonprofit advocacy, decision-making, and organizational capacity in nonhomogenous subsectors. This mixed methods study examines nested pressures shaping a U.S. nonprofit subsector, focusing on two ecological levels of influence in historic preservation nonprofits. I use data from 96 interviews with National Trust Partner organizations in 44 states to develop typologies of professional approaches to preservation and capacity. Findings indicate that both national and regional pressures shape scope and capacity in these nonprofits, underscoring the importance of considering institutional contexts structuring subsectors rather than assuming sector-wide patterns and behaviors. This study provides a baseline for future research on developments in the U.S. nonprofit historic preservation subsector and provides insight for practitioners and legislators into the levels that shape scope and capacity in nonprofit subsectors.

scholarly journals Stabilization Pentagon Model: application in the management at macro- and micro-levels

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksii Lyulyov ◽  
Hanna Shvindina
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Macroeconomic Stabilization ◽  
Model Application ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Public ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Eu

The problem of instability of industries, clusters and states influences the countries’ economies. Unavoidable changes became an attribute of the strategic planning at every level. As a result, an effective tool is needed to evaluate stability at different levels in such a way that will make it possible to manage the changes. In this paper the concept of Macroeconomic Stabilization Pentagon (MSP) was analyzed for its applicability for the EU countries of low-an-middle-income economies including Ukraine. The data analysis brought new understanding of the assessment of the public policies’ effectiveness. The model has proven its efficiency not just in the sphere of public administration, but also for the micro level management. The authors proposed the Microeconomic Stabilization Pentagon to be implemented in the research at the level of enterprises

scholarly journals Catalyzing Innovation: Governance Enablers of Nature-Based Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1971
Author(s):  
Juliette G. C. Martin ◽  
Anna Scolobig ◽  
JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Jörg Balsiger
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Wide Range

There is growing recognition that using the properties of nature through nature-based solutions (NBS) can help to provide viable and cost-effective solutions to a wide range of societal challenges, including disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, NBS realization depends critically on the governance framework that enables the NBS policy process. Drawing from three case studies in Nocera Inferiore (Italy), Munich (Germany), and Wolong (China), we identify key governance enablers—the contextual preconditions, policy processes, and institutions—that proved essential for NBS initiation, planning, design, and implementation. In the three cases, interviews confirm the success of the NBS measures and their benefits in terms not only of DRR but of multiple ecological and social–economic co-benefits. Results highlight critical governance enablers of NBS, including: polycentric governance (novel arrangements in the public administration that involved multiple institutional scales and/or sectors); co-design (innovative stakeholder participatory processes that influenced the final NBS); pro-NBS interest and coalition groups (organized pressure groups that advocated for an NBS); and financial incentives (financing community-based implementation and monitoring of NBS). Findings show that the transition to NBS can contribute to multiple global agendas, including DRR, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Porozumienia samorządowe z udziałem jednostek samorządu terytorialnego na tle innych form działania w sferze administracji publicznej

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Kamil Sikora
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Government Structure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Legislative Body ◽  
Civil Contract ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Executive Body

<p>Among the administrative arrangements (<em>porozumienia administracyjne</em>), one should distinguish a category of local-government arrangements (<em>porozumienia samorządowe</em>), i.e. those involving local government units. In the first place, it should be distinguished vertical arrangements, i.e. arrangements between units of different levels of the local government structure: arrangements between poviats (counties) and communes, between voivodeships (regions) and communes, and between voivodeships and poviats. Secondly, horizontal arrangements i.e. between communes, between poviats and between regions. Local government arrangements are a non-sovereign form of activity of the public administration, entered into with mutual declarations of intent of the parties. The basis for their conclusion is a resolution of the legislative body of a local government unit to agree to cooperate under the local government arrangement, while the very act of the arrangement is concluded by the executive body of the local government unit. The purpose of the local government arrangement is to ensure the fulfilment of a public task, to agree on its implementation and the necessary actions. The entrusting of public tasks by means of a local government arrangement is effected under public law and not by a civil contract. The arrangement relates to the implementation of already existing tasks, defined by specific legal provisions, resulting from the legal-systemic position of the parties to the arrangement, so they do not create new obligations arising from the arrangement concluded.</p>

scholarly journals Administration by Algorithm? Public Management meets Public Sector Machine Learning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Veale ◽  
Irina Brass
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Public bodies and agencies increasingly seek to use new forms of data analysis in order to provide 'better public services'. These reforms have consisted of digital service transformations generally aimed at 'improving the experience of the citizen', 'making government more efficient' and 'boosting business and the wider economy'. More recently however, there has been a push to use administrative data to build algorithmic models, often using machine learning, to help make day-to-day operational decisions in the management and delivery of public services rather than providing general policy evidence. This chapter asks several questions relating to this. What are the drivers of these new approaches? Is public sector machine learning a smooth continuation of e-Government, or does it pose fundamentally different challenge to practices of public administration? And how are public management decisions and practices at different levels enacted when machine learning solutions are implemented in the public sector? Focussing on different levels of government: the macro, the meso, and the 'street-level', we map out and analyse the current efforts to frame and standardise machine learning in the public sector, noting that they raise several concerns around the skills, capacities, processes and practices governments currently employ. The forms of these are likely to have value-laden, political consequences worthy of significant scholarly attention.

Public versus Private: Not That Different, Not That Consequential

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Norman Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Versus Private ◽  
The Impact

There are several differences between the public and private sectors which are referred to frequently in the public administration literature. However, there are few studies which verify these differences. This article reports the findings from a study of three “classic” differences between the public and private sectors that are relevant to public personnel management. It also examines the impact of these differences on employee motivation. The findings indicate that the classic differences do exist, but are not as substantial as the literature would lead one to believe. They also indicate the public-private differences do not have a substantial impact on employee motivation.

E-Projects Challenges in India – Role of Human Resource Management and Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Ramnik Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Traditional Approaches

E-governance is a paradigm shift over the traditional approaches in Public Administration which means rendering of government services and information to the public by using electronic means. In the past decades, service quality and responsiveness of the government towards the citizens were least important but with the approach of E-Government the government activities are now well dealt. This paper withdraws experiences from various studies from different countries and projects facing similar challenges which need to be consigned for the successful implementation of e-governance projects. Developing countries like India face poverty and illiteracy as a major obstacle in any form of development which makes it difficult for its government to provide e-services to its people conveniently and fast. It also suggests few suggestions to cope up with the challenges faced while implementing e-projects in India.

The impact of the new media on public relations in the public administration in Kurdistan Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-288
Author(s):  
Dlan Ismail Mawlud ◽  
Hoshyar Mozafar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Management System ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The Impact

The development of technology, information technology and various means of communication have a significant impact on public relations activity; especially in government institutions. Many government institutions have invested these means in their management system, in order to facilitate the goals of the institution, and ultimately the interaction between the internal and external public. In this theoretical research, I tried to explain the impact of the new media on public relations in the public administration, based on the views of specialists. The aim of the research is to know the use of the new media of public relations and how in the system of public administration, as well as, Explaining the role it plays in public relations activities of government institutions. Add to this, analyzing the way of how new media and public relations participate in the birth of e-government. In the results, it is clear that the new media has facilitated public relations between the public and other institutions, as it strengthened relations between them

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