scholarly journals Digitalization in the understanding of philosophy, law, political science, and economics: an interdisciplinary approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Anastasia V. Timchenko ◽  
Andrei Timoshenko
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interaction Dynamics ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Electronic Technologies

This article discusses the influence of digitalization on diverse social activity spheres. The authors analyze the essential notions of digitalization with regard to philosophy, law, political science, and economics. The digital sphere becomes virtual space without understanding and recognizing territorial and hence, nation-state, jurisdiction. Global digitalization for all social spheres becomes a reality. Nowadays, the digital economy is globalizing, the public administration is digitalizing, electronic technologies in finance are developing, and smart cities are being created. Law lags significantly behind new digitalization challenges and does not always react swiftly with regard to social interaction dynamics. Philosophy conceptualizes human existence in digital society in the new digital era.

scholarly journals The cost of democracy: The determinants of spending on the public administration of elections

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Clark
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Multivariate Model ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
The Cost

Managing the electoral process requires considerable administrative and organizational capacity. Poor performance can lead to voters being disenfranchised and the integrity and legitimacy of elections undermined. Providing sufficient capacity to manage a national electoral process is expensive. Little research assesses how much electoral democracy costs, and what drives those costs. These are crucial questions for democracies, political science and public administration. Using rare comprehensive data from Britain, this article’s major contribution is to begin identifying some of the drivers impacting on the cost of electoral administration in advanced democracies. It presents an overview of influences on spending on electoral administration, before developing a multivariate model utilizing socio-economic, organizational and administrative data on election spending. It finds that costs in an important advanced democracy have been driven in a major national election by the need to provide capacity, notably on the ground close to electors.

Defending Government: Why Big Government Works. By Max Neiman. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 260p. $27.00 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-218
Author(s):  
John C. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Goal Achievement ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
The Public

Max Neiman provides a concise, well-written, and compre- hensive critical analysis of "the conservative attack on the public sector, especially its explanation for and evaluation of the size and growth of the public sector in the United States" (p. viii). In doing so, however, he only partially fulfills what is promised in the subtitle, namely, explaining why big govern- ment works. Rather than explicitly assess the reasons for goal achievement in a variety of policy areas, as the title implied to me, Neiman focuses on why we have big government and on the various critiques of that size. To be sure, the book is appropriate for upper division and graduate courses in political science, public policy, or public administration.

Electronic Delivery of Public Services to Citizens

2011 ◽  
pp. 319-347
Author(s):  
Petra Hoepner ◽  
Linda Strick ◽  
Manuel Mendes ◽  
Romildo Monte ◽  
Roberto Agune ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Software Infrastructure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Electronic Delivery

The main goal of the EU @LIS demonstration project Electronic Government Innovation and Access (eGOIA) is the provisioning of demonstrators that show future-oriented public-administration services to a broad public in Latin America. The vision of the eGOIA project is the provision of a single virtual space supporting the interaction of citizens (independent of social status, gender, race, abilities, and age) and the public administration in a simple, future-oriented, and cost-effective way. A software infrastructure is developed in order to allow the access of citizens through the Internet to integrated public services at several levels: local government (municipalities), regional government (state), and federal government. The trial of the demonstrator will be performed in São Paulo state and in municipalities in Peru.

scholarly journals The Public Administration Discipline in Slovenia: Between Legal and Administrative Sciences

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polonca Kovač
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Scientific Achievements ◽  
Administrative Science

Abstract Th e article analyzes the historical development of public administration as a discipline in research and study programs situated between legal and administrative sciences in Slovenia as part of the Central European political and legal environment. Public administration in Slovenia was initially, and still is, primarily law-driven, but an integrative and furthermore interdisciplinary approach to public-administration studies is considered to be an inevitable trend due to its complex character. However, as indicated by the presented results of research on Slovene administrative study programs and teachers’ habilitation areas, combined with the classification of researchers’ scientific achievements, carried out in order to establish the state of the art of administrative science, research and study programs are developing rather in the framework of administrative-legal science. Hence, as grounded by historical, comparative and empirical analyses of the present study programs, habilitation and research areas in Slovenia, critical assessment of their design and classification leads us to draw several conclusions. Primarily, law is not sufficient, although, simultaneously, in the CEE area it is an indispensable basis for the study of a law-determined public administration. Both mentioned imperatives should systematically be taken into account in future (supra-) national field classifications as well as in the planning and accreditation of study programs and research in the field.

Encyclopedia of Public Administration

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
International Studies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
The University

Encyclopedia of Public Administration is the first Polish interdisciplinary encyclopedia covering the issues of public administration, both in the theoretical context and with reference to its functioning in practice. The publication, whose idea was developed by researchers from the Institute of Political Sciences at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw, was prepared by scientists from eight Polish universities. Readers seeking knowledge and information on such issues as democracy, the system of public authorities in Poland, including local and regional self-government authorities, rules governing the practice of the functioning of offices, issues regarding officials and professional ethics, and finally forms of citizens’ participation in co-governance and their rights in relations with the public administration system, will appreciate the several hundred entries. Issues related to the functioning of the Polish administration in the structures of the European Union are also taken into account. This list does not exhaust the extensive range of entries. The Encyclopedia is addressed to various readers – the scientific community, students, representatives of public administration or citizens seeking information about the system of public institutions and the rules governing their functioning. The authors of the entries are authorities in the field of law, state systems and political issues of public administration, such as Professors Hubert Izdebski, Robert Kmieciak, Izabela Malinowska, Stanisław Mazur, Andrzej Misiuk, Jacek Sroka, Jacek Wojnicki and scientific editor of the volume Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek, Head of the Department of State Sciences and Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw.

Beleidsvervreemding in de gezondheidszorg

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Tummers
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Motivational Factor ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
Behavioural Support ◽  
Management Literature

Policy alienation in the health sector. Professional experiences of midwifes and sonographers Policy alienation in the health sector. Professional experiences of midwifes and sonographers A number of developments – such as increased performance measurement and new governmental policies – put pressure on employees working in the public sector. In this article, we examine pressures healthcare professionals experience during the implementation of the 20-weeks ultrasound policy (structural ultrasound policy). We use an interdisciplinary approach. From public administration literature, we draw on the policy alienation concept, which consists of five dimensions: strategic powerlessness, tactical powerlessness, operational powerlessness, societal meaninglessness and client meaninglessness. These are considered as factors that influence the behavioural support for a policy, based on the concept of ‘behavioural support for a change’, drawn from the change management literature. We test this model using survey data collected among 780 Dutch midwives implementing the 20-week ultrasound policy. Both meaninglessness dimensions proved highly significant, whereas strategic and tactic al powerlessness were found not significant. We conclude that clarifying the value of the policy is important in getting professionals to willing implement a policy, whereas their participation on the strategic or tactical levels seems less of a motivational factor. These insights help in understanding why public professionals embrace or resist the implementation of particular policies.

Public Administration, Public Choice and the Pathos of Reform

1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Wade
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Choice Approach ◽  
Public Choice Approach

In recent years, several writers using the new political economy or public choice approach to political analysis have sought to improve our understanding of bureaus, bureaucrats and governments and, in some cases, to suggest ways in which their behavior might be “improved” in the public interest. The public choice approach to public administration rejects the so-called sociological or traditional political science approaches with their alleged Parsonian, Weberian, Marxist, historical, institutional or organic biases and limitations in favor of an individualistic, deductive, noninstitutional analysis, which is thought to be more cogent, more fertile in testable hypotheses, more genuinely theoretical and more relevant in terms of reform. Here the view is taken that the pathos of the public choice approach to public administration consists in this: that public choice advocates by virtue of their methodology are fated to “lose” consistently on questions of administrative reform and prescriptive efficacy, even while contributing, potentially importantly, to the scientific understanding of nonmarket, usually public, organizations or “bureaus.”

scholarly journals Elaboration on Public Administration Crises: An Endeavor in Seeking Scientifc Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Iwan Tanjung Sutarna ◽  
Khuriyatul Husna ◽  
Paramita Iswari
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
True Self ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
Conceptual Debate ◽  
Empirical Implications

This paper aims to elaborate the crises occurring in the science of public administration based on signifcant conceptions of scholars. Public administration’s initial emergence as a novel scientifc discipline sparked a theoretical-conceptual debate specifcally in the domain of epistemology. For the sake of systematical order, this paper is divided into three phases of crisis based on the dynamics of the theoretical-conceptual development of public administration, namely: (1) identity crisis; (2) paradigm crisis; and (3) intellectual crisis. The illustration of each crisis phase is aimed at conveying conception points of scientists which facilitates in reading the narrative of shifts and theoretical-conceptual contents including their inherent values. For this reason, a search or walkthrough of relevant literature is necessary to observe the development of thoughts in public administration.The study result shows that the differing ideas and argumentations which had occurred throughout every discussion on public administration have had implications on the heterogeneity of the public administration feld. The various shifts of locus-focus and paradigm in public administration is seen as a systematic atempt in fnding its true self as a scientifc discipline. The efforts of public administration in separating itself from the shadows of political science was also observed, although being capable of truly separating itself is considered as extremely difcult, bearing in mind that the focus and locus of public administration is very much affected by constantly developing social political influences. In addition to that, various shifts of locus and focus seems to have empirical implications particularly in the scientifc scope of public administration.

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