scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN SEAPORTS OF UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
A. O. Panchuk

The article covers changes of direction in development of the maritime management complex of Ukraine. The need for a comprehensive study of specific stages of seaports development is due to the fact that maritime ports are an integral part of the transport and industrial infrastructure of the state since they are located on the routes of international transport corridors. The European integration of Ukraine and activation of its transit influence enhancing the quality of services of the maritime management complex. By the adoption of the Law of Ukraine “On the Seaports of Ukraine”, there were significant changes in the public administration of the maritime industry, which remain in force to this day. The methodological basis of the research is formed by a system of general scientific and special legal methods of scientific knowledge (historical, dialectical, analysis and synthesis, scientific abstraction, forecasting). Based on the study of scientific works on the public management theory and the public administration, the author’s definition of the category “public administration” in the maritime industry at the stage of transformation has been formulated. Aspects of management have been analyzed, tasks and functions have been revised in accordance with European standards and best management practices; critical factors for the successful administration of the port sector of Ukraine have been identified. It was pointed out, that nowadays the Ukrainian maritime industry has a unique opportunity to create its own port management model based on the European “port-landlord” management pattern. It was emphasized, that there is a need for a seminal work in the direction of changing national legislation, a significant change in the approach, not only in planning the development of ports, but also a binding development implementation through the application of a direct rule on prosecution for failure to comply with strategic documents on the development of the industry. Fostering the emergence of an approach for determining the direction of public administration development of the maritime industry at the stage of changes involves solving the following issues: withdrawal of land administration from the public sector; optimization of managerial decision making; adoption of the institution for the implementation of plans for the development of ports and the responsibility for the execution of those tasks.

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (44) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Ghromadetskyi

The article revises the neo-liberal postmodern approach to public administration within the scientific paradigm by Ch. Fox and H. Miller. Within the framework of the relevant scientific construct, the researchers identified three leading approaches (neo-liberalism, constitutionalism and communitarianism) designed to replace the outdated model of the modern (orthodox) government. The justification for the postmodern public administration could contribute to the modernization of public management practices in the world in general and in Ukraine in particular. The systematization of the imperatives of the neoliberal approach to public administration is one of the stages of the above-mentioned justification.  The purpose of the paper is to reveal the content and application potential of the neoliberal approach within postmodern public administration, to research its main ideas and tools. Methodological basis of the study consists of logical methods (synthesis, analysis, induction, etc.), as well as special ones (historical, systemic, comparative). As a result of the study, it was found that the content of the neoliberal approach to public administration deals with marketization of the public sector in order to conduct de-bureaucratization and efficiency improvements. The main tools in the process are performance evaluation and audit, contracting out, privatization, implementation of incentive system, and management. Compared with the orthodox model of public administration, the neoliberal counterpart has certain advantages, in particular, the refusal to prevail standardized rules and regulations in favor of outcomes. Nevertheless, at the same time, the neoliberal approach remains faithful to the rational traditions of reality perception. Despite significant practical results, the shortcomings of the neo-liberal postmodern model of public administration (opportunities for corruption and overestimation of the efficiency measuring system) were described.


2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Nataliіa GOLOSH

During the decentralization of power, the influence of society on managerial decision-making, including in the field of land resource management, increased significantly. Under such conditions, the public management entity should look for ways to ensure the effective functioning of the land resource management system. The purpose of this article is to highlight the approaches to the creation of an organizational and legal mechanism for land resource management in the context of decentralization. To solve the problems of a specific territorial community, there is a need to create an organizational and legal mechanism for land resource management, taking into account all the principles and foundations of decentralization, national and regional characteristics. The organizational and legal mechanism of land resource management is a direct impact on public relations as to the ownership, disposal and use of land resources using management tools to ensure revenues to the budget of the territorial community. The organizational component of the land resource management mechanism includes activities that are aimed at ordering and consistency of interrelated elements of the system. The modern understanding of the essence of the creation of the organizational and legal mechanism of land resource management should unambiguously take place through the definition of performance indicators that will determine the nature of the development of the territorial community. Only taking into account this approach we can expect socio-economic development of the territorial community through land resource management.


2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 480-488
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Young ◽  
Kimberly K. Wiley ◽  
Elizabeth A. M. Searing

The United States places great emphasis on the public administration–politics dichotomy, but what happens to public management when the dichotomy breaks down? The authors critically evaluate the public management frameworks, New Public Management and New Public Governance, in the context of two major public management failures: the U.S. State of Illinois Budget Impasse during 2015–2017 and the COVID-19 Pandemic. A definition of public management failure is proffered, and both public management frameworks are found to have polarized and opposing views on whether process or outcome should have priority in crisis. We question whether the two major seminal theories in our field are still generalizable when their assumptions about the dichotomy and political neutrality are challenged in times of crises. The polarized perspectives were found to contribute to the public management failures. Ultimately, both frameworks were found to minimize the political influences that public administration and public management operate under, leaving a need for a more holistic and realistic framework.


Author(s):  
Olga Mykhailоvna Ivanitskaya

The article is devoted to issues of ensuring transparency and ac- countability of authorities in the conditions of participatory democracy (democ- racy of participation). It is argued that the public should be guaranteed not only the right for access to information but also the prerequisites for expanding its par- ticipation in state governance. These prerequisites include: the adoption of clearly measurable macroeconomic and social goals and the provision of control of the processes of their compliance with the government by citizens of the country; ex- tension of the circle of subjects of legislative initiative due to realization of such rights by citizens and their groups; legislative definition of the forms of citizens’ participation in making publicly significant decisions, design of relevant orders and procedures, in particular participation in local referendum; outlining methods and procedures for taking into account social thought when making socially im- portant decisions. The need to disclose information about resources that are used by authorities to realize the goals is proved as well as key performance indicators that can be monitored by every citizen; the efforts made by governments of coun- tries to achieve these goals. It was noted that transparency in the conditions of representative democracy in its worst forms in a society where ignorance of the thought of society and its individual members is ignored does not in fact fulfill its main task — to establish an effective dialogue between the authorities and so- ciety. There is a distortion of the essence of transparency: instead of being heard, society is being asked to be informed — and passively accept the facts presented as due. In fact, transparency and accountability in this case are not instruments for the achievement of democracy in public administration, but by the form of a tacit agreement between the subjects of power and people, where the latter passes the participation of an “informed observer”.


2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (Supplement_4) ◽  
pp. 263-264
Author(s):  
Kelly Melvin ◽  
Jennie L Ivey ◽  
Liesel G Schneider ◽  
Peter Krawczel

Abstract The equine industry is highly variable with many different sectors and management practices. To determine how the public views common management practices and discipline-specific areas of the equine industry, an online study was distributed via email and social media over a 6-week period to U.S. residents over the age of 18 (n = 1,372). Survey questions included demographics, industry connection, definition of welfare and equine classification. Respondents were asked to select the most concerning option from a series of management-related scenarios. The production livestock and equine industries were then segmented by species or discipline, respectively, and respondents were asked which sector was most problematic. To analyze the data, frequency tables (Proc FREQ) and multinomial logistic regression (Proc LOGISTIC) were used in SAS 9.4 (Cary, NC) to test the factors associated with likelihood to select a given management scenario from each series (α=0.05). Respondents who were heavily connected to the industry were four times more likely than lightly connected individuals to select that a blanketed horse or unblanketed horse in 30°F weather with unlimited access to food and water equally presented no concern than to say that a blanketed or unblanketed horse in 30°F weather with unlimited access to food and water and were concerning (OR= 4.09; 95%CL: 2.08,8.04). Of the 1,244 respondents who answered, 563 (45%) said that the gaited horse industry is the most problematic equine industry compared to the racing industry (41%) and stock horse industry (8.7%). Understanding how the public perceives the various animal industries and management scenarios in relation to an individual’s connection to the industry, classification of equines and welfare definition is important to assess and improve educational intervention strategies.


Author(s):  
Stavros Zouridis ◽  
Vera Leijtens

Abstract Recently, scholars have claimed that public management theory has too much ignored law. Consequently, the under-legalized conception of public management has produced a flawed understanding of public management theory as well as public management practices, threatening public institutions’ legitimacy. In this article, we argue that law never left public management theory. Rather, the link between government and law has been redefined twice. We refer to the assumptions that constitute this link as the law-government nexus. This nexus changed from lawfulness in a public administration paradigm, to legal instrumentalism in a (new) public management paradigm, and to a networked concept in the public governance (PG) paradigm. In order to prevent a faulty over-legalized conception of public management, bringing the law back in should be built on lessons from the past. This article elaborates on three strategies to reconnect law and public management. We map the strengths and weaknesses of each law-government nexus and illustrate these with the case of the Dutch tax agency. In our strategies that aim to reconceptualize the current law-government nexus, we incorporate the benefits of each paradigm for public management theory. The revised law-governance nexus enables the PG paradigm to correspond to contemporary issues without encountering old pathologies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14(63) (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Maria Popescu ◽  
Lidia Mândru

"The paper addresses to the Public Administration (PA) from the management perspective. The first part of the study defines the conceptual framework of the two management doctrines, generically called the New Public Management and New Public Government. The second part of the paper reviews the transformation movement in PA management and governance in Romania in the last two decades. The methodology of the study consists in the analysis of the recent theoretic studies on PA modern approach, and official documents, national and European reports, and other publications related to the PA reform in Romania. "


2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-285
Author(s):  
Claudia Petrescu ◽  
Flavis Mihalache

Public services represent an important dimension of quality of society, as they create the contextual conditions for people to further their quality of life. Romanian public administration reform has brought about a constant institutional transformation, which has influenced both the specific features and the quality of the services. This article aims to analyse trends regarding the perceived quality of public services in Romania, in European comparative perspective, using the data of the European Quality of Life Survey (2003–2016). The article aims to understand the low satisfaction with public services in Romania against the background of the public service reform measures taken by government in this period. The article describes the context of Romanian public administration and public service reform, the most important public policy measures adopted and the most important challenges. The lack of vision in the public service reform, the partial introduction of reform elements, the permanent and, sometimes, conflicting changes are issues that may have influenced the way in which the population perceives the quality of public services. The decentralisation process of public services and the insufficient allocation of public funds for delivering such services at local level might have an impact on their quality and quantity perceived by the population. Keywords: public services; public administration reform; citizens’ satisfaction; New Public Management; New Weberianism.


2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ileana Steccolini

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect various pathways for public sector accounting and accountability research in a post-new public management (NPM) context. Design/methodology/approach The paper first discusses the relationship between NPM and public sector accounting research. It then explores the possible stimuli that inter-disciplinary accounting scholars may derive from recent public administration studies, public policy and societal trends, highlighting possible ways to extend public sector accounting research and strengthen dialogue with other disciplines. Findings NPM may have represented a golden age, but also a “golden cage,” for the development of public sector accounting research. The paper reflects possible ways out of this golden cage, discussing future avenues for public sector accounting research. In doing so, it highlights the opportunities offered by re-considering the “public” side of accounting research and shifting the attention from the public sector, seen as a context for public sector accounting research, to publicness, as a concept central to such research. Originality/value The paper calls for stronger engagement with contemporary developments in public administration and policy. This could be achieved by looking at how public sector accounting accounts for, but also impacts on, issues of wider societal relevance, such as co-production and hybridization of public services, austerity, crises and wicked problems, the creation and maintenance of public value and democratic participation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Wael Omran Aly

Abstract:After the Second World War, the newly emerged independent third world countries faced immense problems such as poverty, illiteracy, poor health, low agriculture and industrial productivity and social instability. The idea of development administration was born with the above-stated pragmatic concern. Since then, third world countries strived to adopt development administration principles and techniques; in order to transform their conventional traditional public administration into modern development administration that can lead the prospective development.Such conventional public administration deals with regulatory aspects of administration such as law and order, judicial administration and revenue collection, development administration is concerned with the socio-economic developmental activities. Thus, traditional public administration is structure-oriented while developmental administration is action- oriented. Many third world countries failed in realizing such desired shift by converting its conventional public administration to effective development administration; able to achieve the intended national development via the formulation and the implementation of plans, policies, programs and projects necessary for sustainable development purposes. Such bad governance had led the people to go up against such government; as it happens lately in some Arab countries like Egypt and Tunisia.Therefore, the public sector in Egypt need to be deregulated, a new results-based management is a must; to hold managers accountable. This is a fundamental change: holding managers accountable for what they do, not how they do it. The public sector reform initiatives (especially the New Public management –NPM) have resulted in changing the accountability concept; from accountability in terms of procedural compliance to accountability in terms of efficiency and results (effectiveness and cost effectiveness).  


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