Disciplinary rationale and public administration field development

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Lan
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Field Development ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Future Viability

Public Administration as a field o study is relatively new in the People's Republic of China. Nonetheless, it is quickly gaining popularity on China's university campuses, due largely to China's urgent need for managerial capacity building and reform guidance. Properly defining the mission of the discipline of public administration will have a profound impact on the future viability of the field, as well as on the process of social transformation in China. This paper looks into some of the basic questions related to public administration field development in China. Hopefully, it can contribute to discussions among interested scholars, and serve as a reference for public administration curriculum design and research agenda setting.

scholarly journals Democratic Backsliding, Populism, and Public Administration

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Michael W Bauer ◽  
Stefan Becker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Issue Area ◽  
State Bureaucracy

Abstract What happens to public administration when populists are elected into government? This article argues that populists seek to realize an anti-pluralist reform agenda, thereby fuelling trends of democratic backsliding. Against this background, the article discusses potential goals and strategies of populist public administration policy and introduces examples of how populists sought to capture (Orbán in Hungary), dismantle (Fujimori in Peru), sabotage (Trump in the United States), and reform (Blocher in Switzerland) the state bureaucracy. In doing so, populists in government aim at structures, resources, personnel, norms, and accountability relationships. The examples suggest that populist public administration policies can have profound impact on policymaking and democracy, underlining the need for a broader research agenda on this issue area.

scholarly journals Futures of sustainability: Perspectives on social imaginaries and social transformation. A comment on Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel’s research program

2021 ◽  
pp. 053901842199956
Author(s):  
Gerard Delanty
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Control

This essay is a comment on the research program launched by Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel. My comment is specifically focused on their research agenda as outlined in their trend-setting article, ‘Futures of sustainability as modernization, transformation, and control: A conceptual framework’. The comment is also addressed more generally to the research program of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Futures of Sustainability’. I raise three issues: the first relates to the very idea of the future; the second concerns the notion of social imaginaries and the third question is focused on the idea of social transformation.

scholarly journals How Social Transformation Is Affecting Female Clothing Change in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Xuefei Zhang ◽  
Xiaoming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Late Qing Dynasty ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
The Late Qing Dynasty ◽  
Foot Binding

During the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China, women's clothing had a revolutionary change. Under the unprecedented social transformation in a millennium, Social Darwinism called for “mother of the citizens”, arousing public concern to release women's bodies. Anti-foot-binding movement awakened women's self-awareness and planted a hint of women's emancipation. While Feminism turned the value to the “parity of citizens,” women disguised their female character and dressed as men. Early Qipao was widespread during women’s liberation movement. The New Culture Movement facilitated ideology of Human Liberation. Women gradually possessed independence of personality and changed their corsets. They tended to confront and express body curves instead of cover and weakening.

Sustaining the Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-140
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Transformation Processes

Keeping momentum and ultimately reaching sustainability is one of the challenges faced by practitioners and scholars in the field of social transformation. Sustaining the change accomplished is a critical factor in enacting social transformation; this chapter addresses this matter. For social change to be sustained there needs to be a combination of approaches from capacity building in the actors involved to institutional and structural support. This can be achieved by developing support networks that mutually share the attributes needed for continued success. In this chapter, the authors explore how building and mapping out networks from the lens of sustainability is pivotal, and how this contributes to growing their effectiveness. Moreover, building and further developing what Dr. Fisher-Yoshida calls communities of practice, is part of the approach they suggest as they engage with social transformation processes that can be sustained both in space and in time.

Creating epistemic access through a scaffold approach: Academic literacy skills development for South African first-year public administration students

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-174
Author(s):  
Gerda HG van Dijk ◽  
Brenda A Vivian ◽  
Lianne P Malan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
South African ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Epistemic Access

For higher education institutions to produce graduates capable of contributing to society and the economy in a productive manner, educational emphasis is placed on the development of critical thinking. The above necessitates that higher education institutions are able to engage in responsive curriculum design and delivery for enhanced student success and access. Public Administration programmes focus on equipping students to work within the broader government sector, able and capable of delivering public functions responsive to the needs of society. Literature suggests that there are a number of factors which influence the success ratio of any undergraduate programme in the South African context, including, inter alia, increased enrolments, student–staff ratios and the overall decline of professional and intellectual life in the country. Further complicating matters are classes too big to be participatory and crammed syllabi preventing in-depth discussions. The notion of embedding academic literacy development in curriculum design through a scaffolded approach aims to influence the academic performance of students through engaged and active learning in order to attain a higher level of achievement as well as benefit from the process of scaffolding. The research comprises a mixed method approach using a case study of the first-year students enrolled for a Public Administration degree. Data collected included an analysis of 2015, 2016 and 2017 student cohorts in: determining their academic literacy level upon registration (set as a baseline before any academic literacy intervention); tracking their academic performance through their formative and summative assessments (through a scaffolded approach); and reflecting upon their learning through their completion of a semi-structured survey. The research intends to argue that the use of a scaffolded approach to learning enhances epistemic access, which sees students moving beyond propositional, or foundation knowledge to epistemic or reflexive knowledge.

scholarly journals Citizen-Centric Strategies During Crisis Outbreak: An Overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Siti Hajjar Mohd Amin ◽  
Siti Daleela Mohd Wahid ◽  
Abdul Jalil Mohamed Ali ◽  
Aida Abdullah ◽  
Siti Mariam Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Massive Number ◽  
Shed Light

Citizen-centric has been a major focus area for professionals, managers and scholars for nearly three decades because of its profound impact on policy making and service delivery. A massive number of studies on citizen-centric have been carried out by past scholars which resulted in a large volume of strategies but there has been little examination of these strategies in the crisis context. This study aims to produce a citizen-centric model that can be used during a crisis. There is a need to generalize the strategies that are capable of forming a universal citizen-centric model during crises. This study is an exploratory analysis of previous literatures in the context of public administration that has shed light by examining the indicators of citizen-centric concepts during crisis.

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