scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: THE 21ST CENTURY PUBLIC MANAGER BY ZEGER VAN DER WAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-156
Author(s):  
Amadea Bata-Balog
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Logical Framework ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Public Manager

Zeger van der Wal’s latest book entitled ‘The 21st Century Public Manager:  Challenges, People and Strategies’ published in 2017 is in many ways a unique and  milestone work, truly global in scope and ambition, both in its mapping of the  complex 21st century landscape of public administration, and in offering a clear  perspective for practitioners, while also inspiring them on their journeys. Along these lines, the value of the book is in its basic premise that “public management  matters” and that of the demanding rethinking of the roles, responsibilities, skills  and strategies of purposeful public servants while navigating in the ever-changing  VUCA world – one characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and  ambiguity. The book was intended to serve as a practical manual and indeed is an  extremely useful guide, being an asset for professionals, students and educators who wish to follow a logical framework in understanding contemporary public policy challenges. 

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS MASTERS PROGRAMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Branko Radulović
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Master Program ◽  
Policy Theory ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Public Policy Analysis

The paper presents research on the content of postgraduate programs in the field of public policy at leading European universities. Based on previous research, more than 80 courses are classified in four areas: economic analysis, research methods, public administration, and public policy, in order to obtain a typical master program in public policy analysis. The programs mostly emphasize research methods and public policy theory and application with somewhat lower presence of economic analysis and public management. The results of the research can be used for the purpose of formulating new postgraduate programs at universities in Serbia.

FORMATION OF THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM IN THE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION SPHERE

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
Valerii Bakumenko ◽  
Oleksiy Krasnorutskyy ◽  
Anatolii Hatsko
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Administration Reform

The modernization of the management system and the knowledge management model is needed in the context of the public administration reform, taking into account the concept of decentralization and Good Governance. That is why the article focuses on the author’s approach to substantiating the formation of a modern knowledge system in public management and administration in Ukraine. It is proved that the approach to the knowledge system formation should be based on the identification of the needs of public administration objects. The need to comply with the necessary diversity law for a management subject of public entity regarding its knowledge of the entity has been identified. The content of the principle «from general to specific» for the objects of public administration is considered. The formation structure of the basic knowledge system in the public sphere is presented, which unites a number of blocks. The first block deals with the system of basic knowledge of public management and administration. The second block deals with the idea of a public authorities system at different levels. The third block concerns the formation of basic knowledge about public service. The fourth block concerns the formation of a basic knowledge system about current trends in the development of domestic public administration. The fifth block deals with the knowledge about the development and implementation of public policy and implementation of public administration. The sixth block deals with the consideration of public administration as a deliberate activity to establish internal procedures and processes in public administration to ensure their smooth functioning. The seventh block concerns the knowledge system for ensuring social stability. The eighth block is a glossary of basic terms and the ninth is a bibliography. The proposed approach is the scientific substantiation of the development of educational and professional programs of the basic textbook and standards for the specialty 281 – «Public Management and Administration». Keywords: knowledge, public administration, the necessary diversity law, public policy, public service, public authorities, public stability.

Understanding the Field of Public Policy in the Context of Public Administration Evolution

2022 ◽  
pp. 22-44
Author(s):  
Feras Ali Qawasmeh
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Review Study ◽  
New Public Governance

Public policy is classified as a major field in public administration. Therefore, to understand the context of public policy as a field, it is essential to explore its root developments in public administration from epistemological and chronological perspectives. This chapter is a review study referring to main scholarly works including books, academic articles, and studies. The chapter first helps researchers and students in comprehending the evolution of public administration in its four main stages including classical public administration, new public administration, new public management, and new public governance. Second, the chapter presents a general overview of the evolution of the public policy field with particular attention paid to the concepts of Harold Lasswell who is seen as the father of public policy. The chapter then discusses different definitions of public policy. Various classifications of public policy are also investigated. The chapter ends with a critical discussion of the stages model (heuristics).

scholarly journals Making Room for Volunteer Participation in Managing Public Affairs: A Russian Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10229
Author(s):  
Maria V. Pevnaya ◽  
Anna A. Drozdova ◽  
Mariana Cernicova-Buca
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Governmental Support ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government

In 2018, the United Nations Volunteers organization recognized that the governmental support for volunteering is a superior public management practice, offering the much-needed fuel for the integration of volunteering in politics, law-making, and social planning at the government level. The present article analyzes the current situation of governmental support for volunteering at federal, regional, and local levels of public administration in the Russian Federation as a precondition for making coproduction of public services possible. The analysis is based on the scrutiny of documents, a questionnaire survey of Russian volunteers, and an expert poll of public servants and nonprofit organizations (NPO) leaders. The analysis of the state policy of support for volunteering is carried out with respect to the following parameters: the awareness and evaluation of national measures of the governmental support for volunteering, as well as the evaluation of informational, financial, consulting, and organizational measures to support volunteer organizations by regional and municipal civil servants. In a country such as the Russian Federation, where volunteering is a relatively young social phenomenon, public administration needs not only to provide support, but also to administer transformation processes toward sustainable development, relying on the partnership and resources volunteers bring for effectively managing public life.

Sustainable Value as a Tool for Performance Measurement of the Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-713
Author(s):  
Jan Fuka ◽  
Petra Lesakova ◽  
Robert Bata
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
New Public ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
New Challenges

Public servants are confronted with the need to reflect the reality of the changing world. In past decades, managerial methods have begun to penetrate into public administration, which has gained the name of New Public Management . This approach has been criticized by part of both scholars and practitioners, because of the fact that it brings too many economic and managerial principles from the private sector. We think that New Public Management is still open to new challenges, but with emphasizing the values that are typical for public administration. The use of Corporate Performance Management using Sustainable Value methodology can be such challenge. The aim of paper is to introduce, modify and use Sustainable Value as a tool for Corporate Performance Management within New Public Management, for its use at regional level to measure the performance.

scholarly journals The Center Page

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 698-699
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Faculty Positions ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University

Based on a generous future bequest by the 2013 APSA Gaus Lecturer Beryl A. Radin, APSA announced the creation of the APSA Pracademic Program supported by the Beryl Radin Fund. Professor Radin described herself as a “pracademic” because she has moved back and forth between the world of the practitioner and that of the academic. Beryl A. Radin's government service included an assignment as a special advisor to the assistant secretary for management and budget of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as other experiences in the Office of Management and Budget and HHS. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, editor of the book series “Public Management and Change” at Georgetown University Press, past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, former head of the APSA public administration section, and has held faculty positions at the University of Southern California, the University of Albany, and American and Georgetown universities. As the title suggests, this will be a fellowship aimed at providing APSA member academics in the fields of public policy and public administration with practical, hands-on experience that the recipients can take back to their institutions and classrooms to help build bridges between the worlds of academe and applied politics.

scholarly journals Uncertainty in policy: implications for practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Germana Nicklin
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Social

Academics have been writing about uncertainty in public administration since the 1950s (Brown, 1978; Lindblom, 1959), and more recently complexity theory has provided tools for learning one’s way through uncertainty (Eppel, Turner and Wolf, 2011; Kurtz and Snowden, 2003). Uncertainty is different from change. Uncertainty arises from change, but it is also an effect of the social interactions engaged in by public servants going about their business, and of the environment they work in. Research on the way policy is practised provides a way to ‘understand how to conceive of public policy making in an uncertain world’ (Hajer and Laws, in Moran, Rein and Goodin, 2006, p.421). Within this field, the pervasiveness of the effects of uncertainty on the daily work of policy practitioners appears to have been given less attention than it deserves. 

scholarly journals New Public Management And Service Science: Preparing Students For The 21st Century

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Michael O. Adams ◽  
Linda D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Service Science ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Narrow Definition

This effort will seek to discover the foundations of public management and how it relates to information technology, specifically understanding E-government and other technologies in the public domain. Public Management is the development or application of methodical and systematic techniques, often employing comparison quantification, and measurement, that are designed to make the operations of public organizations more efficient, effective and increasingly responsive. This is a considerably crisper, concise, and narrow definition compared to other definitions of public administration, and its sharper focus is attributable to the larger fields encompassing of values in addition to those of efficiency, effectiveness and responsiveness.

scholarly journals ПИТАННЯ ДЕРЖАВНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ ВІДНОСНО ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ЙОГО ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
N. R. Asadullina
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Public Servants

In the article there considered the issues of theoretical underlying reasons of public administration as an element of management system of society, the issues of combination of self-management and public management, in dependence of forms of participation of the state in economy from head institutions. The purpose of the research is the mapping of the main directions of public management and administration, in order to find ways to improve its efficiency and effec-tiveness. The object of research – the process of public administration in the country of state-owned objects, as well as ways to improve its efficiency. The methods used in the research – logical, comparative, analytical, scientific and methodological. The hypothesis of the research is the ways to improve the efficiency of public administration depend on the qualifications of management personnel and feedback from the local population. The statement of basic materials. The economic conversions which carried out in Uzbekistan have beck directed to dismantling of the institutes resisting to the market, and active formation of the new institutional struc-tures inherent in preferentially market public systems. Gradualness and sequence of the re-formatory steps excluding shock components for economy and population and providing a necessary social insurance of transformational risks are the feature of transformational model of Uzbekistan. The originality and practical significance of the research. The choice of model of public admin-istration in economy is inevitably connected by geopolitical priorities and ideas of the place of the country in the modern world. It means that exert impact on institutes of management and an assessment of management efficiency and political factors which are in turn subdivided on internal political are, first of all, support by the population of the idea of the state independence. Conclusions of the research. Further improvement of public admin-istration assumes improvement of legal base of administrative activity (from a position of in-terests of public servants), necessary guaran-tees and incentives, standardization of their activity as most complex, responsible and skilled work, and maximum informatization of administrative decisions. Such approach as-sumes formation of special legislation on pub-lic service, development of the quality stand-ards of state services, electronic forms of low-cost and transparent forms of interaction with economic entities and citizens.

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