Political Economy of Public Administration

2018 ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Andrew Crosby ◽  
Helisse Levine ◽  
Dawnasia Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Public Pressure

Public administration is fundamentally a discipline closely linked to management. Scholars and practitioners alike have argued that government, nonprofit, and health organizations should use public resources in the most efficient manner possible, and calls to “run government like a business” are frequent. At the same time, scholars and practitioners have also argued that public organizations should also provide an equal opportunity for all, and administrators have faced public pressure and mandates, for example, to ensure that “no child [is] left behind.” This chapter reviews literature regarding efficiency and equity in public administration, and uses examples from both government and healthcare to illustrate the inherent tradeoff between efficiency and equity in practice.

scholarly journals How Earmarking Government Revenue Affects Efficiency of Road Construction and Maintenance

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-163
Author(s):  
Ramon Christen ◽  
Nils C. Soguel
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Government Revenue ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Model ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Per Capita

It is common practice to assign revenue to accomplish specific governmental tasks in general and to provide transport infrastructure in particular. However, neither the literature in public administration nor in public choice has reached a consensus about the effects that earmarking has on efficiency. Building on earlier public choice models, we argue that this mechanism prevents budget debates from occurring and reduces the incentives for ministers to monitor the colleagues whose budgets are financed by earmarked revenues. These latter tend to overuse public resources, thus increasing inefficiency. A stochastic frontier model fed with data from Swiss cantonal ministries of transport from 2000 to 2016 tests this hypothesis. The results reveal a negative effect of earmarking on efficiency. For every 1,000 additional Swiss francs per capita financed out of an earmarked fund, the input requirement increases by 5.4 percent on average.

scholarly journals Non-Face-to-Face Public Services and Perceptions of Public Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12185
Author(s):  
Da-Hee Lim ◽  
Dae-Woong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Institute Of Public Administration ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Structural Equations Model

Public services are the primary channels and government activities in which citizens contact public organizations. In turn, public services provided by the government are critical for citizens to recognize public organizations and governments according to their content and procedure. With the onset of COVID-19, the existing face-to-face public service delivery system has shown limitations in meeting citizens’ needs for public services (fastness, transparency, and safety); as a result, a shift to non-face-to-face public services is required. The study proposes the question: “How does citizens’ satisfaction with non-face-to-face public services affect public organizations (response and transparency) and government satisfaction?”. The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of satisfaction (content and procedural) with non-face-to-face public services on the perception (responsiveness and transparency) of public organizations and governments’ satisfaction. Specifically, non-face-to-face public services are divided into content and procedural aspects to analyze the responsiveness and transparency of public organizations and their impact on government satisfaction. This study used a structural equations model for analysis and used data collected in 2019 by the Korea Institute of Public Administration, a representative public research institute in Korea. The main analysis results are as follows: the responsiveness and transparency of public organizations increased alongside satisfaction with content and procedural satisfaction with non-face-to-face public services, and government satisfaction increased with responsiveness to and transparency toward public organizations.

scholarly journals GESTÃO PÚBLICA EM ACCONTABILITY: ESTUDO COM PREFEITURAS DO ESTADO DO CEARÁ

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nathaly Maria Martins Freire ◽  
Douglas Willyam Rodrigues Gomes ◽  
Oderlene Vieira de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
External Control ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Fiscal Responsibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
Share Information

No mundo contemporâneo vem se tornando mencionado em maior frequência os controles nas contas públicas. O controle externo, torna-se uma ferramenta que auxilia o controle das despesas e que na Administração pública vem sendo efetivado pelos Tribunais de Contas. Justifica-se esse estudo pela importância do controle externo das contas públicas e o acesso às informações, afim de obter-se accountability fidedigna dos órgãos públicos. Assim, nota-se a utilidade de instituições que repassem as informações para os habitantes, que proporcionem transparência à gestão pública, que correspondam a reais agências de accountability, de transparência, que disponha respostas e realize prestação de contas dos recursos públicos. O presente artigo tem como objetivo geral identificar as contribuições que o Tribunal de Contas dos Municípios (TCM) traz para o processo de prestação de contas nos municípios objeto de pesquisa. No referencial foram abordados conceitos sobre accountability e sobre a Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal (LRF). Metodologicamente é um trabalho de natureza bibliográfica, descritiva e qualitativa. Os resultados encontrados mostram que os TCM é um órgão que executa o processo de accountability nos municípios em que existe. Conclui-se que os TCM’s proporcionam fiscalização dos recursos patrimoniais, direcionados pelos administradores do poder público e controle do mesmo, a fim de facilitar o processo de prestação de contas entre a sociedade e a classe dos governantes municipais. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN ACCOUNTABILITY: A STUDY WITH CITY HALLS FROM CEARÁ STATE ABSTRACT In contemporary world the control of public accounts is being mentioned more frequently. The external control becomes a tool that assists the control of expenses and it is what the public administration has been done by Courts of Accounts. This study is justified by the importance of external control of the public accounts and the access to information, in order to obtain reliable accountability of public institutions. Therefore, it is noticed the usefulness of institutions that share information to the citizens, providing transparency to the public administration, which correspond to real agencies of accountability, of transparency, giving answers and performing accountability of public resources. This paper aims to identify the contributions that the Municipal Courts of Accounts (TCM) brings to the process of accountability in the cities that are object of this research. In the referential were used concepts about accountability and about the Fiscal Responsibility Law (LRF). Methodologically it is a bibliographical, descriptive and qualitative work. The results indicate that the TCM is an institution that executes the accountability process in the cities where it is present. It is concluded that TCMs provide supervision of patrimonial resources, directed and controlled by the administrators of public power, in order to facilitate the process of accountability among society and the class of municipal governors.

Racialized Emotional Labor: An Unseen Burden in the Public Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 009539972110375
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public

Discussions of race have often been on the periphery emotional labor scholarship. This piece considers the link between race and emotional labor, arguing that racial bias in public organizations creates disparities in emotional labor among employees. To make this argument, this piece explores white normativity in public administration and the implications this has for people of color when managing their emotions at work. Following this discussion, the article identifies key themes from the literature, before providing a framework for future research on emotional labor and race.

Ever-Brighter

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Paul Lagunes
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
Government Functions ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Credible Threat

This chapter summarizes the book’s central findings, addresses lingering questions, and delivers a conclusion. The chapter begins with a reminder of the corruption risks that are present across Latin America. Given the persistent problem of corruption, I again argue for the eye and whip approach to corruption control. Good things happen when targeted inspections of key government functions are supported by the credible threat of enforcement. The three field experiments featured in this book suggest that the eye and whip approach contributes to improved compliance with existing regulations and results in the more efficient use of public resources. Moreover, these studies do not lend support to concerns that intensified anticorruption efforts will unnecessarily burden the work of public administration.

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