scholarly journals LOGISTICS CHALLENGES OF DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC ENERGY INSIDE THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: THE CASE OF THE STATE OF AMAZONAS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Jefferson Ferreira ◽  
Giskele Rafael ◽  
Daniel Nascimento-e-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Municipal Finance ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Word Processors

The Environmental Agenda in Public Administration (A3P) emerges as an essential tool for the modernization of Brazilian public management. This study aimed to identify the priority axes and actions capable of structuring an A3P for the Municipal Finance Secretariat (SEMEF) of the municipality of Manaus. A qualitative study was carried out, whose respondents are SEMEF managers, consulted based on interview script, whose data were organized with word processors, analyzed with content analysis tools, and interpreted based on the similarities and differences in the respondents' positions. The results showed that the rational use of resources, adequate waste management, sustainable construction, and quality of life at work were the four axes considered priorities to structure the A3P. The conclusion shows that the axes, initiatives, and results found are consistent with the philosophy and practice intended by A3P.

Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanisław Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Quality Of Governance ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

In the early 1990s, the Central and Eastern European countries (CEE countries) saw the collapse of communist regimes and an unprecedented political and economic transformation that resulted in the establishment of democratic, law-governed states and market economies. Administrative reforms, which became an important milestone in this transformation, were considerably influenced both by administrative legacies predominant in the countries and by the Europeanization processes associated with their accession to the European Union. The administrative legacies, which combine elements of various traditions (e.g., German, Napoleonic, and Anglo-American) are still strongly affected by what is left of the communist era. Conversely, the impact of Europeanization processes on public administrations in CEE countries has proved to be much weaker than initially expected. The process of building a professional and apolitical civil service in CEE countries has been plagued by discontinuity and inconsistency, owing to the specific administrative culture of the region, the weakening pressure to modernize EU institutions, and the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as growing populist tendencies in the region. All these factors encouraged the belief that political control over public administration needs to be tightened in order for the effectiveness and quality of governance mechanisms to be improved. The quality of governance and public management varies widely across the CEE countries. What they have in common—at least to some extent—is the fairly high dynamics of change, including the reversal of the effects of previously implemented reforms. The latter factor may be interpreted as a search for country-specific reform paths, partly due to disappointment with the values and models prevailing in Western Europe, and somewhat as a consequence of growing populist tendencies in the region.

Perceptions towards the quality of public services in Romania. Poor outcomes of public administration reforms?

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-285
Author(s):  
Claudia Petrescu ◽  
Flavis Mihalache
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Administration Reform

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.

scholarly journals Does Public Administration Higher Education in CEECs Reflect Demands Created by NPM Reforms?

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juraj Nemec ◽  
David Spacek ◽  
Patrycja Suwaj ◽  
Artur Modrzejewski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Supportive Services ◽  
Performance Budgeting ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
And Performance

Does Public Administration Higher Education in CEECs Reflect Demands Created by NPM Reforms? The first part of the paper summarizes NPM approaches in public administration reforms in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs), and focuses particularly on contracting of public services delivery, outsourcing of supportive services in public organizations and Program (performance) budgeting and performance evaluation and financing. The problems discussed in the first part open a discussion on public management education of civil servants in CEECs with which deals the second part of the paper. The data available clearly indicate that the contents and quality of public management higher education in the three selected countries - Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland - do not meet the current needs of a modern state.

scholarly journals The Legacy of Deferred Compensation in Korea`s Administrative Reforms

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Kim Dong Ryul
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Deferred Compensation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Performance ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
New Public

While New Public Management is becoming an established program for improving the quality of public administration, this study redirects our attention to the merits of an older system. Some of the public administration mechanisms that were reformed with the advent of democratization and globalization are argued in this study to have worked better than their newer versions. Using the Korean example, this study demonstrates that liberal political reforms may be harmful for public management, contrary to the usual expectations about their benefits. In the Korean bureaucracy, the disruption of deferred compensation-attractive post-retirement employment as a reward for policy performance during one`s tenure as a civil servant-impaired its organizational capacity, as policy autonomy dropped and corruption increased within the bureaucracy.

scholarly journals MANAJEMEN KINERJA APARATUR SIPIL NEGARA DI INDONESIA: SEBUAH KONSEP MANAJEMEN PUBLIK BARU

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Bertha Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concept ◽  
Results Orientation

New public management is a new concept in public administration science. This concept is results oriented, transparency and accountability of administrative services. Performance management is the key to results orientation. The Performance Management System is a record of the inputs, processes, outputs and results of government procedures. This helps to achieve the government's progress towards the goals. The Research goals to introduce the concept of performance management of the state civil servants in Indonesia as a new public management concept. The research used qualitative methods in the analysis of the research object. The results show that the bureaucracy that is complicated and still lacks quality of public services has become the curse of public administration science in Indonesia. The ASN performance management concept as a new performance-based public management is a breakthrough that can improve ASN performance which in the end has an impact on the performance of public services.

EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE REGIONAL SOCIETY: CERTAIN ASPECTS OF METHODOLOGY

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Priamukhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Regional Society ◽  
The Individual

The article considers some aspects of the methodology for assessing the effectiveness of public management of the quality of life of the population of the region. It is substantiated: human life is connected with the concepts of "needs" and "interests", because only by satisfying the needs embodied in conscious interests, an individual can achieve a certain level and quality of life. It is determined that the management of quality of life is due to the peculiarities of modernization processes, where the basis of development is a person, his intellectual, creative and physical potential. Modern society, as a "risk society" narrows the living space of the individual, acts as a catalyst for growing dissatisfaction with living conditions and uncertainty in the future, so preventing possible risks and creating safe living conditions is an integral component of quality of life. It is proved that the study of the methodology for assessing the effectiveness of public management of the quality of life of the region should be based on the concept of "system", the relative independence of quality of life from the region, and the fact that as a system of indicators is something greater than the set of results of its constituent elements and subsystems. The peculiarities of self-organization of the quality of life of the population of the region are considered, it is substantiated that in assessing the effectiveness of public administration to ensure the quality of life of the population, economic and social efficiency are taken into account. The general conclusion of the study is the relevance of using an indicative model of public administration with the foundation of the quality of life system, in particular the set of parameters: welfare; The "quality" of the population represented by the health care and education system; living conditions; social and environmental security; conditions for the diverse development of personality.

scholarly journals Transition Countries And New Public Management: The Case Of Slovenia

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanka Setnikar-Cankar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
New Public ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
External Reasons

Globalisation impacts on a country and its administration with a series of economical, technological, cultural and ecological processes. The modern state is seen as a modest state. The state must provide the necessary direction without hindering other activities in society. The shift from public administration to new public management involves a shift in the basic design co-ordinates of public sector organisation. Changes in the operating of public administration require new management policies. Abolishing administrative obstacles confronted by enterprises will reduce their operating costs. An efficient and well-organised public sector is in the interest of the economy. Reorganisation of state administration operations involves setting two important goals in the strategy of reform: greater productivity and better quality of service. Operating indicators are necessary for internal and external reasons for assessing the past and planning the future. New rules on public sector operations require a preliminary definition of operational standards, which determine the extent, quality and accessibility of services, measure results and establish mechanisms impacting on both the users and payers of services.

scholarly journals Public Administration Reform over Time – Did Change Lead to a More Effective Integrity Management?

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Christoph Demmke
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Institutional Integrity ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
New Public ◽  
Ethics Policies ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Over Time

The following discussion adds to the discourse regarding the relationship between public administration reform and ethics policies. In this theoreti­cal paper, a narrative is employed that re-reads the old Weberian model as a model of ‘institutional integrity’, which is slowly replaced by a public management concept that focuses on individual integrity. Whereas the Weberian concept defined institutional integrity as a quality of institu­tions, more recent management concepts define institutional integrity as a quality of public officers within institutions. This also explains why the current focus of attention is ever more on individuals (as the main cause for unethical conduct) and the bad-person model of integrity. An alterna­tive framing of this paper is about ‘institutional ethics’ over time. During the last decades, we are moving from an institutional, but mechanical and rigid Weberian model, to an individual, but more fluid New Public Management model. We are moving towards a version of institutional in­tegrity that tries to use new behavioural mechanism to get back to some Weberian virtues, without its structures and technical focus. This novel ‘integrity management’ movement is really all about filling the gaps left by New Public Management doctrines. However, the reform of integrity management also develops into a specialised, sophisticated and profes­sionalised ethics bureaucracy. Trends are towards ever more broader and stricter integrity requirements. Still, ethics policies are ineffective and shortcomings in implementing integrity policies are neglected.

Engineers or Lawyers? Institutions and Demand for Higher Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 30-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Natkhov ◽  
L. Polishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Quality Of Institutions ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Law and public administration schools in Russia vastly exceed in their popularity sciences and engineering. We relate such lopsided demand for higher education to the quality of institutions setting “rules of the game” in economy and society. Cross-country and Russian interregional data indicate the quality of institutions (rule of law, protection of property rights etc.) is negatively associated with the demand for education in law, and positively — in sciences and engineering. More gifted younger people are particularly sensitive to the quality of institutions in choosing their fields of study, and such selection is an important transmission channel between institutions and economic growth.

Dirk J. Wolfson. Public Finance and development Strategy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1979. Pp. xiv+264.

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-257
Author(s):  
Zafar Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Council

The world in its politico-economic aspects is run by policy-makers who have an academic background in law or public administration or other related social disciplines including economics. Only rarely would a majority of the policy-makers be trained in economics. In the making of economic policy, the basic choices before the policy-makers are political and they transcend the narrow concerns of economists regarding optimal use of resources. These considerations in no way downgrade the relevance of economic analysis in economic policy-making and for the training of policy-maker in economics. Policy-makers need economic council to understand fully the implications of alternative policy options. In this book, Wolfson attempts to educate policy-makers in the areas of public finance and development strategy. The analysis avoids technicalities and is kept to a simple level to make it understandable to civil servants, law-makers and members of the executive branch whom Wolfson refers to as policy-makers. Simplicity of analysis is not the only distinguishing mark of this book. Most other books on public finance are usually addressed to traditional public finance issues relating to both the revenue and expenditure sides of the budget and neglect an overall mix of issues dealing with the interaction of fiscal policy with economic development. Wolfson in this book explicitly deals with these issues.

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