Introduction The Colombian government has undertaken numerous reforms in its public administration with the aim of enhancing bureaucratic capacity, effectiveness and efficiency (Younes, 2004 ; Restrepo, 2011 ). These reforms have taken place hand in hand with successive international public administration approaches, from the traditional Weberian approach to NPM, to the New Public Governance (as developed in Osborne, 2010 ). This chapter undertakes a policy analysis of administrative policies in Colombia in terms of both the design and characteristics of
107 SEVEN Policy analysis and policy work in the central public administration Arnošt Veselý, Martin Nekola Introduction Ministries are somewhat enigmatic institutions for many people. Ministerial officials are usually guarded from ordinary citizens by reception clerks who reject all unauthorised visitors. Information on what concrete tasks are undertaken in a given ministry and which members of staff are responsible for them is often restricted. Not surprisingly, then, research on what ministerial officials do is rather limited. This is especially true for
69 5 Perspectives used in studying professions: social policy and public administration Introduction The sociology of professions makes an important contribution to the study of stratification – more important than is often realised (Macdonald and Ritzer, 1988). A reason for this is that the professions started to appear in their present form contemporaneously with modern capitalist industrial society. As modern society is knowledge- based, professions as knowledge-based occupations, are an integral part of, for example, how the modern class system
; Kimbell, 2016) . As a result, the problems governments are dealing with have become increasingly complex, and so have the solutions – policies and services – they develop: they have become increasingly integrated, spanning across levels of public administration and involving different actors (Chindarkar et al, 2017) . As a result, governments are confronted with a significant design challenge: how to deal with ‘wicked problems’ (Rittel and Webber, 1973) in such a way that effective and efficient policies and services result, which are perceived as legitimate
Introduction This article focuses on a study whose objective was to analyse the role of the third sector in designing and providing regional public policy tools within the context provided by the ‘Gipuzkoan model’ of public–private collaboration. The study was carried out in Gipuzkoa, which is one of the three provinces in the Basque Country in Spain, and the research adopted a participatory approach based on qualitative techniques. Professionals from public administration and the third sector were given voice to answer the following research questions: Where
; Bason, 2017 ). As a result, the problems governments are dealing with have become increasingly complex, and so have the solutions – policies and services – they develop: they have become increasingly integrated, spanning across levels of public administration and involving different actors ( Chindarkar et al, 2017 ). As a result, governments are confronted with a significant design challenge: how to deal with ‘wicked problems’ ( Rittel and Webber, 1973 ) in such a way that effective and efficient policies and services result, which are perceived as legitimate
Policy and Politics, Vol. 10 No. I (1982),65-83 65 CRITICAL REASON AND POLITICAL POWER IN PROJECT REVIEW ACTIVITY: Serving Freedom in Planning and Public Administration John Forester 'Reason cannot flourish without hope; hope cannot speak without reason.• Ernst Bloch Planners and public administrators have been attacked as handmaidens of the powerful, as rationalizers of decisions already made, and as professionals serving to legitimize political inequality.' In concrete cases, planners and public administrators have served these functions, at times deliberately
Introduction In this chapter I present a possible approach to teaching comparative public administration (hereafter, CPA), based on my own experience as a teacher of this subject in Latin American universities. Training on CPA is quite familiar in master’s programs of the region, in which one course of the curricula is usually devoted to the comparative study of public management and public policies. Teaching these courses admits multiple approaches, in terms of goals, contents, and methodologies. Personally, I start CPA courses by asking students about
Introduction Behind every organization we find a history, that is, a set of individual and collective experiences generated by people with ideas, values, and interests who built that organizational way of being. In the terms of Arellano Gault (2010 , p 83), “organizations are biographical entities that are composed of a series of actions, stages, encounters, concrete people who come and go, enter and leave. … This makes organizations a web of trajectories”. This chapter deals with the history of the Argentine Association of Public Administration Studies
several reforms aimed at the transformation and modernization of the stagnant public administration with the purpose of ordering the misalignments produced within the institutions. However, the initiatives were not limited to merely structural or functional issues, but sought to establish deeper changes aimed at reformulating the system of values within the institutions, in which respect for and defense of democracy would have to be essential: “The need for the existence of a public apparatus committed to democratic values was postulated” ( Negri, 2005 ). Thus, in
