Paradigm Of Public Administration Research Articles

Deliberative mini-publics as a Confucian institution

This article constructs a positive case for deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) from the perspective of contemporary Confucian political philosophy. Extant empirical and normative studies of DMPs have treated them primarily as a concrete way to instantiate the deliberative conception of legitimacy advocated by Western political philosophers such as John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas. Almost no attention has been paid to how certain non-Western philosophies like Confucianism could provide different understandings of such an institutional innovation. The article fills this gap by exploring why DMPs should be incorporated into the two ideal types of regimes considered by today’s Confucian political philosophers, Confucian democracy and Confucian political meritocracy. In this regard, it makes an original contribution to both the field of democratic theory and the emerging paradigm of Confucian public administration.

Philosophical and legal interpretations of modern theory of public administration in Ukraine

The aim of the article is to systematize the research results on the definition of the public administration concept and its characteristics. Providing such an opportunity is combining general theoretical and special legal methodology of conducting scientific research. Research results. The authors studied the issues of its organizational and implementation components to form a common vision regarding the evolution of the public administration paradigm in general, as well as its features at the current stage of Ukraine’s development as an independent democratic state that is in armed confrontation with an aggressor country. Practical implementation. Since the declaration of Ukraine’s independence, an attempt has been made to optimize the institutional aspect of socio-economic and political reforms, but we may assert that the path chosen at that time was wrong, because it would be more appropriate to conduct administrative reform in a different direction. In this regard, there is still a tendency to constantly optimize domestic legislation and adapt it to the basic principles of public administration which have proven their effectiveness abroad. Value/originality. It is argued that the world community reached a consensus on the expediency of re-orienting all state mechanisms, processes, and relations with the private sector to a person-centred approach, where the individual is postulated as the highest social value, the center of the entire social system and structure.

The Role of Open Government in Maintaining Trust in Public Administration

The concept of trust has gained significance in the discourse surrounding traditional public administration, which has been questioned in various respects regarding its relationship with the public. The political, social, and economic changes that have occurred in recent times have led to numerous transformations in the unx”derstanding of public administration. It is crucial to maintain trust in relationships, and this is a topic that has been thoroughly discussed. Trust approaches are evaluated within public administration paradigms in this study. The objective of this research is to assess how government openness impacts citizens’ trust in the government. To measure the influence of open states on public trust, European social research data and data from the open government index, developed by the World Justice Project, were utilised. To investigate whether the countries’ level of open statehood alters trust in public administration, the study initially utilized the Kruskal-Wallis test, followed by the Mann-Whitney U test to identify the variance origin. The findings confirmed the positive impact of open statehood on trust.

E-governance as a new public administration paradigm: a rhetoric or reality?

This study was motivated by the need to shift from the illusory perception of longing for e-Governance to be declared a new paradigm of Public Administration. Public Administration is said to be static, but yet dynamic. Implying that the dynamics of Public Administration can incorporate electronic governance (e-Governance) to improve matters of governance, public service delivery, accountability and transparency in public affairs. However, even with an incongruous adoption and implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within the South African government, this study shed light on the empirical and systematic evidence and analytical distinction between e-Governance and public administration. The analysis suggests that the complexity and implication of e-Governance via the use of ICTs may enhance government efficacy. Still, it cannot be entirely trusted in maintaining administration and government-businesses-citizens interaction partly due to its rapid technological changes and the various conditions of its implementation within different nations including South Africa. With the aid of qualitative research methods, which heavily relied on secondary data gathered from scholarly journals, academic books, trusted databases and websites, this study reveal that there is scant evidence to support research in incorporating e-Governance as a new paradigm of Public Administration due to the imbalance, network failures, inadequate ICTs infrastructure to govern in a democratic manner which include all citizens. This study concludes that e-Governance is already analysed from a public administration dynamic and complementary perspective implying that it is an analytically and structurally incomplete reform to take its full form as a new Public Administration paradigm due to its rapid technological changes.

O termo de ajuste de gestão como instrumento de controle externo consensual no Brasil

The consensual control of public management emerges in an atmosphere of hermeneutic reinterpretation of the traditional paradigms of public administration. Such changes perceived in a post-pandemic world are reflected in the research currently undertaken, highlighting a clear intensification of approaches to governance and heuristic strategies that seek to overcome problems, fostering critical studies on controlling action and its practical effects on resource management public. In this prospective sense, the present work aims to investigate to what extent the Management Adjustment Term (TAG), based on consensus among the actors involved, constitutes a legitimate instrument for the exercise of external control of the public administration by the brazilian Courts of Accounts (TC). The identification and exploratory analysis of the inducing and limiting elements of its celebration within the scope of the controlling bureaucracies, based on a qualitative approach to the data collected through interviews and document analysis, made it possible to highlight a parameterization deficit that can compromise legal certainty, isonomy and impersonality in the institutional relations established in the control processes. The empirical study of a sample of celebrated TAGs resulted in a circumstantial diagnosis of the low effectiveness of these instruments, concluding, prospectively, that their legitimacy depends on assumptions related to the reputation of the controlling bureaucracies before their audiences, permeating the recognition of their exceptionality and the risks inherent in their management.

Islamic public administration and Islamic public value: Towards a research agenda

This essay explores whether religion has a place in addressing public challenges, particularly in the context of Non-Western Public Administration paradigms such as Confucian, Buddhist, and Islamic. The authors focus on Islam as a case study and highlight the need for real-life cases to build a grounded theory. To this end, the essay documents the authors’ ongoing research on Islamic Public Value. We argue that to understand Public Administration in a global context, it is essential to recognize the limitations of a Western perspective, from which the dichotomy of religious versus secular emerged, and in so doing, consider alternative departure points, i.e. paradigms incorporating religious or semi-religious elements.

The Role of Local Government in Improving the Economy and Welfare of the Wamesa Great Tribes Society in West Papua, Through A Sustainable Forest Development Program: in the Perspective of Collaborative Governance in Public Service

The purpose of this study is to analyze and describe the role of local government in improving the economy and welfare of the Wamensa great tribal community in West Papua, through a sustainable customary forest development program in the perspective of Collaborative Governance in Public Service. Collaborative governance is an important process in the Indonesian government today. The government implements Collaborative governance by providing space for other actors to participate, such as the national private, foreign, and public. Collaborative management aims to reduce conflict, facilitate learning, and increase consensus among stakeholders. As a legal administrator, the government should work effectively and efficiently in providing good public services to all citizens. Currently, West Papua still has around 81% of sustainable forest remaining, with a wealth of various types of wild animals with ecosystems in it (mega-biodiversity). Local Government as key in making policies has impacts on improving the economy and people's welfare. This research used a qualitative method with a case study in the customary forest of the Wamesa great tribe in West Papua. The study results showed that there are 3 main indicators to support the success of the Government's role in sustainable forest development, such as; economic, social, and ecological. However, there is a governance Pillar in the paradigm of public administration to show the success of collaborative governance. It required collaborative governance management synergically between government and non-government actors. The aim is to consensus on adaptive solutions through forest resource management. They are concerned with economic, social, and ecological complexities, as a concrete form of the vision and mission of the Regional Government in providing public services, as a portfolio documentation of national development.

The rise and fall of an NPM-style reform in China: a longitudinal case study of sanitation service delivery in Guangzhou

ABSTRACT This article explores how three types of logic of action – consequences, appropriateness, and power dynamics – configurate to shape the trajectory of an illustrative NPM-style reform in China, reflecting how the NPM paradigm has evolved through layering, displacement, and hybridization. Using a longitudinal case study in Guangzhou, we trace sanitation service delivery modalities from in-house delivery to contracting-out, to standardized contracting-out, to contracting-in, and finally, to public-private partnerships with state-owned enterprise. Our findings underscore the salience of the logic of power dynamics in an authoritarian context, suggesting NPM as a transitionary paradigm bridging traditional public administration and hybrid paradigms in China.

AN ASSESSMENT OF STATES’ WEBSITES IN MALAYSIA: AN EVALUATIVE STUDY

Electronic Government (e-government) has been known as a significant tool in serving the Malaysian administration system. Since 1991, a lot of efforts and initiatives have been carried out in order to implement the system at the state level. As there are not many kinds of literature concentrating on the state website development, hence this study is crucial to show the progress of e-government implementation across the states. Therefore, this paper proposes a theoretical framework of e-government based on three levels of paradigms of public administration namely Old Public Administration, New Public Administration and New Public Service. This study employed a qualitative study by using content analysis method where all thirteen states websites serve as a unit of analysis. The results found that different states’ websites performed with different scores over one another. Generally, this study found that most of the state’s websites are in the second phase; New Public Administration. From the results collected, challenges to the effectiveness and efficiency of e-government are discussed based on several categories namely website visibility, website freshness, website establishment date and website usability.
 
 Keywords: E-government, State websites, Old Public Administration, New Public Administration, New Public Service. 
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E-government as a tool to improve the efficiency of public administration: The case of Kazakhstan

Digitalization contributed to the modernization of public administration, particularly e-government development. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of e-government in improving the efficiency of public administration in Kazakhstan. The research methods are comparative, economic-statistical, and qualitative content analysis. The sources of statistical data were the Bureau of National Statistics, the Committee of public services, the e-government portal, and reports of international organizations and national development institutions. The study determined that e-government is a modern paradigm of public administration that contributes to the efficiency of public administration; its development and efficiency are significantly influenced by financial, economic, technological, and legal factors. Kazakhstan has a high level of e-government development. The e-government development portal in Kazakhstan has contributed to improving public administration, especially during the pandemic. However, e-government requires further development, as its functioning has various issues (low degree of information relevance, insufficient portal filling, and low share of automated functions). At the same time, the readiness of public administration organizations for digital transformation is medium. The study proposes recommendations for Kazakhstan’s e-government development to improve public administration, mainly developing technological infrastructure and digital human capital. The results can contribute to the further e-government development in Kazakhstan and enrich the theoretical base in increasing the efficiency of public administration in the context of digital transformation. AcknowledgmentsThis study is supported by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant “Priorities and mechanisms of inclusive regional development of Kazakhstan in the context of overcoming the economic recession,” IRN AP09259004).

Existential aspects of human existence and the human-centered paradigm in public administration

This article analyzes the philosophical doctrine of the spiritual nature of man as the fundamental basis of his existence. The main focus of the analysis is Viktor Frankl's book "The Unconscious God," which presents an original anthropological theory encompassing all levels of human existence. By perceiving man holistically, this perspective contributes significantly to understanding human nature as a unique form of being. According to Frankl, the spiritual dimension can manifest both consciously and rationally, as well as unconsciously and irrationally. The crucial aspect lies in awakening and activating this spiritual principle within individuals, even if they are unaware of it. In his research, Frankl delves into dreams as a means of exploring the manifestations of the spiritual unconscious, and he conducts an in-depth analysis of conscience as a spiritual existential. This study's relevance stems from the growing prevalence of noogenic neurosis among educated and developed individuals in contemporary society, characterized by a profound sense of meaninglessness and an existential void. Essential existential elements fade from people's worldviews, transforming concepts like love, faith, hope, responsibility, and conscience into mere mental categories. A deeper understanding of this nature represents a crucial step in overcoming the noogenic crisis and facilitating further human evolution.

Challenges to Local Public Service in the Post Pandemic

The relevance of the New Public Administration (NPA) Paradigm initiated by Frederickson shows its increasing power. Although this paradigm appeared far before the change in global post-pandemic conditions, the New Public Administration (NPA) Paradigm is capable of guiding the public administrative measures to respond to the challenge of post-pandemic social change, especially in the public service administration aspect. Public service before the pandemic, especially at the local government level, had found form and quality issues. The public service at the local level is attempting to respond to public needs and social changes that are always a big challenge for public administration. The pandemic suddenly worsened and was a blow to the process of public administration adjustment to the changes. The public service that needed modernization was badly hit by the pandemic. Therefore, this article aims to identify challenges to public administration in the context of post-pandemic changes in public service. This research used a focus group discussion method with stakeholders and documentation as the secondary data. This article successfully shows the important position of amplification of changes and responsiveness in public administration, especially in public service delivery.
 Keywords: new public administration, public service delivery, policy change, post-pandemic era, responsiveness

THE ASPIRATIONS OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PARADIGM

The public administration paradigm plays an important role in determining the guidelines and policies of political parties in managing the country. Political parties have different aspirations for conducting public administration. Due to various expectations of political parties that may arise from different operating concepts, having different political parties will affect government administration in different ways. The aspirations of political parties can be divided into several categories, such as increased autonomy and civil rights. Creating equality and justice by increasing opportunities for study and skill development creates a sustainable economy, enhances environmental security, and so on. The public administration paradigm about political party aspirations can have features such as budget allocation that are in line with the political party's ideas and policies. Improving public sector processes to increase efficiency and transparency, creating a suitable organizational structure and operational flexibility, and establishing public-private partnerships to foster effective development. In practice, public administration depends on the aspirations and policies of political parties, accompanied by political change. Ministers with the same aspirations can be engines for sustainable change and development in society.

Comparative Analysis of Public Administration Models on the Example of Healthcare Sector

The goal of this article is to disclose the main models of public administration in the example of healthcare sphere. The authors used such general scientific and special methods: historical and legal, comparative, relative and legal, system analysis and formal logics. Revealed the link between the models of public administration and the healthcare sphere. It was marked on the most typical manifestations of administrative influence inherent in particular model in the sphere of healthcare. It was established that different models of public administration function effectively in different states. However, national healthcare systems predominantly use a combination of several models by adding elements of other models to the dominant model. It was concluded that the current models of public administration in the field of healthcare are characterized by: verticalization and centralization of power responsibilities for OPM, implementation of market techniques in the public sector for NPM and an emphasis on human rights and growth for GG. Among modern paradigms of public administration, we have highlighted the LG model, the essence of which lies in continuous implementation of innovations to improve efficiency and prioritize the interests of the consumer, which is the patient in the sphere of healthcare.

Islamic Public Administration in Sunlight and Shadow: Theory and Practice

Abstract The combination of theoretical principles and centuries-old, yet still functional, practices and institutions that together form the Islamic paradigm of public administration (PA) have customarily been absent from both academic literature and PA reform policies, not least in the NISPAcee region. With, e. g., the arrival of Peter’s Administrative Traditions last year, however, Islamic PA has now been positioned within the mainstream, that is, recognized as a legitimate, contextually relevant alternative to the global-Western paradigm. Accordingly, this article aims to further delineate the Islamic PA tradition by discussing its positionality and significance within Non-Western PA, surveying its normative principles, exploring a set of contemporary case studies in Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Morocco, and concluding with a broader reflection on the importance of contextuality and heterogeneity for good PA.

Kamu Yönetimi Bağlamında Afet Yönetiminde Örnek Bir Uygulama: AYDES

Dünyanın küresel salgınla birlikte kaosa sürüklendiği bir dönemde artan nüfusla birlikte kamu yönetimi kavramı önem kazanmakta ve devletlerin yeni politikalar oluşturarak bunların planlanmasında aktif roller üstlenecek aktörleri tayin etmesi ve güçlendirmesi hayati bir anlam ifade etmektedir. Geleneksel kamu yönetimi anlayışının terk edildiği günümüzde kamu yönetiminde şeffaf, esnek, vatandaş odaklı, kamuya açık kaynakların doğru kullanılması sürecini öne çıkaran politikalara duyulan ihtiyaç yeni kamu yönetimi paradigmasını desteklemektedir. Yeni kamu yönetimi anlayışının hâkim olduğu afet yönetimi ise esnek tabanlı yapısını ortaya koymakta ve afetlerde hızlı karar alma mekanizmalarının uygulanmasına olanak tanıyan işlev üstlenmektedir. 2018 yılında Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kararnamesiyle Türkiye Cumhuriyeti İçişleri Bakanlığı bünyesine katılan AFAD afetlerin öngörülmesi, planlanması, organize edilmesi, her aşamasının takip edilmesi ve iyileştirilmesi konusunda yetkili kılınmıştır. İçişleri Bakanlığının hem afet yönetimi hem de iç güvenlikten sorumlu olmasının sinerjetik etkileri de bu kapsamda önemli görülmektedir. Afet durumlarında doğru bilgi ve konuma ulaşmak, sağlıklı iletişimi sağlamak büyük önem taşımaktadır. AFAD’ın afetler konusunda dünya standartlarını takip ettiğinin en önemli göstergelerinden biri olan AYDES uygulaması bileşenleriyle birlikte kapsamlı bir bilgi ağı sunmakta ve ekiplere destek sağlamaktadır. Coğrafi bilgi sistemleri üzerine inşa edilen, karar destek mekanizmalarına sahip web tabanlı bir uygulama olan AYDES’in, büyük kısmının alt bileşeni ilgili kurum ve kuruluşlarla ortak kapalı bir sistem üzerinden veri akışını sağlarken yine bir alt modül olarak, Bütünleşik Afet Yönetim Platformuyla vatandaş erişimine imkân sunmaktadır. Bu imkân vatandaşı da afet yönetiminin bir parçası haline getirmektedir. Ulusal/uluslararası düzeyde çok tanınmayan bu uygulamanın literatürde kaynağı sınırlıdır. Bununla birlikte sınırlı erişime sahip olan uygulama hakkında eldeki verilerin bir araya getirilmesi ve yorumlanması çalışmanın önemini ortaya koymaktadır. Kamu yönetimindeki yeni yönetim anlayışının bir yansıması olarak değerlendirilebilecek bu uygulama hakkında literatürde sınırlı bilgiye rastlanmaktadır. Afet yönetiminin Türkiye’deki işleyiş biçimlerini konu kapsamında gösteren çalışma AYDES uygulamasının geniş bir analizini yapmayı amaç edinmiştir. Gelişmiş teknolojik imkânlarla oluşturulmuş uygulamanın bilgi akışını sağlamak konusunda büyük katkılar sağlayacağı ve afet yönetiminin şeklini değiştireceği göz önünde bulundurulduğunda uygulamanın teknolojik olarak sürekli güncellenmesi ve sürdürülebilirliğinin sağlanması son derece önemli görülmektedir.

From Bureaucrats to Entrepreneurs to Networkers, Advocates, and Empaths: Reappraising Human Resources Management Ideals and Practices in Public Administration

This article assesses how changing paradigms of public administration have been reflected in public sector human resources management over time. It finds that large-scale reform acts, such as the Pendleton Act or the Civil Service Reform Act and the National Performance Review reflected the “ideals” of the rule-following bureaucrat of the Old Public Administration (OPA) and of the result-seeking entrepreneur of New Public Management (NPM). However, the advocate, empath, and networker of New Public Administration (NPA) and New Public Service (NPS) has not been pursued through similarly encompassing reform efforts. While gradual changes such as a more representative bureaucracy and increased collaborative governance have paved the way for a deeper integration of NPA and NPS values into human resource policy and practice, more efforts are needed to promote advocates, empaths, and networkers as the core of the “new” public service. We conclude by making some tentative suggestions in this direction.

Рождение чрезвычайного государства из духа вечности политического тела

The philosophical project "Homo Sacer" by the modern Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben (born in 1942) is based on a consistent highlighting of the process of Western European history that leads to the establishment of the state of emergency as a common technology of public administration today. This article offers an outline of the genesis of the state of emergency (emergency state) from the point of view of the evolution of ideas about the state in the aspect of the metaphor of the human body. In view of the fact that the logic of the state of emergency is based on the concept of a necessity (necessitas), which allows to suspend the normal functioning of law and order, it is necessary to raise the question of the origin of this relationship. The author believes that the source of the idea of the relationship between the state of emergency and necessity is the needs of the human body, the absolute urgency of which is the starting point of political organization (Plato, Aristotle). The system of views on the state as a body that emerged in the Greco-Roman worldview was clearly developed in the medieval civilization of the West. From this point on, we can talk about the emergence of the concept of "political body", within which the understanding of key sociopolitical relations took place. The combination of the Aristotelian concept of the eternity of the world with the strengthening of the absolute power of the secular sovereign and practical needs led to the formation of the idea of the permanent state with its constant needs. The new state rationality, associated with the need to meet the needs of the state and thus ensure its self-preservation, has acquired the form of biopolitics, which actually blurs the border between the political and the biological. The state of emergency becomes a paradigm of public administration, motivated by the idea of the identity of natural processes and the existence of society. The constant and imperishable nature of these processes sets the basis for the production of state of emergency, which loses its connection to a certain point in time and becomes a potentially eternal and continuous state.

Innovation and Development in Improving Public Services During the New Normal Era in Indonesia

Various changes that occurred due to the emergence of COVID-19 and the entry of the new normal era led to the government’s need for innovation and new development in providing public services to the community. This study aims to examine how the government can create innovations and develop various public services in Indonesia in the new normal period. This research will use a qualitative approach using analytical methods. The data in this study was obtained from various studies and studies that are still relevant to this research. This study found that the government has made multiple innovations for the public service sector. The form of these innovations is the focus in the APBN budget to deal with the APBN in such areas as health, education, social, or economic aspects. This is developing following the Industrial Revolution 4.0 era and the paradigm in public administration, which conceptually adopts many practices from private organizations. The government establishes partnerships with private organizations to study and seek innovative ideas in public service.

Public administration: State apparatus leadership in the present era

Aim: Achieving leadership success in the modern era takes time and effort. It is a public administration challenge to find the appropriate response for leaders in a situation where it is hoped that they will be able to make many changes by adopting new paradigms of public administration and management.Methodology: This study employs a qualitative, descriptive methodology. Information was gathered from reading materials and relevant scholarly articles.Findings: According to the study’s results, leaders open to change and lifelong learning are best positioned to meet the challenges of public administration under the new leadership paradigm. There is a need for leaders who can transform organizations to meet the challenges of modern public administration. Leaders fearless in adapting to new circumstances are essential in today’s world, where rapid, dynamic changes are the norm so that institutions like the state stay caught up.Implications/Novel Contribution: There has been a shift toward a new paradigm in leadership in recent years, as it has become clear that the old ways of doing things won’t cut it in the era’s world. This study provides an overarching look at the types of leadership required to keep a team on track during the transition while being flexible enough to meet immediate needs.