Issues in the meaning of Pub Administration
- Is it just execution of law and public policy?
- Does it include others branches of the state or just the executive?
- Any role in policy formulation?
Reinventing government
- Focus on core competence of government
- Steering rather than rowing
- The ten points
NPM
- Downsizing
- Enhanced management competence using IT
- Critical performance appraisal
- Allowing the market to function in its designated sphere
Public Choice Approach
- 1960s
- Vincent Ostrom
- Extension of assumptions of individual rationality and utility maximization to administration
- Institutional pluralism
- In favour of the citizen’s choice in the provision of public goods and services
- Critical of monocentric, hierarchical traditional bureaucratic administration
- Democratic decentralised system of administration and organisational competitiveness
- Rejects the politics-administration dichotomy
- Locates pub ad within the domain of politics
New Public Service
- Denhardt and Denhardt
- Government shouldn’t be run like business, it should be run like a democracy
- Public interest and democratic citizenship
- Reconnect with the citizens
- Co-governance
- New attitude and new involvement
Good Governance
- Government vs Governance
- WB
- Public Sector Management
- Accountability
- Legal Framework for development
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