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Pedersen, Karin Hilmer, and Lars Johannsen. "Administrative Processes as an Anti-Corruption Tool? A View from Public Employees in the Baltic States." Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 11, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 131–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2018-0006.
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Abstract Many studies have documented the negative effect of corruption on development, economic growth, and democracy. Independent anti-corruption agencies are often recommended as the tool to curb corruption. However, their efficiency depends on the political will to allocate authority, powers, and resources. Moreover, setting up new institutions is always costly and accordingly problematic to low and middle income countries. The present study suggests that public administration processes in their own right are a tool to combat corruption. The article uses a survey with responses from 1706 public employees in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Using OLS regression, the study confirms others findings that strengthening meritocracy is an important factor in curbing corruption. It adds to this that enhancing monitoring is a factor just as effective against corruption as meritocracy. It adds attention to the reverse effect associated with hierarchical organizations, norms accepting rule bending, and network decisions. Finally, addressing salaries’ and performance payment’s impact on corruption the study finds no relation.
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Nakrošis, Vitalis. "The Turnover and Politicisation of Lithuanian Public Sector Managers." World Political Science Review 11, no. 1 (April 1, 2015): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/wpsr-2014-0019.
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AbstractThis article presents the results of our research on party patronage and state politicisation in different Lithuanian public sector organisations (government agencies and agencies under the ministries, state-owned enterprises, personal health care and educational institutions). Although repeating alterations of governments best explained the frequent turnover of some public sector heads, their politicisation was related to the length of party rule in power, beliefs of the political and administrative elite and density of the party networks. The legal protection of civil service jobs was only important in the case of the agencies under the ministries whose managers always held career civil service positions. Furthermore, substantial variation in the scope of politicisation was related to such administrative factors as the political salience of policy areas and organisational functions, as well as budget size, which suggested different motivations and opportunities of party patronage in the Lithuanian public sector.
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Goodsell, Charles T. "The Anti-Public Administration Presidency: The Damage Trump Has Wrought." American Review of Public Administration 49, no. 8 (July 25, 2019): 871–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074019862876.
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President Trump and his Administration have gravely damaged the institutions and values of American public administration. Harm has been done to the federal workforce, the policymaking process, the integrity of missions, agencies and programs, and the government’s relation to science.
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Riany, Kenneth Goga. "Influence of Electronic Administration on Public Service Delivery among State Agencies in Kenya." European Journal of Business and Management Research 6, no. 2 (March 16, 2021): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejbmr.2021.6.2.712.
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E-Administration remains a key E-Government strategy that seeks to ensure the management of the government institutions and organizations if effectively done to enhance effectiveness and proper service delivery. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of E-Administration on the public service delivery among state agencies in Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive research design to collect data from the target population comprising of 4230 employees within the management cadre at 132 specific government state agencies. Convenient sampling technique was used by the study to sample the respondents within the 132 specific government state agencies. A sampling formula was applied to calculate the sample size of 365 employees and self-developed questionnaires were used to collect data from the sample. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study found that E-Administration had a significant and positive influence on public service delivery by the state agencies in Kenya. The study further established that strategy execution had a significant moderating effect on the relationship between E-Administration and public service delivery by the state agencies in Kenya. The study recommended that the government through the state agencies should embrace E-Administration as a way of enhancing public service delivery. The management of state agencies should furthermore embrace strategy execution practices so as to enable success of E-Administration.
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Ruslin, Ruslin. "An Existence of State Administration Court in Establishing Good Governance." Aloha International Journal of Multidisciplinary Advancement (AIJMU) 1, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.33846/aijmu10101.
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Administration officials have broad authority in carrying out the affair of government. With this broad authority tends to be misused to cause harm and injustice in the society, therefore there must be other institutions that control it. Based on the theory of Trigs Politico executive agencies are politically controlled by the legislative and juridical institutions controlled by the judiciary, because the officials running the state administration executive functions that control the judiciary is legally the state administrative court. Judicial control of administrative functions of the state administrative court in addition aims to provide legal protection for the public and state administration officials themselves, as well as state administrative law enforcement agencies who aspire to realize a good and authoritative government.
Keywords: Good government, State administration court
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Barbieri, Dario, and Edoardo Ongaro. "EU agencies: what is common and what is distinctive compared with national-level public agencies." International Review of Administrative Sciences 74, no. 3 (September 2008): 395–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852308095310.
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The number and relevance of EU agencies have rapidly increased over the years: EU agencies nowadays constitute an important part of the EU institutional landscape. The article investigates the EU agencies through categories of analysis well established in studies of public management focused on the phenomenon of agencies at the country level: structural disaggregation, autonomy, and contractualization. It emerges that EU agencies are relatively homogeneous, an aspect that differentiates European agencies from the highly heterogeneous world of national-level agencies. The main features of the EU agencies are examined, the `European type' of agency is identified and defined, and the way the EU agency model differs from country-level agencies is analysed. Research agendas on the reform of the European Union might benefit from systematic investigation of EU agencies: theoretical frameworks drawn from the public management field can provide a significant contribution in this respect. Points for practitioners EU agencies are no longer `residual' organizations: they are a significant component of the functioning of the EU system and policy networks. By investigating the features of such agencies through the conceptual lenses of public management, and through comparison with the (much more investigated) national-level agencies, the article provides an outline of EU agencies in terms of structural relations with the other EU institutions, autonomy, and modalities of steering and control. Reforms of the EU through the establishment or revamping of agencies could benefit from the systematic consideration of such features.
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Michener, Gregory, Evelyn Contreras, and Irene Niskier. "From opacity to transparency? Evaluating access to information in Brazil five years later." Revista de Administração Pública 52, no. 4 (August 2018): 610–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220170289.
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Abstract How well is Brazil’s access to information (ATI) law working five years after passage? And what can be done to improve it? Drawing on official data as well as nine evaluations of compliance with ATI obligations, interviews with policymakers, and archival research, this paper provides descriptive and inferential statistics on compliance with ATI requests and indicators of implementation. Results show that less than one in every two requests in Brazil obtains a response from agencies, and more than 50% of requests exceed the time limits established in the law. Evidence of weak commitments to ATI are also illustrated by the paucity of several key indicators of compliance, including statistics on requests, declared commitments to ATI, ATI-specific platforms for making requests, and designated oversight institutions. Brazil urgently needs to invest in greater information management, empowering oversight institutions to implement and adjudicate ATI obligations.
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Blace, Nestor Pabiona. "The Relevance of Public Administration Education: Towards Professional Development of Men and Women in Public Organizations." Public Administration Research 4, no. 2 (October 28, 2015): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/par.v4n2p52.
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<p>This study investigated several factors on the need and continuing relevance of the public administration education. Primary data were gathered through the questionnaires administered to the Maser in Public Administration (MPA) graduates, their immediate heads, and their co-employees. The data gathered were analyzed through frequency distribution, percentage, mean and t-test. <br />The findings of the study revealed that the degrees earned by the respondents before taking the MPA degree vary. This implies that the decision to enroll in the MPA degree is not determined by the degrees that they possess, but by their employment in the government agencies or institutions. The findings further revealed that the MPA degree earned by the graduate-respondents had helped them in terms of job advancement, promotions and movement in employment. The knowledge, skills and values that the respondents should acquire and practice as government employees have been inculcated in them through the public administration education that they pursued.</p>
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Davies, Philip H. J. "Intelligence and the Machinery of Government." Public Policy and Administration 25, no. 1 (January 2010): 29–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076709347073.
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This article argues that the failure to address intelligence agencies as public organizations part and parcel with the overt machinery of government constitutes a significant lacuna both in the specialist study of intelligence and the broader discipline of public administration studies. The role and status of intelligence institutions as aspects of the machinery of central government is examined, along with the prospects of certain key paradigms in the field for understanding those institutions are considered. Finally, the implications for the wider study of decision-making, policy and public management will be examined.
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Ungurytė-Ragauskienė, Svajūnė, and Mantas Bileišis. "When a Market Runs a Hierarchy: Retrenchment of Bureaucratic Practices in Lithuanian Uniformed Services." Socialiniai tyrimai 41, no. 1 (July 2, 2018): 18–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21277/st.v41i1.242.
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Some public administration literature that focuses on public administration reform indulges in constructing grand narrative theories such as New Public Management (NPM), or New Governance (NG). The most recent such theory that has been gaining attention over the past decade is the Neo Weberian State (NWS). The content of the theory with regard to its practical implication when it comes to reform is still unsettled. However, one key assumption behind the NWS is that reforms should be handled with care, as they may undermine the very institutions that have brought Western societies to the levels of their development they are in now. NPM’s drive to increase efficiency, and NG’s – democracy from the point of view of NWS is impossible if reforms deconstruct institutions that ensure the protection of the public interest and rule of law. NWS’s critique of post-communist reform efforts in the new eastern EU member-states is a case in point suggesting that leapfrogging the construction of a professional bureaucracy is ill-advised and does not lead to politically desired outcomes. In this paper we aim to evaluate which path of reform may lead to the best outcomes in a particular area of the public service – two non-military uniformed services of Lithuania – customs and penitentiary. These services have to a large degree avoided sweeping reforms throughout the independence period, in both cases – a soviet institutional legacy is also a factor. Both Customs and the Penitentiary service are suffering from multiple corruption scandals and very low public trust levels. These services are continuously in the crosshairs of reform, but few have been clearly articulated, even less so – implemented. Applying NPM to uniformed services, due to the nature of their functions was complicated, so as reforms in the 1990s and 2000s went along in the other sectors, policy-makers have largely left uniformed to their own devices, and this has led to retrenchment of the bureaucratic principles as would historical institutionalisms theory predict. We suggest that NPM-oriented governance avoids intervention in areas where NPM principles are hard to apply, leaving such areas without proper attention to continue down undesirable development paths. When the deconstruction of a hierarchy appears impossible, higher order governance needs to remain modelled as hierarchy as well. NWS in this case does offer a management modernization agenda, which could keep state institutions in step with social, technological, and economic developments.
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Loozekoot, André, and Geske Dijkstra. "Public accountability and the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability tool: an assessment." International Review of Administrative Sciences 83, no. 4 (December 4, 2015): 806–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852315597773.
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Since 2005, the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability tool has been widely used in developing countries and emerging economies to evaluate the performance of public financial management systems. In this article, we assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability instrument tool for evaluating public financial accountability. We examine the theoretical literature on public accountability in order to derive a suitable normative framework to assess the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability tool. However, given that this literature is based on experiences in developed countries, we must extend it to also take into account the political cultures and practices in developing countries. Using this extended framework, we assess the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability indicators related to, in particular, parliamentary committees for financial oversight and Supreme Audit Institutions. We conclude that the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability tool could devote more attention to the independence of Supreme Audit Institutions, the nature of accountability debates, democratic inclusion and horizontal accountability mechanisms Points for practitioners The Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability tool has been applied in more than 116 countries and its reports offer valuable information for practitioners and researchers around the world. It is the only publicly available data set that measures the performance of financial committees of parliament and Supreme Audit Institutions. The strengths and weaknesses revealed in this article should be taken into account when using the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability tool for research or for evaluating the quality of financial accountability systems in particular countries. The international financial institutions and donor agencies governing the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Secretariat can use the recommendations of this article to further improve the framework.
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Adobor, Henry, Enyonam Kudonoo, and Alireza Daneshfar. "Knowledge management capability and organizational memory: a study of public sector agencies." International Journal of Public Sector Management 32, no. 6 (August 2, 2019): 671–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpsm-10-2018-0225.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore organizational memory (OM) in three public agencies in a developing country context. Research suggests that knowledge management (KM) can build a nation’s intellectual capital and improve the effectiveness of public sector management. Therefore, how knowledge is preserved is important. Design/methodology/approach The study targeted three large public institutions in Ghana. The study used a survey of 756 individuals in managerial and operational level positions in institutions to test the hypotheses in the study. Findings The findings confirm that knowledge management capability (KMC) has a positive and significant impact on OM. Knowledge acquisition and retention capabilities, in particular, are critical variables in building OM. Research limitations/implications The research relied on self-reports and so one cannot completely rule out social desirability and consistency biases. Using cross-sectional data also makes it difficult to make inferences about the causality. Practical implications Public agencies desirous of building their OM will need to build critical KMC and infrastructure. Originality/value This paper links KMC to OM in public institutions in an emerging country context.
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Smith-Walter, Aaron, and Fatima Sparger Sharif. "is government (un)dead?: What apocalyptic fiction tells us about our view of public administration." International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior 17, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 336–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijotb-17-03-2014-b004.
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The zombie-plague apocalypse is a powerful social imaginary that focuses attention on the border between legitimate citizens and zombie “others.” The surge in the number of zombie apocalypse films provides an illuminating area for studying the role imagined for public administration by popular culture. The response to zombies in apocalyptic films brings to fore new realities with the re-conceptualization of the legitimacy and authority of government. This re-conceptualization provides content for analyzing the portrayal of existing governmental institutions overwhelmed by the apocalypse, including local governments, the military, public health agencies, emergency services, and public utilities,
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Clement, Sarah, Susan A. Moore, Michael Lockwood, and Tiffany H. Morrison. "A diagnostic framework for biodiversity conservation institutions." Pacific Conservation Biology 21, no. 4 (2015): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc15032.
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Biodiversity loss is a critical issue on the environmental agenda, with species-based approaches failing to stem the decline. Landscape-scale approaches offer promise, but require institutional change. This article describes a novel conceptual framework for assessing institutional arrangements to tackle this persistent problem. In doing so, two critical issues for biodiversity governance are addressed. The first is a need to enrich largely theoretical descriptions of adaptive governance by considering how the practical realities of institutional environments (e.g. public agencies) limit achievement of an adaptive governance ‘ideal’. The second is enabling explicit consideration of the unique aspects of biodiversity as a ‘policy problem’ in the analysis of institutional arrangements. The framework contributes to efforts to design more adaptive institutional arrangements, through supporting a more sophisticated and grounded institutional analysis incorporating insights from institutional theory, especially literature on organisational environments and public administration. Concepts from Pragmatism also contribute to this grounding, providing insight into how public agencies can play a more productive role in biodiversity conservation and building public consent for management actions. The diagnostic categories in the framework include the attributes of the biodiversity problem and the involved players; the political context; and practices contributing to both competence and capacity. Guidance on how to apply the framework and an example of its application in Australia illustrate the utility of this tool for institutional diagnosis and design. Development of this diagnostic framework could be further enhanced by empirically informed elaboration of the relationships between its components, and of the nature of, and factors influencing, key concerns for adaptation, particularly learning, self-organising and buffering.
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Dzvinchuk, Dmytro, Mariana Orliv, Brigita Janiunaite, and Victor Petrenko. "Creating innovative design labs for the public sector: A case for institutional capacity building in the regions of Ukraine." Problems and Perspectives in Management 19, no. 2 (June 21, 2021): 320–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.19(2).2021.26.
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Innovative design labs were created by public authorities of the USA, Australia, Singapore, Finland, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Denmark, China, and other countries to accelerate changes and develop modern public service. This paper provides further insight to establishing external innovation accelerators for strengthening capacity of public institutions. The study aims to define the development opportunities for innovative design labs for the public sector in Ukraine’s regions by the case of the Laboratory of Intellectual Development for Empowering Regions (LIDER). The study was conducted at two stages: (1) exploring the features of innovation implementation in the public sector and outlining the main problems of innovation capacity of public institutions; (2) defining the development opportunities for the LIDER via SWOT-analysis. To substantiate the study results, the correlation analysis between autocratic, bureaucratic, competitive, self-protective, and participative leadership behaviors of CEOs and innovation index based on data from 18 countries was performed, as well as a survey of 195 public servants of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and an interview of 9 experts were conducted. The following key development opportunities for the LIDER were detected: promoting the introduction of incremental innovations in public institutions by using design thinking methodology; assisting the development of pro-innovative culture and participative leadership via individual-centric and system-oriented approaches; developing effective tools for performance management and supporting public institutions in project activity; organizing the competitions for regional innovative projects; assisting in creation of radically human systems in public institutions. AcknowledgmentThe paper was prepared within the framework of the joint Ukrainian-Lithuanian R&amp;D project “Competence Development of Lithuanian and Ukrainian Public Sector Employees Using Design-Thinking Methodology”.The project has received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT, agreement № S-LU-20-5) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (agreement № М/31-2020).
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Madeira, Lígia Mori, and Leonardo Geliski. "O combate a crimes de corrupção pela Justiça Federal da Região Sul do Brasil." Revista de Administração Pública 53, no. 6 (December 2019): 987–1010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220180237.
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Abstract This article studies the operation of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4) in the fight against corruption crimes. Judgments produced by the TRF4 criminal courts between 2003 and 2016 underwent text analysis using the dictionary method, seeking to outline the profile of crimes and defendants. Despite the changes in the web accountability institutions, with the outbreak of major federal police operations, technological uses, new legal devices and a high degree of concentration between the agencies, there is a small proportion of grand corruption crime, involving middle and high-ranking bureaucrats and more sophisticated crimes with greater financial value. Crimes involving contraband and petty corruption take up much of the day to day of the judiciary in the south region of the country, at least in the criminal intermediate courts, where the judge appeals decisions coming from specialized and generalist criminal courts.
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Madeira, Lígia Mori, and Leonardo Geliski. "The Federal Justice act in combating corruption in Southern Brazil." Revista de Administração Pública 53, no. 6 (December 2019): 987–1010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220180237x.
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Abstract This article studies the operation of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4) in the fight against corruption crimes. Judgments produced by the TRF4 criminal courts between 2003 and 2016 underwent text analysis using the dictionary method, seeking to outline the profile of crimes and defendants. Despite the changes in the web accountability institutions, with the outbreak of major federal police operations, technological uses, new legal devices and a high degree of concentration between the agencies, there is a small proportion of grand corruption crime, involving middle and high-ranking bureaucrats and more sophisticated crimes with greater financial value. Crimes involving contraband and petty corruption take up much of the day to day of the judiciary in the south region of the country, at least in the criminal intermediate courts, where the judge appeals decisions coming from specialized and generalist criminal courts.
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Nakrošis, Vitalis. "THE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORMS IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES." Baltic Journal of Political Science 6, no. 6 (July 7, 2017): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/bjps.2017.6.10741.
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In this article we describe the adoption and execution of public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe between 2008 and 2013, as well as examine whether post-communist countries differ from other groups of European countries in terms of the substance of reforms and their implementation process. Instead of following popular Western administrative theoretical frames, we adopt the policy process approach. We focus on the role of policy actors during reform policymaking and implementation at the level of policy subsystems. More specifically, we employ the rational-comprehensive and garbage can perspectives to understand the reform processes in the post-communist region. Our research is based on the statistical analysis of survey data and two case studies of reforms initiated by the 2008-2012 Lithuanian government. The article concludes that countries in Central and Eastern Europe share some common characteristics: they focused on the issues of civil service and public or administrative services, their reform policy was often formulated on a top-down basis, and its execution often lacked adequate capacities. Despite a rational reform façade in these countries, the implementation of governance change appears to be quite erratic, as anticipated in the garbage can perspective. This can have negative consequences on the effectiveness of public policy, continuing to generate public distrust in post-communist state institutions.
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Nakrošis, Vitalis. "THE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORMS IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES." Baltic Journal of Political Science 6, no. 6 (February 12, 2018): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/bjps.2017.6.11583.
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In this article we describe the adoption and execution of public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe between 2008 and 2013, as well as examine whether post-communist countries differ from other groups of European countries in terms of the substance of reforms and their implementation process. Instead of following popular Western administrative theoretical frames, we adopt the policy process approach. We focus on the role of policy actors during reform policymaking and implementation at the level of policy subsystems. More specifically, we employ the rational-comprehensive and garbage can perspectives to understand the reform processes in the post-communist region. Our research is based on the statistical analysis of survey data and two case studies of reforms initiated by the 2008-2012 Lithuanian government. The article concludes that countries in Central and Eastern Europe share some common characteristics: they focused on the issues of civil service and public or administrative services, their reform policy was often formulated on a top-down basis, and its execution often lacked adequate capacities. Despite a rational reform façade in these countries, the implementation of governance change appears to be quite erratic, as anticipated in the garbage can perspective. This can have negative consequences on the effectiveness of public policy, continuing to generate public distrust in post-communist state institutions.
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Quintero, Dora P. "Developments in accounting and treasury functions in public educational institutions in the Municipality of Medellín, Colombia, since 1976." Accounting History 25, no. 2 (May 2020): 219–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373220911113.
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This article examines the official educational institutions in the Municipality of Medellín, focusing on their accounting and budget management and observing their normative development from 1976 to June 2018. The importance of this study lies in clarifying the role that accounting plays in improving the administration of public resources because accounting is adaptable to the educational context. This study concludes that the accounting system in educational establishments has significantly improved as regards administrative and accounting autonomy, thereby impacting the quality and performance of educational services. In summary, a link between accounting and education becomes evident in this historical review. Therefore, the role of state control and monitoring agencies is crucial.
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Reichborn-Kjennerud, Kristin, and Åge Johnsen. "Performance Audits and Supreme Audit Institutions’ Impact on Public Administration: The Case of the Office of the Auditor General in Norway." Administration & Society 50, no. 10 (December 31, 2015): 1422–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399715623315.
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Performance audit is widespread but contested. The “audit society” proposition holds that audits are rituals producing comfort, whereas the “mandatory audit” proposition in public policy presumes that audits have positive impacts. Common to both propositions is the lack of empirical evidence of audit impact. This article analyzes survey data of the auditees’ tendency to make changes as a consequence of Supreme Audit Institutions’ performance audits. Civil servants who had experienced performance audits responded that ministries and agencies tend to make changes, but instrumental, institutional, and political factors have an effect on the institution’s propensity to make changes.
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Remeikiene, Rita, and Ligita Gaspareniene. "Evaluation of the Impact of the EU Structural Support on the Competitiveness of Lithuanian Economics." Central European Journal of Public Policy 10, no. 1 (May 1, 2016): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cejpp-2016-0019.
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Abstract The topic of competitiveness is becoming increasingly significant in the context of modern economics. Considering intensive processes of globalisation alongside with competitive pressure amongst the countries, competitiveness has become a necessary condition for successful economic and social development of any country. Only by creating, enforcing and maintaining international competitiveness of the country, rapid economic growth during the long term is achievable. Amongst the other urgent issues, the European Union (further the EU) public policies are also focused on competitiveness. After the failure to implement the Lisbon strategy and become “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy”, the EU declared its new competitiveness aims in the long-term strategy Europe 2020. Promotion of competitiveness is one of the fundamental aims and priority directions of the EU structural policy. The EU structural support is engaged as one of the public policy measures to promote the competitiveness of the member-states. In this context, it is purposeful to research whether the structural support is used efficiently and whether it actually contributes to the implementation of the defined aims. Under the order of various Lithuanian institutions, numerous studies on the efficiency of the EU structural support have been carried out. Nevertheless, by analysing the impact of the EU structural support, insufficient attention has been paid to the aspect of competitiveness. Considering the fact that Lithuania has entered the third programming period 2014-2020, evaluation of the EU structural investment in the country has become even more topical - for successful implementation of the aims raised for this new period, the analysis of the previous results is relevant. This determined formulation of the research problem: what impact does the EU structural support have on the competitiveness of Lithuanian economics? The empirical research has revealed that the EU structural support has a positive impact on Lithuanian gross domestic product growth, promotes foreign direct investment, research and development expenditure and increases the number of operating entities during 2004-2014 period.
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Pilipavičius, Vytautas, and Inga Vidrevičienė. "Local self government and formation of self governing in rural areas." Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development 36, no. 4 (November 3, 2014): 937–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/mts.2014.088.
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Nowadays, in public administration observed high dichotomy between legal regulation of selfgovernment (de jure) and local self-government practice (de facto) – self management. This makes communication, harmony and compatibility problem between local self-organization and organization of self-management in rural areas. Today this problem is related to the formation of selfgoverning as a systematic practice of local self-government in rural areas. Research aim – an analysis of historical and cultural sites of self-government and self-management and provide guidelines for the formation of self-governing in rural areas. The research design consists of local selfgovernment and the assumptions of self-management analysis, the development of local selfgovernment, decentralization of management and local government, local government and government institutions regulatory authority, public administration, trends and prospects, and local government strategic planning contexts. Studies the use of the scientific literature and analysis of documentary sources, content and structure analysis methods. The article highlighted the historical and cultural assumptions of local self-government, and for self-management and provided guidelines for the formation of self-governing of Lithuanian rural areas.
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Pizzimenti, Eugenio, and Enrico Calossi. "The neglected variable. The coevolution of public administration and political parties in the UK and Italy (1950–2010)." Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 50, no. 1 (August 9, 2019): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2019.19.
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AbstractThe relationships between the State and political parties have often been analysed in dual terms. Yet, as Katz and Mair already noticed in their well-known (and criticized) article on the emergence of the cartel party, a clear separation between parties and public institutions has never been completely achieved, in the evolution of liberal democracies. In contrast, while parties act as agencies of institutionalization, public institutions recognize (de jure or de facto) parties as the legitimate actors of political representation. From this perspective, it is worth considering party change as a process intertwined also with institutional change. To date, however, the analysis of such a relationship has been neglected by political scientists, who have privileged explanations of party change based on other factors, whether at systemic or at a micro level. By avoiding a priori assumptions about causality, our main research question is the following: is it possible to identify patterns of co-evolution between State institutions – more specifically, public administration – and party organizations? Building on a new institutional approach to organization theory, the aim of this article is to investigate to what extent the evolution in the size of party organizations and in the size of public administration has followed similar trajectories. Our study focuses on the United Kingdom and Italy, from 1950 to 2010. Our findings confirm that parties' external face expands when public spending and the number of public employees increase, and vice-versa. The same holds for parties' internal face, at least in the Italian case.
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Parrado, Salvador. "Failed policies but institutional innovation through “layering” and “diffusion” in Spanish central administration." International Journal of Public Sector Management 21, no. 2 (February 29, 2008): 230–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513550810855672.
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PurposeThis paper aims to show that the Spanish central administration, as a representative of the Napoleonic tradition, has undergone considerable managerial changes in non‐autonomous and semi‐autonomous agencies characterised by their direct involvement in service delivery in spite of the failure of macro‐changes and radical reforms of public administration.Design/methodology/approachThis paper provides case studies of “paths” of changes in three organisations.FindingsThrough “layering” and “diffusion” of institutions as social mechanisms included in the historical new institutionalism account for innovation, specific organisations like the tax agency, social security and property registry have become more managerial in a state dominated by public law.Research limitations/implicationsMore in‐depth case studies would make possible generalisation of how small changes can produce similar impacts or results than reform efforts at the macro‐level.Originality/valueThe use of historical neo‐institutionalism and the exam of mechanisms as “layering” and “diffusion” for explaining change is presented.
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Choi, Cathi. "Protection Against Good Intentions: The Catholic Role in the Campaign to Ban Proxy Adoption, 1956–1961." Journal of Policy History 31, no. 2 (April 2019): 242–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030619000046.
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Abstract:The debate over the practice of proxy adoption sheds light on changing notions of proper intercountry adoption practices and standards of family planning as they developed in the mid-twentieth century. The practice of proxy adoption was born out of a loophole in U.S. immigration legislation, initially used by Americans to adopt European orphans after World War II. After the Korean War, the practice was again utilized to bring Korean children in even greater numbers to the United States. Through proxy adoption, adoptive parents bypassed the standard checkpoints of the adoption process as established by U.S. social welfare agencies. Although initially hailed as a humane practice, proxy adoption was ultimately banned in 1961 after a successful antiproxy adoption campaign waged by a coalition of social welfare workers, Catholic leaders, and U.S. senators. The role of Catholic agencies in this debate is essential, yet remains largely unexplored. This article sheds light on this significant and underresearched history of the Catholic institutions involved in the proxy adoption debate.The Catholic agencies, namely the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Catholic Committee for Refugees, stood apart from both the government social welfare establishment and other humanitarian actors. Their actions must instead be understood through the context of their own institutional history of domestic social welfare programs and overseas humanitarian work, dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article analyzes their relationship with the U.S. social welfare establishment, as well as joint advocacy efforts to reform intercountry adoption practices.
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Katzmann, Robert A. "The American Legislative Process as a Signal." Journal of Public Policy 9, no. 3 (July 1989): 287–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x00008473.
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ABSTRACTThe signals of the American legislative process cannot be understood simply by focusing on the formal and technical processes of legislative drafting. Rather, it is important to appreciate the political and institutional dynamics which affect how and to whom signals are sent, and why some signals emerging from the legislative process are clearer than others. Legislative policymaking often does not conform to the textbook ideal of deliberation and clarity. By the way that legislation is drafted, through the use of legislative history and various materials, legislators send signals to agencies, courts, their colleagues and interest groups. How bills are drafted - tight or loose - gives institutions more or less authority to make policy. Accounting for the sometimes absence of clear direction in legislation in the American system, and the consequences of that absence for agencies and courts, raises questions in a comparative context about how the structure of government affects the signals of the legislative process.
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GAVUROVA, Beata, Matus KUBAK, and Martin MIKESKA. "The efficiency of public procurement in the health sector – the platform on sustainable public finances." ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC 1, no. 35 (November 27, 2020): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/amp/2020.35-02.
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At present, public procurement processes and their efficiency represent one of the key determinants of public finance system. Many countries of the European Union work intensively on reforming public procurement processes. The main aim of public procurement is to create an open competition in order to achieve the most efficient use of public funds. The Slovak hospitals, that have been inefficiently managed in the long run, are the weakest segment of the healthcare system. Also, the public hospitals continue to generate substantial losses even if many reforms had been implemented to increase cost efficiency. However, medical debt consolidation did not help the hospitals to set optimal functioning of the economic processes in order to improve their management permanently. The primary aim of the study is to examine an impact of selected determinants on an efficiency of public procurement processes in the healthcare system of the Slovak Republic during the 2014 – 2017. The data were obtained from the registers of the Public Procurement Office of the Slovak Republic. The multinomial logistic regression was used to determine the following findings: in case of zero, or positive savings, the number of offers, year of public procurement, type of public procurement procedure, NUTS level of procurement and participation of a subcontractor in procurement process are significant categorical variables. The study results enable a creation of multi-dimensional analyses and support models in order to make effective public procurement processes in the healthcare system. Similarly, these results enable to create comparative benchmarking analyses, and may lead to a creation of new agencies and institutions.
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Batalla, Eric Vincent C. "Treading the straight and righteous path: curbing corruption in the Philippines." Asian Education and Development Studies 4, no. 1 (January 5, 2015): 51–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aeds-10-2014-0043.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the anti-corruption performance of the Philippine government, particularly under the leadership of President Benigno Aquino III. Design/methodology/approach – The paper evaluates the anti-corruption measures as represented by pertinent laws as well as anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) under the Aquino administration. Findings – The Aquino government has exercised remarkable political will in acting on high-profile cases involving former government officials, including former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. However, the government’s overall anti-corruption performance is hampered by outdated and conflicting laws, lack of compliance with anti-corruption laws and regulations by public officials and employees, poor ACA operational capacities, judicial inefficiency, deficient organizational systems and change-resistant government agencies, and selective and partial enforcement of anti-corruption laws. These problems are characteristic of Philippine political administrations and are arguably rooted in a system long characterized by fragile state institutions, strong oligarchic control, and weak citizenship. Originality/value – The paper is intended to update scholars, policy makers, and anti-corruption practitioners interested in corruption, ACA performance, and political reform in the Philippines. It discusses corruption-related problems of public administration within the purview of political economy. Based on this perspective, it argues that the key to effective control of corruption is a change in the political system’s configuration rather than the mere change in leadership.
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Asamoah, Catherine, Harry Akussah, and Adams Musah. "Recordkeeping and disaster management in public sector institutions in Ghana." Records Management Journal 28, no. 3 (November 19, 2018): 218–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rmj-01-2018-0001.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the disaster management procedures and measures adopted by public institutions in managing their information resources with a view to identifying possible problems and making recommendations for their resolution. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaires, interviews and observation were used to collect data from 65 respondents from 19 ministries and five respondents from the Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD) and the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO). Descriptive statistics and content analysis were used to analyze the data collected for the study. Findings In the 19 ministries surveyed, the findings revealed high levels of unpreparedness to manage disasters concerning public records. The study also revealed the exposure of the ministries to various kinds of risks in their operations, and the lack of coordination between the heads of public sector institutions, NADMO and PRAAD. Also, inadequate budgetary allocation for the records department of the ministries and PRAAD was identified. Research limitations/implications The study concentrated on the headquarters (HQ) of the ministries because they are the administrative headquarters of public sector institutions and they make policies that are complied with by all the Regional and District branches as well as the Departments and Agencies in executing their tasks. The major limitation of the study was the inability of the researcher to cover all the ministries. Practical implications The recommendations made included cooperation among heads of the ministries, PRAAD and NADMO to develop a national information disaster management plan for the effective management of public records and information and a comprehensive program in public institutions to orientate staff on information disaster management. Social implications The study set the tone for public sector institutions and other institutions in the same area of operation to review the processes and procedures with regard to recordkeeping. Also, the study is anticipated to draw the attention of policy-makers (management of the ministries) and regulatory bodies in the field of records and disaster management (PRAAD and NADMO) to review their plans and policies to make provision for information disaster management. Originality/value The study is a research paper and critically looks at the disaster preparedness of public sector institutions in managing their records/information. It also examines whether there are any collaboration and coordination among public sector institutions in Ghana in having disaster preparedness and management plan to safeguard public records/information.
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Addi-Raccah, Audrey, and Noa Friedman. "A liminal approach to parents in leadership positions in schools with students of high socioeconomic background in Israel." Journal of Educational Administration 58, no. 1 (September 26, 2019): 96–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-03-2019-0042.
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Purpose Parents’ collective involvement in their children’s education takes the form of holding leadership positions in schools. Employing the concept of liminality, which is used in anthropological and sociological approaches, the purpose of this paper is to explore the features of parent leadership in schools (PLS). Design/methodology/approach Interviews were conducted with 18 individuals: 11 chairpersons and 7 members of the parent leadership of 11 primary schools in Israel attended by students of high socioeconomic backgrounds. Findings Data analyses disclose PLS as a liminal framework, which constitutes both formal and informal dimensions, whether these be its in-school limited activities or out-of-school actions in introducing change and supporting the institutions. PLS’s functions are restricted by school principals, but simultaneously enhance school principals’ position. Practical implications The study’s findings carry implications for school collaboration with external entities. School principals need to support PLS and keep encouraging entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. There is a need for acknowledging the value of PLS’s contributions whereas policy makers must provide more guidelines and support to parent leaders. Originality/value The study focuses on exploring the position of collective parental involvement in schools. This issue is of significance in a time where parents gain more responsibility over their children’s education and schools support more collaborative relationships with external agencies. The study highlights the benefits of parents in leadership positions for school benefits and for school principals’ legitimacy, from the approach of liminality.
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Petrova, Mariana, and Hristo Hristov. "PROACTIVE PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION ABOUT JUDICIAL CASES AND ACTS OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE." Administrative and Criminal Justice 1, no. 82 (June 21, 2018): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/acj.v1i82.2853.
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The integration of IT and Internet technologies in the work of the judiciary institutions has become a major factor in the changes in the administration of justice. On the one hand, technology has become accessible to law enforcement agencies and has become an effective means of carrying out their work and managing document flow. On the other hand, ICTs have been made accessible to citizens and users of the justice system and to electronic reporting provided by the judicial authorities and other online services. The potential of technology is to provide more and more new or improved services in the field of justice, as well as the ability of citizens to actively use them.The publication of court documents and the provision of data on court cases electronically via the Internet affects a wide range of public relations and rights enshrined in national and international regulations.One of the main elements of the legislation on the access to information is the principle that public institutions must follow a policy aimed at publishing information of general interest without filing an application, i.e. Proactive publishing policy.
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Ward, Kevin D., Danielle M. Varda, Diana Epstein, and Barbara Lane. "Institutional Factors and Processes in Interagency Collaboration: The Case of FEMA Corps." American Review of Public Administration 48, no. 8 (January 1, 2018): 852–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074017745354.
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This article details the development and implementation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Corps program, a federal interagency partnership. While many federal agencies partner through fee-for-service arrangements and contracts, few contemporary examples of interagency program creation and implementation are available. This article develops an interagency collaboration framework by drawing from the collaboration literature, as well as literature on institutions, to examine the development of this unique partnership. This research draws on key informant interviews and content analysis of documentation, including the interagency agreement (IAA), historical records, memos, meeting minutes, and participant observations. Findings suggest that even in formal IAAs, a strong history of informal institutional collaboration may be an important antecedent of forming and implementing collaborative arrangements. Similarly, the presence of a champion may play an important role in cultivating and developing both informal and formal institutions that create an opportunity to collaborate. Finally, the rules-in-use and the rules-in-form may vary at different levels of management. As the federal government increasingly employs interagency partnerships, this article provides lessons for developing relationships, identifying and understanding roles, crossing organizational boundaries, and merging both agency cultures and administrative processes.
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Fobih, Nick. "NPM Reforms in Ghana’s Public Sector Management & Administration: Changing Trends in MDAs & MMDAs Functions." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 10, no. 4 (November 19, 2020): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v10i4.17955.
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The purpose of the study is to examine the new public management (NPM) reforms in Ghana’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies, and at the local government level in terms of key changes implemented and its successes. The study also examines the challenges that have been encountered in the implementation process and recommendations to address the weaknesses in the system. The methodology used is based on the qualitative approach and the descriptive method. The findings in the study show that regardless of the in-roads made since the introduction of the NPM reforms, a number of challenges such as lack of expertise, lack of political will, inadequate resources among others, continue to affect the performance of Ghana’s civil service, which in turn, impact the delivery of public services. The study recommends that NPM reforms must seek to increase levels of accountability because monitoring the performance of key institutions will go a long way to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the public service. The significance of the study is that it provides key insights into important issues in Ghana’s NPM reforms, which can serve as useful tools for decision makers in moving the reforms towards accomplishing its goals more successfully. The outlined challenges and recommendations will inform the government, key policy makers and local government officials to enable them address the challenges affecting the effective implementation of NPM reforms. This study further contributes toward academic discussions relating to the impact of NPM reforms in Ghana and Africa in general.
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Solinas-Saunders, Monica. "The U.S. Federal Response to COVID-19 During the First 3 Months of the Outbreak: Was an Evidence-Based Approach an Option?" American Review of Public Administration 50, no. 6-7 (July 16, 2020): 713–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074020942408.
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This essay is a commentary on the U.S. Federal government response to the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The focus is on the response of the Trump Administration during the first 3 months of the outbreak, specifically the period between January 20, 2020, and May 15, 2020. The following question is addressed: To what extent was the strategy implemented by the U.S. federal government guided by evidence-based decisions? While nobody was a COVID-19 expert at the beginning of the outbreak, this being a novel virus, the essay argues that the U.S. federal government failed to use evidence from previous pandemics and natural disasters and from the experience of other countries. In addition, the essay warns of the current lack of consistency in following data generated by U.S. agencies and institutions.
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Anikin, Valery M., Boris N. Poizner, and Eduard A. Sosnin. "The Contract Education as a Goal-oriented System of Activity." Higher Education in Russia 28, no. 3 (March 8, 2019): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2019-28-3-35-49.
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The aim of the work is an application of the theory of Goal-oriented System of Activity to analysis and organization of effective contract targeted training at higher education institutions. The organization of targeted training of specialists is considered as one of the components of public administration to address staff problems in various regions and sectors of the economy in the context of rapidly changing demands of society, to implement promising youth policy and mitigate demographic problems. An algorithmic chain of meaningful actions is con structed on the basis of the methodology of the Goal-oriented System of Activity, which takes into account the real state of human, intellectual, material and economic resources and enables to minimize existing contradictions and, accordingly, ensure the establishment of partnerships between all interested participants in the process of targeted training (government agencies, employers, higher education institutions and students). As an example, four stages of contract teacher training have been considered.
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Pavlichenko, E. V., O. Y. Biloshenko, and Y. S. Chabanenko. "Legislative principles of the mechanism of public participation in the implementation of public administration in Ukraine." Uzhhorod National University Herald. Series: Law, no. 64 (August 14, 2021): 250–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24144/2307-3322.2021.64.46.
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The article shows the study of public participation in the implementation of public administration. It is estab-lished that the public should act as a socially active part of society, which participates in socio-political life of the country on a voluntary basis. It is determined that the public should be characterized by: the need for communica-tion; focus on collective activity; priority of public interests over individual ones; active expression of their social position. The article proved that the establishment of a constructive dialogue between the public and state structures helps the public to inform state authorities about urgent problems of development of various spheres of public life. It is es-tablished that due to cooperation, partnership with the public, public authorities and administrations become better aware of various social problems. Close cooperation of public administration bodies with public structures allows the population to understand better the logic of management decisions and state policy in a given area, provides its trust and support if necessary. Effective forms of interaction between public authorities and the public and the specifics of the mechanism of public participation in public administration are substantiated and its characteristic features are determined. The article proposes the introduction of a mechanism for public participation in public administration. It is noted that the mechanism of public participation in public administration should be understood as a system of legal and public administration mechanisms that create legitimate conditions and means of real participation of socially active citizens in public administration, in particular, through their involvement in public administration. All mechanisms must be interconnected. The expediency of forming normative-legal mechanisms of public participation in public administration in Ukraine, which should be represented by a hierarchical system of normative-legal acts and consolidate the right of citizens to participate in the management of public affairs, has been proved; to determine the legal status of civil society institutions, in particular, in terms of their legal personality in relation to participation in public administration; to determine the procedural mechanisms of interaction between civil society and the rule of law and the influence of the public on public administration. It is noted that the formation of a civil society, which insufficient level of development in today’s Ukraine hin-ders the dynamics of democratic change, will contribute to the achievement of a corresponding standard of living like in European countries. It is determined that without a developed civil society it is impossible to improve public administration, which requires real public participation in the discussion and management decisions. It is noted that high-quality and effective interaction of public authorities with civil society should be formed under the condition of three basic principles: creation of a state agency, institution, department and division in the system of state power, which will be directly responsible for cooperation with the public; development and adoption of a state program to promote the development of interaction between government agencies and structures with civil society; formation of written agreements between public authorities and non-governmental organizations on their joint activities.
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Rautakivi, Tuomo. "Government Intelligence, Efficacy and Adaptability in Changing Environments." Acta Europeana Systemica 3 (July 14, 2020): 115–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.14428/aes.v3i1.57503.
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Societies change through external pressures from a changing environment, or immanently from the internal cultural dynamic that naturally occurs within social agencies. As a result these political, security, social, economic and other changes are needed that present challenges to public administration. Consequently, public administration must adapt and identify the development of new policies and functions. Of critical importance to the state are the preeminent public institutions that are part of the development process. The outcomes are the result of both public policy and government efficacy. Organizational adaptability involves the anticipation of the future, where adaptation is an internal process that is prompted by environmental change and self-production. The capacity of an agency to adapt is affected by efficacy which conditions it to be effective and efficient. Efficacy is therefore a precondition for successful adaptability and the ability to adapt is a consequence of efficacy. Inefficacy, through its bounding effect on an agency’s intelligences, sets limits to its capability of achieving high levels of performance in organizations. Efficacy can be examined in terms of a cybernetic model of a cognitive social agency, allowing distinctions to be made between public policy objectives and the resulting outputs, this thus enabling proposed measurement of efficacy.
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Annesley, Claire. "Gender, Politics and Policy Change: The Case of Welfare Reform Under New Labour." Government and Opposition 45, no. 1 (2010): 50–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2009.01304.x.
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AbstractPolitics and gender scholarship is increasingly seeking to understand the relationship between the presence of women in politics and gendered policy outcomes – the substantive representation of women (SRW). Yet its focus remains squarely on the activities of ‘critical actors’ in parliaments and women's policy agencies and on ‘feminist’ rather than ‘mainstream’ policy areas. In contrast, this article investigates the impact of feminist actors in a range of institutional settings on recent processes of welfare reform in the UK. It finds that the gendered welfare reform introduced by New Labour was initiated and pushed through by a coalition of committed feminist actors across a range of institutions. Crucially, the reforms relied on the existence of ‘strategic actors’ and ‘gate openers’, defined as feminist actors in positions of significant institutional power. It makes a contribution to the actor-centred SRW scholarship, develops an institutionalist approach to this research and identifies the need for a political economy perspective to understanding how women can shape policy outcomes.
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Nurunnabi, Mohammad. "Accounting for Accountability: A Critical Reflection on the Private Higher Education in Bangladesh." Administration & Society 50, no. 3 (May 27, 2015): 429–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399715587523.
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The World Bank has pioneered the concept of “private” in developing countries with the aim of creating economic and social sustainability since the 1990s. This study examines private universities by focusing on the accountability framework in Bangladesh. Using a multi-method approach (a survey of 1,046 students from all 52 universities in the country and policy documents from 1992-2014), the study reveals that weak macro accountability (specifically, a vague regulatory framework, lack of enforcement, government leniency, and corruption) is a contributing factor in the unsuccessful drive for higher growth of private higher education institutions (HEIs). The study also raises a question on the success of the Washington Consensus in a developing country. The findings demonstrate that urgent attention is required from the Bangladesh government and donor agencies (The World Bank, the UNESCO, and the International Monetary Fund [IMF]).
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Pokharel, K., R. Karki, H. R. Ojha, P. Gentle, D. Acharya, M. Banjade, and D. Paudel. "State-community relations and deliberative politics within federal forest governance in Nepal." International Forestry Review 22, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 370–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1505/146554820830405609.
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Despite widespread participatory governance reforms in the forest sector in Nepal, how forest administration can be re-organised at multiple levels to enable community based forest management remains unexplored. Forest governance reforms in Nepal have involved numerous forms of collaboration and contestation between the state agencies and community-based forest stakeholders in the rapidly evolving federalist political context. Analysing an empirical case of community forestry in Nepal, this paper shows how state agencies and communities interact in the process of controlling and managing forest resources. It is argued in the paper that instituting deliberative processes in multi-level governance structure is a key to the functioning of a well-devolved forest governance. With the nation already adopting a new federal system of governance, it is crucial to clearly define the authorities of the federal, provincial and local level administrations. We also argue that the need for creating institutions and spaces for deliberative engagement between forest dependent community groups and the public administration is at an all-time high for achieving accountability and more effective forest governance. The future of Nepal's forestry and people living around forest resources depend to a large extent on how powers are shared by different levels of governments, and how these governments interact with one another, and with people and civil societies in their respective domains of governance.
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Asamoah, Kwame, and Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-Mensah. "Fruitlessness of Anti-Corruption Agencies: Lessons from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in Ghana." Journal of Asian and African Studies 53, no. 7 (March 27, 2018): 987–1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909618762575.
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Political corruption has become one of the most topical issues in the political discourse in Ghana. This stems from the fact that corruption has become so endemic and systemic in Ghanaian polity with its negative effects on the economy. Indeed, political corruption negatively affects job creation, investment potentials, infrastructural development and generally the standard of living of the people. It is within this context that anti-corruption institutions have been established in Ghana to address the menace of corruption. The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is one of such institutions established under the 1992 Republican Constitution of Ghana tasked with the responsibility of addressing the problem of corruption in Ghanaian public administration system. This paper examines the extent to which the Commission has achieved this constitutional mandate of addressing the problem of corruption. The study finds that some drawbacks which inhibit the potency of CHRAJ in addressing the problem of corruption include lack of political will by the governing elite to support the institution, eroding confidence of the Commission, the trend of appointing the Head of the Commission in an acting capacity, constitutional weaknesses, poor capacity building support and low motivation. The paper therefore offers pragmatic policy suggestions to address the inherent deficiencies of the Commission with the objective of making it more functional.
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Ndiaye, Gnilane, Cheng BO, V. V. Azenga, and Juniter Kwamboka. "The Impact of Internal Control on the Profitability of Microfinance Institutions in Senegal." International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478) 8, no. 2 (March 27, 2019): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v8i2.199.
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The purpose of this study is "Designing an excellent service model on Population and Civil Registration Service in the city of Metro ". The conclusions obtained from this study are (1) Problems in excellent service at Population and Civil Registration Service in the city of Metro based on their nature are divided into two types, which is uncontrolled (missed) and which is controlled (difficult). Uncontrolled problems are problems that should not need to exist, but they appear as an unavoidable problem whereas problems that are controlled are problems whose level of difficulty can be controlled. (2). The focus of service in population administration services in an institutional model emphasizes speed and convenience and does not pay attention to the simplicity of requirements and so to improve its quality it is necessary to pay attention to safety factors. (3) There are still many brokers in the services of the city of Metro Population and Civil Registration Service due to lack of supervision from the relevant agencies, not yet clear the application of Procedure Service Standards as well as the lack of socialization to the public about the service rates and service procedures.
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Brown, Rob. "The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state." Public Policy and Administration 35, no. 4 (November 27, 2018): 384–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076718811420.
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Public sector modernization has focused on achieving greater efficiency within the institutions and agencies of the state. In comparison, the relationship between citizen and state as a basis for service improvement has received less attention. This paper describes a study that helps to redress this balance by exploring the role that trust can play as a mechanism of accountability of the state to the citizen and, as a consequence, improving their mutual cooperation. This poses a challenge for the state – to be trusted by the citizen requires being trustworthy in the eyes of the citizen. Establishing the citizen's view of the characteristics of the trustworthy state, and how this differs from the norm of trust currently in use within the state, is the subject of the research. The question is addressed through a process of dialogic action research with users and frontline staff of two public services (a housing benefit service and a primary health care general practice). The output of the study is a relational diagnostic, applicable across the public sector, derived from a synthesis of the tests applied by the citizen as they assess the trustworthiness of a public service.
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Beaty, LeAnn. "Ethics in the Hollow State: Distinguishing between Nonprofit and For-Profit Agents of Prisoner Reentry." Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 68–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.20899/jpna.7.1.68-88.
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New public management, a reform movement that shifted the provision of public goods and services towards private institutions, is firmly entrenched in the United States. The Hollow State, a metaphor often used synonymously with contracting out, reflects the growing trend of using non-governmental networks–often nonprofits but also for-profit organizations–to deliver social services to vulnerable groups. This article, which draws from the author’s dissertation, examines differences in nonprofit and for-profit prisoner reentry agencies. The findings suggest that nonprofit/for-profit differences are eroding as the nonprofit sector becomes more competitive with the private sector for government contracts.
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Fernandes, Maria Nilvane, Ricardo Peres da Costa, Luanna Marley de Oliveira e Silva, and Olegna de Souza Guedes. "COMBATING COVID-19 IN THE PENITENTIARY AND SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: impossibilities in the Penal State?" Revista Observatório 6, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): a7en. http://dx.doi.org/10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n2a7en.
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The article presents conjunctural aspects that show the growth of restrictive freedom policies in the framework of a Penal State and the challenges that are presented in the political agenda regarding the necessary adoption of emerging measures to mitigate contagion situations by COVID-19 in the prison system and socio-educational. It presents data on the large percentage of incarceration in Brazil, as well as on the contagious infectious diseases that are evident in the prison population and that reveal the exposure of this population to risks of contagion in pandemic situations. It also exposes data that reveal public administration strategies adopted to mitigate the effects of the recent pandemic on this population, highlighting the particularity of those adopted by different states in the country, such as Amazonas. In its conclusion, it problematizes aspects of the criminal policy developed at the intersections of institutions and agencies such as the police, the courts, the prisons, and agencies managers; highlighting that they operate within the dimensions of race, class, and gender. From these aspects, it emphasizes the importance of registering important intervention proposals that bring mitigating impacts on the daily life of prisons in Brazil.
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Gibbs, David, and Andrew E. G. Jonas. "Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 19, no. 2 (April 2001): 269–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c9908j.
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The establishment of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the English regions will bring about an important change in UK regional governance. A key area of contention and struggle is likely to occur over the contribution of the RDAs to sustainable development. Although the pursuit of sustainable development is a stated goal of the RDAs, in this paper we argue that this goal is likely to be compromised by tensions and contradictions emerging in the evolving new governance landscape of England. In terms of promoting sustainable-development policy, the regional scale of the UK state is becoming materially and discursively significant, and a particular focus of struggles around economic and environmental issues. These struggles strategically intersect with wider processes of reregulation and rescaling in the UK state. We not only consider the practical policy implications of integrating the economy and environment at the regional scale, but also analyse emerging tensions in regional governance in the light of processes of social reregulation and rescaling within the UK state. We argue that theoretical approaches to the latter need to incorporate the uneven process of rescaling and the contingent nature of regional state forms and institutions.
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Virkar, Shefali. "Trolls Just Want To Have Fun." International Journal of E-Politics 5, no. 4 (October 2014): 21–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2014100102.
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Over the last two decades, public confidence and trust in Government has declined visibly in several Western liberal democracies owing to a distinct lack of opportunities for citizen participation in political processes; and has instead given way instead to disillusionment with current political institutions, actors, and practices. The rise of the Internet as a global communications medium and the advent of digital platforms has opened up huge opportunities and raised new challenges for public institutions and agencies, with digital technology creating new forms of community; empowering citizens and reforming existing power structures in a way that has rendered obsolete or inappropriate many of the tools and processes of traditional democratic politics. Through an analysis of the No. 10 Downing Street ePetitions Initiative based in the United Kingdom, this article seeks to engage with issues related to the innovative use of network technology by Government to involve citizens in policy processes within existing democratic frameworks in order to improve administration, to reform democratic processes, and to renew citizen trust in institutions of governance. In particular, the work seeks to examine whether the application of the new Information and Communication Technologies to participatory democracy in the Government 2.0 era would eventually lead to radical transformations in government functioning, policymaking, and the body politic, or merely to modest, unspectacular political reform and to the emergence of technology-based, obsessive-compulsive pathologies and Internet-based trolling behaviours amongst individuals in society.
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Tajulfitri, Sang Saniaka. "Statistik dan Peranannya Dalam Pembangunan Nasional." Cendekia Niaga 3, no. 1 (October 1, 2019): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.52391/jcn.v3i1.459.
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Statistics have an important role in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the implementation of various activities in all aspects of community, national and state life in national development. The increasing need and variety of information that develops along with the advancement of national life, science and technology, and the increasing demand for data by government agencies both at the center and in the regions, private institutions, and the public make statistics as indispensable information. Therefore, the Central Bureau of Statistics, which is the organizer of basic statistics, must implement national policies in the field of statistics by paying attention to the aspirations, needs, and participation of statistical users so that the statistical results are expected to be utilized to the benefit of the government and society. Law No. 16 of 1997 concerning Statistics, Government Regulation Number 51 of 1999 concerning Statistic Administration and Presidential Regulation No. 51 of 1999 concerning BPS)
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Wolf-Fordham, Susan. "Integrating Government Silos: Local Emergency Management and Public Health Department Collaboration for Emergency Planning and Response." American Review of Public Administration 50, no. 6-7 (July 24, 2020): 560–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074020943706.
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The United States arguably faces the most serious disaster it has faced since World War II: the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic itself has created further cascading economic, financial, and social crises. To date, approximately 114,000 Americans have died and approximately 2,000,000 (as of this writing) have become infected. American emergency planning and response, including for pandemics, begins at the local (city, town, and county) level, close to the individuals and communities most impacted. During crises like COVID-19, natural and other disasters, best practices include “whole of government” and “whole community” approaches, involving all parts of the government, community organizations, institutions, and businesses, with representation from diverse individual community stakeholders. Local emergency management and public health agencies are at the heart of emergency planning and response and thus warrant further examination. While collaboration between the two is recognized as a best practice, in reality there appear to be silos and gaps. This Commentary describes the American emergency planning system and the roles of local emergency management and public health departments. Closer examination illuminates similarities and differences in practitioner demographics, professional competencies, organizational goals, and culture. The Commentary reviews the limited research and observations of collaboration efforts and suggests areas for integrating the two practice areas in future research, education, professional training, and practice. Breaking down the silos will strengthen local emergency and public health preparedness planning and response, ultimately leading to stronger community health, well-being, resilience, and more efficient local administration.