Public management, politics, and the policy process in the public affairs curriculum

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 624-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Straussman
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Public

The Educational Quality of the Doctoral Programs in Public Affairs

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Tiangeng Lu ◽  
Göktuğ Morçöl
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Disciplines

Public affairs scholars have been concerned about the quality of education in their field for some decades. To assess the program quality, the authors analyzed the National Research Council's most recent data. In the comparative analyses between the public affairs programs and the programs in other social science disciplines, they found that public affairs doctoral programs were behind their peer fields on most of the input-based metrics (students fully funded in their first year of education, median quantitative GRE scores, and percentage of international students in programs) but ahead of them in student-faculty ratios. The results of the outcome-based metrics were mixed. Public affairs students graduated earlier on average, but smaller percentages of them had plans for employment in academic positions. Also, the faculty productivity was lower in public affairs programs compared to the other social science disciplines. Among the subfields of public affairs, public management and public policy had more favorable input- and outcome-based results compared to public administration.

A Tribute to H. George Fredrickson

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Melvin J Dubnick ◽  
Mary E Guy ◽  
Donald F Kettl ◽  
Pan Suk Kim ◽  
Rosemary O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Research Association ◽  
The Public ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
Eastern Washington ◽  
The University

Abstract During his 50-year career, H. George Frederickson contributed on multiple fronts: to better government, to a more thoughtful and rigorous public administration field, to better scholarship, to a network of scholars, and to collaborative interaction among practitioners and scholars. He was the founding Editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory as well as the Journal of Public Administration Education. He was one of the founders of the Public Management Research Association (PMRA) and was instrumental in establishing the world headquarters of PMRA at the University of Kansas School of Public Affairs, where he was the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor. He was President of Eastern Washington University. A gifted writer and thinker who excelled in both breadth and depth, George published important articles and books, and won many awards for his scholarship. Most importantly, he was a catalyst for establishing social equity as the “third pillar” of public administration. In this article, five public administration scholars pay tribute to H. George Frederickson’s most influential scholarly works, with an emphasis on social equity and accountability. George’s impact outside of the United States, especially in South Korea, also is highlighted.

scholarly journals Optimal Administrative Response to Selfish Behaviors in Urban Public Management: The Role of Zero-Determinant Strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ai Zhong Shen ◽  
Xiang Gao ◽  
Xiao Ping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
City Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Efficiency ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Finite Set ◽  
Code Violations

City management involves complex interactions between the manager (administrator), who supervises urban appearance and environmental sanitation, and the managed (speculator), who works in urban areas and is subject to management ordinances. This article provides an iterated game framework for analyzing the extent to which zero-determinant strategies can be used to optimize the intensity decision of supervisory action against municipal code violations, thus enhancing administrative efficiency. To account for characteristics of the public affairs context, it is assumed that each player in our model chooses from a finite set of discrete and random courses of game strategy. As our model constitutes a major extension to the seminal Press and Dyson (2012) model, we resort to the theory of stochastic process to prove the existence of multiple zero-determinant strategies when players can adopt many strategies in the iterated game. Various numerical examples are presented to validate such strategies’ optimality. Our finding is that, given the probability of adopting a particular strategy, an urban administrator can unilaterally (i) set the speculators’ expected payoff to a level equaling to the opportunity cost of abiding by the law and (ii) let their own expected surplus payoff exceed the speculators. Finally, important policy implications can be derived based on these analyses and conclusions.

scholarly journals Lla evaluación de los gerentes públicos frente a la opinión pública

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Anabelle Castillo López
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

A nivel mundial, la crítica al sector público -que tiene mucho de verdad-, está alcanzando niveles de tal magnitud que ha llevado a los ciudadanos a una enorme pérdida de confianza en dicho sector, tanto así que han sido fácilmente convencidos de que los asuntos públicos deben y pueden resolverse fuera de la institucionalidad de dicho sector. Dichas críticas han conducido también a académicos a proponer cambios en la organización y funcionamiento del sector público. El presente trabajo parte del hecho de que toda esa crítica debe ser conducida a la luz de criterios objetivos, del conocimiento profundo sobre el funcionamiento propio de este sector y tomando en cuenta las características que lo distinguen del sector privado. Se parte aquí de la premisa de que el sector público tiene una serie de complejidades que lo hacen diferente al sector privado y que no se pueden resolver fácilmente, puesto que la cobertura de su funcionamiento requiere llegar a todos los ciudadanos de un país con productos y servicios de alta dificultad, lo que lo obliga a diseñar y poner en funcionamiento sistemas administrativos muy complejos para la prestación de los servicios; siendo ello diferente al sector privado, que tiene mercados cautivos, para productos muy bien delimitados. Desde esta perspectiva, tampoco es suficiente con trasladar la producción de bienes y servicios al sector privado, puesto que estaríamos trasladando todas esas complejidades a ese sector, con lo cual caeríamos en la misma situación, solo que en un sector diferente. Por tal razón, este análisis trata de aportar sobre cuáles son esas características propias del sector público que debemos tomar en cuenta a la hora de evaluarlo y sobre cuáles son parámetros que sí podríamos utilizar para llevar a cabo una evaluación objetiva de las actuaciones del sector público. ABSTRACTPublic sector mal-functioning has long been criticized and, as a result, great disappointment and a loss of confidence have grown among citizens who are now convinced that public activities should be transferred into the private sector. Because of that, academics all over have dedicated time to study this phenomenon and suggested new academic approaches, many of which are oriented to the adoption of alternative methods to manage public organizations as private enterprises or to definitively transfer public activities to private sectors. Therefore, this work tries to point out that, in order to give appropriate judgments or assessments about the public sector, it is necessary to clarify certain complexities that characterize it. These clarifications are important because misjudgments are usually expressed by different evaluators –journalists, auditors, etc. – through the media. That ends up in misunderstandings and a lack of support to public affairs. Clarifications are also necessary not only because people deserve unbiased assessments of the public sector, but also because, probably for them, it is not easy to recognize what is good and what is wrong with the public sector. Moreover, this work shows that there are no easy ways to go around many public affairs because, even though some activities can be transferred to the private sector, not all of them can, and, at the end, due to specific complexities, we will be simply transferring those complexities from one sector to another keeping the problems intact.  It is recognizable that, in the public sector, things can be improved, but expectations over performance should be in accordance with reality. Finally, this study shows some parameters to positively measure public activities in order to monitor and contribute to better governance. KEYWORDS:  PUBLIC MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR, EVALUATION, PUBLIC OPINION, EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS.

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Proses Kebijakan Daerah

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-177
Author(s):  
Abdullah Manshur
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Problem Situation ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Making Process

Public policy is a decision to deal with a particular problem situation, that identifies the objectives, principles, ways, and means to achieve them. The ability and understanding of policy makers in the policy-making process is very important for the realization of public policy of rapid, accurate and adequate. The product to suit the needs of the public policy, public participation in the policy process is needed in the policy cycle, from policy formulation to policy evaluation. This paper attempts to review the importance of community participation and other forms of public participation in the policy process, in particular, policy areas.

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