Linking Theory With Practice: Examining the Case of Servant Leadership and Community Policing

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian N Williams
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Contemporary Practice

Scholars and practicioners of public administration have been skeptical of new theories that seem long on rhetoric but short on practical application.  This essay examines coupling the theory of servant leadership with the contemporary practice of community policing.  Its purpose is to reveal points of linkage, highlight places of conflict and dissension, and illuminate the praxis dilemma that often accompanies the convergence of ideas with the professional practice of public administration.

Servant Leaders in Public Service: Christian Spirituality in Practice

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Willa Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Servant Leaders ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
American Society

Relying on a survey of members of the American Society for Public Administration, servant leadership is examined through the lens of Christian spirituality.  Findings indicate that citizens can have confidence in the dedication and committment of public servants.

THE TRANSITION FROM LOGICAL POSITIVISM TO PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: POLITICAL ASPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
A.A. KOVALEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Logical Positivism ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this study is to study the research potential of the phenomenological approach in the social sciences, which emerged in the first half of the XX century as a critique of the dominant method of logical positivism at that time. The following scientific approaches and methods were used in the article: the method of analysis, description and comparison, as well as the phenomenological approach. The author has made an attempt to prove the significance of phenomenology in the social sciences by means of comparison as a way not only to describe facts, but also to explain motives and unobservable meanings. According to the results of the conducted research, the author comes to the conclusion that the solution of urgent problems of society through the practical application of the acquired knowledge about society is possible only if the phenomenological method is actively applied in such a scientific and practical discipline as public administration. This will help to overcome the bureaucratization of the civil service, the isolation of the state administrative apparatus from real social problems, as well as to involve the population itself in the process of public administration, establishing feedback.

scholarly journals Hospice Philosophy in Practice—Toward an Authentic Death

2019 ◽  
pp. 003022281985285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibeke Graven ◽  
Helle Timm
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
Institutional Order

This article examines how hospice philosophy works in contemporary Danish hospice practice. The still sparse literature on Danish hospices indicates that hospice philosophy is influencing professional practice. In international palliative care literature, hospice philosophy is challenged for being overly normative in its ideal of the good death or on the other hand as threatened by the medical model. Drawing on the idea of hospice philosophy as providing meaning for everyday practice, this article explores how it is incorporated within the institutional order of contemporary Danish hospices. An ethnographic study was informed by participant observation and 49 interviews with professionals, patients, and families at three hospices in Denmark. The findings contribute to further understanding of the complexity of maintaining hospice philosophy in contemporary practice. Hospice practice works in an interpretive way with hospice philosophy to offer a “lived” philosophy and a means to an authentic death.

Of rhizomes and pointillism: David john farmerʼs influence, method and art in the field

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Richard Huff ◽  
Cynthia Cors ◽  
Jinzhou Song ◽  
Yali Pang
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
The Public

The work of David John Farmer has been recognized as critical to the Public Policy and Administration canon. Its impact has been far-reaching both geographically because of its international application and theoretically because of the vast array of public administration challenges it can help resolve. This paper uses the concepts of rhizomatic thinking and reflexive interpretation to describe Farmerʼs work. And because a critical piece of Farmerʼs work is a bridging of the gap between theory and practice, it formally introduces Farmerʼs research approach as Farmerʼs Method. This article is intended to serve as a useful tool for students, practitioners, and theorists in understanding the vast contributions of David John Farmer and the practical application of his work.

Aspects of Legal Regulation and Implementation of Public Administration Students' Internships in Lithuania

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Jolanta Juralevičienė ◽  
Jolanta Palidauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Knowledge In Practice ◽  
Administration Students

Article concentrates on students' internships, which provide them with a possibility to apply theoretical knowledge in practice. The purpose of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the legal aspects of internship organized for Public Administration (PA) programme students and their practical application in Lithuania. The analysis of internship regulations in 5 universities, having PA Bachelor's programme, allows distinguishing a number of similarities and differ-rences. The analysis of legal acts, universities' internal regulations and students' internship regulations of several Lithuanian study programmes in Public Administration indicates the lack of unified students' internship system. The authors provide several ideas how this topic can be elaborated in the future.http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.10.1.231

Problems of the RA economic development in the context of the concept “Growth Loads and Centers”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gohar Ghambaryan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Regional Economic Policy ◽  
The Republic

The monograph touches upon the theoretical substantiations of economic development, regional economic policy and the interpretation of generalizations of historical experience, as well as the clarification of the possibilities of their practical application in the process of regional development of the Republic of Armenia. The issues of the RA economic development are discussed in the work, solutions are proposed. The monograph is addressed to the public administration workers, students of the departments of socio-economic geography and economics, specialists who make researches related to the economic development issues of the Republic of Armenia, as well as wide range of readers. (in Armenian)

scholarly journals Postawy przedsiębiorcze władz samorządu lokalnego na przykładzie Gdańska i Gdyni

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Barbara Pytko
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
International Business ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Iso 9001 ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Business Services ◽  
High Level ◽  
Marketing Methods ◽  
Local Leaders

Forming of enterprising attitudes in public administration in Poland has accelerated the functioning of ISO 9001 quality management system in administration. The improvement of theseprinciples as well as the application of marketing methods and cities promotion has increasedthe quality of life considerably. Enterprising attitudes of authorities are evident not only in bigcities such as Gdańsk or Gdynia but in local communities too.The local leaders support entrepreneurships by for instance: the Science Technological Parks,the Business Services Centers and International Business Forums.The high level of engagement of all groups of Gdañsk and Gdynia civil workers and perma-nently growing awareness of better usage of resources in public interest, number of initiativesin the practical application increases year by year.

scholarly journals Ensuring the Protection of Whistleblowers in Public Administration: The Experience of Georgia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Shalva (Lasha) Gogidze
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Modern System ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Corrupt Behavior

This article reviews the role of the institute of whistleblowers in modern system of public administration and its connections to fighting corruption and detecting violations of legislative and ethical norms in public and private sectors. In this context, the article discusses the experience of Georgia, post-Soviet country that is in democratic transition with nascent norms and mechanisms for whistleblower protection. Specifically, the article analyzes Georgia’s legislative norms and their practical application by bringing specific examples from within the country and abroad. This is complemented by the analysis of international norms and mechanisms the adoption of which would improve the status quo in the field and encourage more people in the Georgian state and civil service and beyond to raise their voices against injustices and unlawful and corrupt behavior. The article ends with the conclusion and a list of recommendations tailored to the Georgian context.

scholarly journals ARCHITECTONICS OF BUDGET MECHANISM OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoryana LOBODINA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. The need to neutralize the threats to Ukraine's national security requires review of the priorities of public administration. Given the leading role of the budget as the imperative dominant of the system of state regulation of socio-economic development, the use of which is linked to the practical application of the budget mechanism of the socio-economic development of the state, the feasibility of modernizing the said mechanism is beyond doubt. The above circumstances determine the indisputable relevance of the study of the architecture of the budget mechanism and the search for ways to improve its structure, the integration of financial methods, forms, tools and instruments. Purposes. The purpose of the article is to formulate its own scientific approach to the structuring of the budget mechanism of the socio-economic development of the state, the characteristics of its elements and the relationship between them. Results.The result of the study proved that the optimal combination of elements of the budget mechanism allows the state to effectively influence the socio-economic processes, ensuring the functioning and development of the national economy, affordable and quality public services to the population, solving social problems and others. So in terms of transformation of budgetary relations and orientation of public finance to economic growth and improving public welfare scientific approaches to structuring the budget mechanism require revisionand clarification. Conclusion. Taking into account the directions of budget resources movement, the budget mechanism of the socio-economic development of the state proposes to distinguish two main subsystems: the mechanism of budget funds formation and the mechanism of using budget funds. In each of the subsystems, financial methods, forms, tools, levers are distinguished and characterized in the context of providing the architectural budget mechanism.

scholarly journals Impediments to public consultations in the Polish local self-government

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Marcin Pomaranski
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
The Political ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Consultations

The aim of this paper is a comparative analysis of legislative solutions and practical application of the public consultations in the Polish local government after 1989. The legal changes that occurred during this period have guaranteed Polish citizens the tool to direct exercising the political power. Unfortunately, the lack of legislative precision in the use of mechanisms of civic participation in Poland is characteristic of public consultation. Despite the fact that this solution has been used by public administration since the political-system transformation and the passing of the Act on Gmina Self-Government of 1990, and that in 1997 the consultations as a form of the exercise of power by the citizens were also established in the Constitution, for the first two decades there was a fairly great freedom of interpretation in holding them, which the local self-government authorities widely used. Positive changes in the practice of using the mechanisms of public consultation in Poland, including the formulation of the widely accepted set of guidelines and practical advice concerning the manner of implementing these mechanisms, began to take place only in the last four to five years. Main thesis of the paper is the opinion that public consultations in the example of the Polish self-government despite nearly three decades of legislative and political experiences are still not an effective tool of direct democracy, but only a bureaucratic facade.

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