scholarly journals Public Administration and the Public Interest.

1936 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1023
Author(s):  
Albert Lepawsky ◽  
E. Pendleton Herring
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The Public

Case Study #4: Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Ken Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Gene Roddenberry ◽  
Common Goals

Star Trek began as a 1960s television series led by a swashbuckling starship Captain, an intellectual off-world first officer, and a multicultural, heart-of-gold crew. In the third of a century since its appearance on our home screens, the series Gene Roddenberry created has become a world-wide phenomenon.Star Trek is also a rich treasure trove of administrative literature: The setting — usually a starship, sometimes a planetary government organization. The characters are clearly delineated, colorful, share common goals, distinguish between their personal and professional roles and concerns, and serve well as archetypes for distinct organizational personalities. And the missions are clear, benevolent, in the public interest, and frequently controversial.As you watch an episode of one of the four Star Trek series, how many of these facets can you observe?That’s public administration, all right, but in a very different wrapper

Public Administration and the Public Interest

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY S. MARSHALL ◽  
ENAMUL CHOUDHURY
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Public Service Motivation: A Rationalist Critique

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Bureaucratic Behavior

There has been a significant and growing interest, and growing empirical research, around Public Service Motivation (PSM) in recent years. There are few critiques of the construct, and none from a rationalist perspective. Given that the origins of PSM lie in attempts by public administration scholars to counter rationalist explanations of bureaucratic behavior, this lack of countercriticism is surprising. This article provides a rationalist critique of PSM. It argues that PSM is consistent with, and not an alternative to, rationalist understandings of what motivates individuals. It also argues that a significant gap in the PSM literature is around how civil servants and others make decisions; decisions about the public interest, and thus how and when to allocate public resources. It concludes that seeing PSM as consistent with rationality, and specifically as a form of expressive interests, answers many of the remaining questions about PSM and addresses the substantive gaps in the construct.

The Crucial Link: Public Administration, Responsibility, and the Public Interest

1964 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert J. Storing ◽  
Carl J. Friedrich ◽  
Harlan Cleveland ◽  
Harold D. Lasswell
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Corruption: Epistemological Reflections and Contributions to the Public Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (96) ◽  
pp. 164-186
Author(s):  
Suélem Viana Macedo ◽  
Josiel Lopes Valadares
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Efficient Control ◽  
Civic Virtues ◽  
Deliberative Processes

Abstract Corruption is a recurring phenomenon throughout history, so different conceptions seek to formulate a concept that defines it. This theoretical essay aims to introduce a perspective that broadens the understanding of corruption beyond the currents of thought that prevail in studies about Brazilian public administration. This study indicates that the epistemic reconstruction of the meaning of corruption should derive from the conception of public interest as a result of deliberative processes between citizens and the State. Such perspective contributes to the debate about the importance of participation of the civil society in controlling corruption and creating public interest itself. This study also highlights that more efficient control is not only restricted to legislation reforms but it also relies on the enhancement civic virtues.

“The Public Interest” in Administrative Decision-Making: Theorem, Theosophy, or Theory?

1957 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glendon A. Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Enterprise System ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
The Social

Textbooks in public administration customarily conclude with a section on administrative responsibility. The charitable inference is that this location betokens the saving of the best till last, rather than the appendage of an afterthought. Herbert Kaufman might explain it as the preoccupation of the past generation of political scientists with the legitimation of the efficient exercise of administrative power to subserve the goals of the social state, with a consequent sublimation of the emerging problem of the control of large, professionalized bureaucracies. However that may be, it does seem clear that, with the exception of administrative decisions which adversely affect “civil liberties,” most political scientists have been content to let lawyers and defenders of the free enterprise system worry about the restraint of administrative action.

scholarly journals Aspekty dobra wspólnego w aktywności administracji publicznej

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 (3)) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Mariusz Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Dimension ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual

The article concerns the issue of common good in the activity of public administration. It is exactly the aspects of this “good” which have a direct influence on the motives behind administrative actions. It turns out that what is “common” can be understood as pertaining to entire society, but also in relation to individual interests. The public administration, although traditionally connected only to the public interest, also implements the good of the individual and this not only indirectly, as it has been noted in the literature of the subject so far, but also independently. Because the common good has its different aspects in the sense that it does not have to mean only values of a strictly general dimension. This may be significant for the definitional purpose to the very administration itself and testifies, at the same time, to the multidimensional nature of contemporary public administration. The considerations are developed with reference to potential relations of public interest and the individual one, in which the most important place is occupied by conflict of these interests.

scholarly journals Port reform – key aspect of globalization

2018 ◽  
Vol XIX (1) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Nistor F
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Port Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Logistic Chain ◽  
Port Reform

Globalization and increased free trade between continents have led to the need to adapt port management to changes and opportunities that occurred. Ports under public administration have had to identify strategies to deal with more aggressive regional or international competition. The opinion of governments of developing countries about improving port performance is more involvement of the private sector. Therefore, countries have understood the need to change over ports administration system from the "public interest" into "public/private interest" category. This paper attempts to highlight the importance of structural reform in the ports due to national markets open up to international trade and the need to integrate the port into the local or regional logistic chain.

scholarly journals Partnerstwo publiczno-prywatne jako forma współpracy administracji publicznej z otoczeniem

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Justyna Przedańska
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Common Interests

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AS AFORM OF COOPERATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION WITH THE ENVIRONMENTThe article presents the legal nature of the public-private partnership, which is another form of along-standing mechanism of participation of the private sector in the fulfilling the public tasks. Public-private partnership means all forms of cooperation between public authorities and the private sector, which are designed to finance the construction, management and maintenance of infrastructure, or to provide services. Public administration cooperation with private partners in the delivery of public tasks should always involve assuming common interests not just public interest or private interest, and co-responsibility for the success of the project.

scholarly journals Publicans according to the Justinian's Digest: Institutionalised corruption and its legal sanctioning

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1415-1431
Author(s):  
Nataša Deretić ◽  
Milan Milutin
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Tax Collection ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Power And Influence ◽  
Profit Growth

Rapid expansion of ancient Roman territory was apparently not followed by a sufficiently quick growth of public administration. Consequently, a part of public authorities was entrusted to private individuals. This process appeared to be mutually beneficial. Public authority achieved the implementation of its jurisdiction, tax collection being of particular importance, while publicans, private individuals, acquired vast profits. Their profits were often a consequence of their abuse of the public authorities entrusted to them. The profit growth was followed by a growth of publicans' power and influence within the society, and consequently, the possibility of holders of public authorities to bring them to justice by exercising their powers was limited. Nevertheless, the aspect of legal limitations of publicans in which the authorities were partially successful, refers to the circumstances in which the public interest was harmed. Private individuals, however, were largely left at the mercy of the illegal actions of the publicans. The texts of Justinian's Digest, thus originating form the classical period, in which these matters are considered, were analysed in this paper.

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