Reflective Public Administration : Views from the South

Wessels, J. S. (EDT)/ Pauw, J. C. (EDT)

Oxford University Press Southern Africa（2000/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 512 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195715040
• DDC分類 351.0968

Full Description

This is primarily a textbook for senior and postgraduate students of Public Administration. It covers the nature, ethics, discipline, and methodology of public administration, and as such is a source book for all practitioners of public administration in the civil service. This book is intended for third year and postgraduate students of Public Administration.

Contents

Part 1 Public administration - contextual issues: the state - the locus of rights, social contract and justice; the concept of "public administration"; philosophical issues in management; development at the dawn of the 21st century. Part 2 The ethics of public administration: ethics for public administration and management in the 21st century; professional ethics from day to day - a practitioner's reflection; ethics and budget; race and gender inequalities in public administration; the ethics of ministerial responsibility to parliament. Part 3 Knowledge and paradigms in pubic administration: the nature of social science; recent trends - evaluating theories of political control of vureaucracy; the paradigmatic debate in South African public administration - a continuing struggle. Part 4 Public administration methodology: research in pubic administration; social science methods in public administrations; narrative as method; reading texts and understanding meaning; philosophy as method.