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Luiz César Silva; Isabel Maria Macedo; Maria Thompson – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
Global disruptions are marking our days and calling on individuals, institutions, and the State for institutional change. Given the need to understand changing processes and their implications for society and public policy, it is vital to equip Public Administration students with the knowledge of relevant theories to assess the complexity of such…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Teaching Methods, Organizational Change, Public Policy
Ringeling, Arthur – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
Both in Public Administration and in practice, there is a loss of the concept of public. A view became dominant in which markets were superior to governments and public to private. Not only did the esteem of the public sphere diminish, but also its significance in our reasoning and teaching. It became less clear what the public sphere stood for.…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Public Administration, Public Sector, Private Sector
O'Neill, Patrick B.; Harsell, Dana Michael – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
The authors describe the theoretical preparation provided to students in advance of a limited-duration experiential learning experience in Washington DC in a Master's level course for students in Business or Public Administration. The students consider theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, and public administration with…
Descriptors: Economics, Political Science, Public Administration, Experiential Learning
Rosenbaum, Allan – Teaching Public Administration, 2014
This article begins by reviewing developments in the field of public administration over the past 50 years and identifying factors that have served, in some cases unintentionally, to undermine public confidence in the actual practice of public administration. It then examines a number of important conditions that must be addressed in the…
Descriptors: Public Administration, History, Professional Development, Government Role
Maiztegui-Oñate, Concepción; Tuparevska, Elena; Inchaurtieta, Álvaro Moro – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2020
This chapter discusses the approach to Youth Guarantee (YG) in Spain in the context of high percentage of school dropout rates, high youth unemployment and a large number of people Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET). Furthermore, it provides a detailed context of how the YG was implemented within the complex territorial governance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Frankowski, Andrea; van der Steen, Martijn; Bressers, Daphne; Schulz, Martin; Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2018
Prepared for a Strategic Education Governance learning seminar, this working paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch government tried to reach overarching goals in education, in a system characterised by a high degree of distributed autonomy of education institutions and the participation of multiple actors, and consequently a government highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Conrad, Cynthia; Coleman, Charles – Journal of International Education Research, 2011
Teaching Chinese students in an American university can be both challenging and rewarding. Cultural and language differences can lead to some superficial confusion and interpretational problems. However, the vast differences in the ways Chinese students view the role of the public sector, as compared to the US, can mean that the instructors and…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Public Administration, Foreign Countries, Public Sector
Howard, Lawrence C. – Journal of Afro-American Issues, 1975
The stated purpose of this article is to relate the black struggle for liberation to the oppressive administrative context of Blacks in America; attention is directed first to the mounting crisis in both the theory and practice of public administration, and then to the paradigm of "praxis" as an alternative to that of administration. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems
STONE, DONALD C. – 1966
DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, CONCERNED WITH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE, HAS A DIFFERENT FOCUS AND COVERS DIFFERENT SUBJECTS FROM THOSE IN TRADITIONAL COURSES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, OR LAW. IN DESIGNING A CURRICULUM, TRAINING CENTERS SHOULD STUDY THE TASKS AND PROCESSES OF DEVELOPMENT, ADMINISTRATIVE OBSTACLES, AND…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, College Administration, Community Development, Developing Nations
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Shinn, Marybeth; Weitzman, Beth C. – Journal of Social Issues, 1990
Introduces an issue on the causes, consequences, and social response to homelessness, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, medicine, sociology, economics, public administration, law, and psychology. Much attention has been given to the problems of homeless individuals; this issue attempts a comprehensive overview of the…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Government Role, Homeless People, Housing Needs
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Lofgren, Hans – Australian Library Journal, 1998
Examines implications of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) to Victoria (Australia) public libraries and the revision or abandonment of previously dominant ideals of public administration. Topics include the role of government; public services as a competitive market environment; economic rationalism; and the threat to the…
Descriptors: Competition, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System
Flint, Colin – Adults Learning, 2007
In contrast to traditional public administration in which public managers were responsible for meeting service targets set by politicians (e.g. a top-down, bureaucratic approach) and new public management (a more market-driven approach to public service provision that aimed to reduce the reach of government), public value aims to put the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
Hanson, Mark – 1974
In the late 1960's the Executive Branch of the Venezuelan government launched a massive reform of its mechanism of public administration in order to make it more supportive of the development needs of the country. This paper is an effort to analyze the process of organizational change as it takes place within one segment of the public…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Bureaucracy, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1988
This committee hearing reports a bill, H.R. 4417, which is a measure designed to improve the federal government's ability to collect scientific and technical data and to give these functions, which are currently being performed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), to a new governmentally owned corporation. The bill provides for…
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Government, Government Role
Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
The 2020 PDK Poll of the Public's Attitude Toward the Public Schools finds that more than half of adults consider public education highly important in their choice for president. And regardless of political party, most Americans agree that the administration in Washington should focus on attracting and retaining good teachers to the profession and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Opinion, Educational Attitudes, Public Education