CHAPTER SUMMARY

Chapter Summary

Chapter Summary

The current chapter presents various perspectives and ideas, which prevail the public administration literatures for the past many years. The chapter offers its readers the basic point of view in terms of two approaches which entail (i) accepting and approving of the impacts created by the political, academic, and social incidents and events of the period leading to the emergence of ideas, and (ii) the basic theories and approaches of the public administration which have competed for the prevalence in the dimensions of the perspective that describe the subject of public administration.

Although all the three contexts have been in existence at all the times of influences, yet still, various concerns have been stressed upon and redefined over one another in different periods of social, political, and academic impacts. These three leading concerns are as follows:

Effectiveness of Program

Effectiveness of Management

Effectiveness of Politics

Amongst other goals and objectives, the implied goal of the public administration is distinctively aimed upon a requirement to find out the manner in which these concerns can possibly be balanced and reconciled. The latest reestablishment of this reconciliation requirement is in the question that was put forward around forty years ago in two parts: What is the philosophical foundation of bureaucratic decision-making, and what are the implied needs for the applications of this perspective?

Audiences

The intended audience for this book includes the managers of government enterprises, the government itself and the policy and decision-makers. The book addresses the various philosophies, perspectives and issues of the traditional and new public management top its audiences in a conceptual manner. It talks about the reinvention of public management and analyzes the administration through directing it to the public administrators and managers. A detailed description of the public administration as sciences and the generic movement with reference to various researchers helps the subject at hand proceed very well.

Key Concepts and Definitions

The key concepts undertaken to study in the current research include the discussion of the acceptance of influences created by the social and political situations and the dominant theories and approaches that have been integrated into the impacts. The book discusses the early years of the civil service reforms in United States, which led towards the evolution of the public administration policies. Then, it goes ahead to describe the public administration in terms of science by referring it to the work of Frederick Taylor. It also mentions the characterization of the public management work with proverbs, which also paved way for the guidance of its practices. For instance, PODSCORB by Luther Gulick was one such acronym, which gave rise to the fundamentals of public management in an ordered form. Then concept of new public administration after World War I, the emergence of generic movement and the new second public administration have also been elaborated in the context. The reinvention movement has been well incorporated into the mainstream of public administration (Buck and Morgan, 2011). The centerpiece of the reinvention movement was the Performance Review (NPR) commission initiatives chaired by Vice ...