Understanding Excellence in Public Administration: The Report of the Task Force on Educating for Excellence in the Master of Public Administration Degree of the American Society for Public Administration

Henry, Nicholas; Goodsell, Charles T.; Lynn, Laurence E.; Stivers, Camilla; Wamsley, Gary L.

doi:10.1080/15236803.2009.12001548

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“…By its nature "administrative law is an intensely practical field" (Cooper, 2000, pp. 1-21; see also Henry, Goodsell, Lynn, Stivers, & Wamsley, 2009;Mc-Swite, 2001;Newswander & Newswander, 2012) that cannot be confined to legality, and just as cogently involves politics, history, political culture, and the purposes, procedures, and practical administrative competencies required to implement statutes (these points are brilliantly driven home by Bonnie Honig, 2005). Administrative law turns out to be an excellent vantage point from which to trace changes in governing techniques, in the rationalities and truths that those techniques are meant to verify, and in the kinds of people administrators and citizens become in order to properly model and hold each GeneAlOGy And The GOveRnAnce OF SelF And OTheRS other accountable to those rationalities and truths.…”

Section: Genealogy and The Governance Of Self And Othersmentioning

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Genealogy and the Governance of Self and Others

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2014

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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This paper explores the use of genealogical readings of administrative law cases as a practice of ethical education in public administration. The proposed approach draws on John Rohr's use of court cases as a teaching method in public administration and Michel Foucault's exploration, in his last three lecture courses, ofGreek and Roman practices of parrhesia, or free-spokenness. Rohr argued that the interlocutory treatment of court cases cultivated reflective care for public things rather than simple rule-following. Thus, the study of court cases became what Foucault would call a technique of care for oneself and others, or literally a government of self and others. Following Foucault, I make two amendments to Rohr's scheme. First, rather than study the progress and continuity of rights, I emphasize discontinuous regimes of truth-telling. Second, I substitute genealogical methods for jurisprudential ones. This requires a shift in perspective best teased out by exploring the techniques by which ancient philosophy taught those who governed others first of all to govern themselves.

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Section: Genealogy and The Governance Of Self And Othersmentioning

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Genealogy and the Governance of Self and Others

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2014

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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“…American public administration scholarship is alive and kicking by any measure. First, in terms of academic programmes, some count the programmes as about 260 (Henry et al 2008, p. 2) and 267 (Clark and Menifield 2003; Gold and Candler 2006) respectively. Of these, 161 are accredited by the National Association for Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.…”

Section: The ‘Size’ Of American Public Administrationmentioning

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“…Most social challenges must be met through interdisciplinary effort. Since public administration is the only study that studies government in all its aspects (and not just from disciplinary defined angles), it is fundamentally an umbrella discipline (see Whitley 1976), a multidiscipline like law, business, and medicine (see Henry et al 2008, p. 2), and an interdiscipline (Raadschelders 2010a). Second, and related to the above, is that public administration's object of study, government, is also of interest to scholars in other social sciences, to political officeholders, to career civil servants, to corporate executives, and to citizens.…”

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The Study of Public Administration in the United States

Raadschelders

2011

Public Administration

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The study of public administration in the United States is large in terms of the number of academic programmes, the range of journal publications, and the number of scholars. Its scholarship attracts attention from all over the globe. At the same time it is a public administration that is clearly embedded in a specific national culture, just as anywhere else. Three of the main challenges include the strong increase of quantitative‐statistical methods, the decline of practitioner authors, and substantive specialization to the extent that generalists' perspectives are losing ground.

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“…Many business excellence models are in use in private and public organisations, with each bringing benefits but also various weaknesses when applied in practice (Dahlgaard et al, 2013;Tomaževič et al, 2016). Although existing excellence models come from different perspectives, they all highlight the fact that excellence of public administration must necessarily be seen as a multi-dimensional concept (Aristovnik and Obadić, 2015;Emery et al, 2008;Henry et al, 2009).…”

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Excellence in public administration: job satisfaction as a factor of good administration

Aristovnik

Kovač

Leben

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IJHRDM

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Good administration emphasises the service-mindedness of public administration and the restriction of authority. It has long been primarily understood as a legal doctrine. However, the notion of good administration has to be expanded with the concept of business excellence to incorporate specific managerial elements because satisfied civil servants better satisfy the public interest and the rights of parties. Hence, an analysis of good administration in relation to job satisfaction was conducted, with a special focus on Slovenian practices in various types of administrative agencies. First, the results show that job satisfaction is a factor of good administration and, second, that its understanding and enforcement vary according to the type of agency involved (service or authoritative). Third, there is an insufficient awareness of job satisfaction impact both on the satisfaction of parties in administrative procedures and on good administration holistically.

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Understanding Excellence in Public Administration: The Report of the Task Force on Educating for Excellence in the Master of Public Administration Degree of the American Society for Public Administration

Cited by 29 publications

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Genealogy and the Governance of Self and Others

Genealogy and the Governance of Self and Others

The Study of Public Administration in the United States

Excellence in public administration: job satisfaction as a factor of good administration

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