Moving Forward? Assessing Public Administration Reform in Afghanistan BRIEFING PAPER Sarah Lister September 2006 Moving Forward? Assessing Public Administration Reform in Afghanistan Overview Contents I. Introduction II. Public Administration Reform in Afghanistan III. The Scorecard: Achievements and Problems To Date IV. What can we learn from PAR elsewhere? V. What does PAR in Afghanistan need to succeed? VI. Ways Forward Successful public administration reform (PAR) in Afghanistan
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DEFINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION When people think about government‚ they think of elected officials. The attentive public knows these officials who live in the spotlight but not the public administrators who make governing possible; it generally gives them little thought unless it is to criticize “government bureaucrats.” Yet we are in contact with public administration almost from the moment of birth‚ when registration requirements are met‚ and our earthly remains cannot be disposed of without
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Public Administration * ← Back Q&A - Public Administration Courses and Classes Is there any open courseware available for online public administration courses? If you are taking 1 of the top online public administration courses you can supplement your studies with courseware from a prestigious or foreign university. You may want to consider Fundamentals of Public Policy offered through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The entire course‚ as taught in 2004 by Professors Steve
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2: Theory of Public Administration and Public Policy § "The debate between scientific management and human relations is a continuing one. It may be tempting to regard the theories of Taylor and Mayo as mutually exclusive-at one time one theory is pre-eminent while at other time the other is- but this would be misleading". Discuss; particularly refer whether this is still a viable argument in public administration theory? § In the evolution of public administration as a discipline
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The roll of ethics in public administration is based on the administration; administrators should be value-free when they implement public policy. I will discuss why ethics should be based on the administration and‚ why it should not be based on each individual worker in the administration. I will discuss Weber’s stance on values in bureaucratic organizations‚ what Macintyre suggests‚ and what Hummel and Goodsell would conclude about values in public administration. Most people do not understand
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PHILIPPINE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION?*Professor and Dean‚ National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG)‚ University of the Philippines Diliman‚ and University Researcher (NCPAG)and former instructor of Saint Paul University Philippines‚ respectively.The assistance of Kate Asilo in the preparation of this article and of PaulynBautista (with her insights and contribution in developing the section on GawadKalinga) is gratefully acknowledged. Philippine Journal of Public Administration‚ Vol
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Public administration is not a science or an art. Public administration is known as a "craft" for many reasons. It is not science because there isn’t an entirely correct way of doing it‚ there are no equations that will constitute efficiency or effectiveness for sure. Science is all about facts‚ a scientific rule is one that works all the time. Although administrators use scientific laws‚ techniques‚ and data‚ they do so in ways that give individual imagination and temperament free rein. There
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PUBLIC POLICY Public policy may be defined as a course of action taken by a government to address an issue or a matter of national importance or resolve a problem or a crisis ~ Peter Johnson Other definitions of public policy are: "Public policy is a purposeful and consistent course of action taken as a response to a perceived problem of a nation‚ formulated by a specific political process‚ and adopted‚ implemented and enforced by a public agency." ~ Wayne Hayes " The term public policy
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he underlying causes of World War I‚ which began in the The Balkans in late July 1914‚ are several. Among these causes were political‚ territorial and economic conflicts among the great European powers in the four decades leading up to the war. Additional causes were militarism‚ a complex web of alliances‚ imperialism‚ and nationalism. The immediate origins of the war‚ however‚ lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914 caused by the assassination of Archduke
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Master in Public Administration in the Philippines The Master in Public Administration program (MPA) is designed to provide students with a strong foundation of administrative concepts‚ processes and techniques related to the management of public institutions. The program is intended for administrators‚ policy makers and managers of public and private organizations who would like to broaden their understanding and professional perspectives of the practical dimensions of administration. Admission
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