Controversies in public administration: enduring issues and questions in bureaucratic reform
By: Reyes, Danilo R.
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ArticlePublisher: 1997Description: p.277-300.Subject(s): Public administration | Bureaucracy | Administrative reform
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Philippine Journal of Public AdministrationSummary: Everybody deserves good governance vis-a-vis public administration. Moves to institute reforms in the government bureaucracy have been initiated here in the Philippines where it has always needed improvement and in the American federal government where public service generally is much better than it is hither, but in more ways than one, wants rectification. Several fancy labels used to describe better public administration like reinventing, reengineering, refounding and reframing are now becoming by-words in government circles. Certainly, it can be said that there exists today in the discipline a wealth of ideas, but its direction continues to be impoverished because many of the underlying notions that have surfaced in recent years have not just generated appeal and attention, but skepticism and misgivings. The perception therefore is that any initiative today must be guided by the wisdom of the past for many of these movements have not matched the expectations of their proponents and adherents in changing/reforming public organizations. In the spate of controversies surrounding these propositions, the single thorny question that remains hanging is: why is bureaucracy in most governments today not living up to expectations and what we are going to do with it? - Reproduced
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Everybody deserves good governance vis-a-vis public administration. Moves to institute reforms in the government bureaucracy have been initiated here in the Philippines where it has always needed improvement and in the American federal government where public service generally is much better than it is hither, but in more ways than one, wants rectification. Several fancy labels used to describe better public administration like reinventing, reengineering, refounding and reframing are now becoming by-words in government circles. Certainly, it can be said that there exists today in the discipline a wealth of ideas, but its direction continues to be impoverished because many of the underlying notions that have surfaced in recent years have not just generated appeal and attention, but skepticism and misgivings. The perception therefore is that any initiative today must be guided by the wisdom of the past for many of these movements have not matched the expectations of their proponents and adherents in changing/reforming public organizations. In the spate of controversies surrounding these propositions, the single thorny question that remains hanging is: why is bureaucracy in most governments today not living up to expectations and what we are going to do with it? - Reproduced
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