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Showing 1 to 20 of 1460 for “"Public administration"”.
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Social Equity in Public Administration
… regarding social equity and a place within Public Administration. Social equity is a value that informs theory and practice. The manner in which value informs theory and practice will be included to provide a theoretical basis. Tensions between New Public Administration and the previous …
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Reframing public administration: a systems-methodological analysis of governance and the role of public administration
Despite repeated attempts, no normative theory of public administration has emerged that fully and satisfactorily answers questions about the role of public administration, and public administrators, in the process of governance. This dissertation argues that such questions are unresolvable because …
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Presidential power and constitutional public administration.
… with a study of the first and second Trump administrations, the dissertation demonstrates that continual disruption can lead to regime threatening constitutional crises. The dissertation argues that it is only a return to a genuinely constitutional understanding of public administration that …
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The Study of Public Administration in Korea: The Executive-Centered Approach to Public Administration and Its Legacy
… if, and how, the executive-centered approach to public administration, which emphasized public administrators' unwavering loyalty to the president, intellectually shaped the founding and growth of Korean mainstream public administration in the 1962-1987 period. Specifically, this dissertation …
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Rural public administration: the tasks of leadership
… officials indicate higher levels of activity in administration and management than did their urban counterparts. Urban and rural administrative officials are characterized by similar perceptions that lead to relatively high levels of activity. The differences in attitudes and perceptions …
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Sustainable Public Administration: the Search for Intergenerational Fairness
This study presents a broad understanding of sustainability-sustainability as intergenerational equity, or fairness in relation to future generations. It seeks to fill the theoretical gap in the sustainability literature, in particular the preoccupation of that literature with short-term …
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Historic preservation: a study in local public administration
… This study examines the relationships between public board members, citizen interests, career public administrators and the elected appointing authorities. This research involved a national survey of over 1200 members of boards of historic architectural review. In addition, four town or county …
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Public administration research in South Africa : an assessment of journal articles in Journal of Public Administration & Administratio Publica from 1994-2006
This dissertation is a study on Public Administration research in South Africa. It explores the current nature of Public Administration research in the country by analysing and categorising journal articles extending over a thirteen year time period from 1994-2006. The hypothesis guiding this …
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Towards Management Information System in public administration in Uganda
… a management information system (MIS) for public administration. The study focused on the information system at the Ministry of Health (MOH), and Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development (MFPED) in the case of Central Government; and that of local administration of five …
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Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration
Histories of public administration’s early intellectual development have little to report on the influences of pragmatism as developed by philosophers such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. This dissertation contributes to the literature of the history of public …
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American Public Administration: A Foundation for Praxis and Praxiology
American Public Administration (PA) theory and practices have lacked adequately articulated or formalized normative foundations since the formal founding of the American State. Discussions regarding how PA theory derives from individual and collective critical reflection on practices (praxiology) …
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Systems Thinking for Prioritizing Technology Research & Development in Public Administration
In Japan's policies on science and technology, the distribution of resources may be done without any theoretical basis. The Cabinet Office, which prepares the basic plan for science and technology policy, and the ministries and agencies that specifically implement science and technology policy …
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From policy to practice: AI integration in Brazilian and German public administration
… Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming public administration, but its implementation is shaped by local contexts. This thesis compares AI adoption in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Berlin, Germany, examining how administrative traditions influence results. Belo Horizonte, with a hybrid …
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Application of Public Administration As Viewed Through a Non-Profit Organization Intern
My Master of Public Administration Program Internship took place at Not For Sale Georgia, an affiliate of Not For Sale Campaign. I interned at NFSGA from January to April, 2009. NFSC is a non-profit organization that fights the global slave trade. NFSGA aims to educate and mobilize an abolitionist …
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A critical analysis of Public Administration Doctrates in South Africa 1994- 2007
This study has presented a critical analysis of Public Administration doctorates in South Africa between 1994 and 2007. The methodology utilised is that of content analysis of completed Public Administration doctoral abstracts (116 in total). These were classified according to analytical and …
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Congressional Reporting: A Management Process to Build a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
… element of the concept of a legislative-centered public administration (Rosenbloom, 2000) "derived from the major discussions, decisions, and actions taken by Congress with regard to federal administration." This dissertation first describes the development of congressional reporting requirements …
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