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10/23/13
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: WILSON's VIEW OF PUBLIC ADM INISTRATION,NEW PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,PUBLIC CHOICE APPROAC… He stated that public administration was businesslike and mechanistic and not laced with the ups and downs of politics. He asserted that politics did not have answers to most of the questions of administration and thus is to be out of the sphere of administration and vice versa According to him administration is to be technically compete nt and politically neutral for a democracy.
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Politicians were elected by people whereas civil servants were trained for the job and were te chnically sound to carry out the job in the best possible way. Thus for Wilson, it is said, the Study of public administration, derived from the Study of politics, was to be distinguished from it, but never divorced from its “maxims” and “ truths”. To Wilson, public administration was much more than technical detail and it was to be conducted in a political context .Thus he treated “politics and public administration as two sides of a coin”.
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NPA through the Minnowbrook Conferences was the response to the world wars and social upheaval in the 20th century and how traditional public administration was not equipped to respond to this and the societal needs. It put a lot of emphasis on having values in public administration instead of just bothered about production and profit all the time and make policies for the underprivileged and society. It was a humanist approach to traditional public administration being practiced at that time. Its themes were :
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1. Relevance: Traditional public administration has too little interest in
contemporary problems and issues. Social realities must be taken into consideration. 2. Values: Value-neutrality in public administration is an impossibility. The
values being serve d through administrative action must be transparent. 3. Social Equity: Realization of social equity should be a chief goal of public
administration. 4. Change: Skepticism toward the deeply-rooted powers invested in
permanent institutions and the status quo. 5. Client Focus: Positive, proactive, and responsive administrators rather
than inaccessible and authoritarian "ivory tower " bure aucrats. Since it was very prescriptive(instructive) and not descriptive ( de tailed and practical) as in v ery pre achy without any means to practically implement the m, it could not prevail for long or have a bang on impact as scholars were unsure and confused be cause of the abovementioned. It was criticised that though it brought public administration closer to political science, it was criticized as anti-theoretic (not having any theory and not following any pre existing theory) and anti-management(not businesslike). Robert T. Golembiewski describes it as radicalism in words and status quo in skills and technologie s. Golembiewski considers it as a temporary and transitional phenomena. Further, it must be counted as only a cruel reminder of the gap in the field between aspiration and performance. So, NPA is important for the change in thought it brought about viz. the practice of traditional public administration. PUBLIC CHOICE APPROACH: Public choice approach is the use of modern economics tools to study problems that traditionally are in the province of political science. Please note that 'public' here refers to the administrators and the choices they make while implementing and formulating policies. From the perspective of political science, it is the subset of positive political theory that models voters, politicians, and bureaucrats as mainly self-interested. In particular, it studies such agents and their interactions in the social system either as such or under alternative constitutional rules and on what basis do they take decisions while implementing policies and also formulating policies.. These can be represented in a number of ways, including standard constrained utility maximization, game theory, or decision theory. Public choice analysis has roots in positive analysis ("what is") but is often used for normativepurposes ("what ought to be"), to identify a problem or suggest how a system could be improved by changes in
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: WILSON's VIEW OF PUBLIC ADM INISTRATION,NEW PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,PUBLIC CHOICE APPROAC… constitutional rules, the subject of constitutional economics. Public choice theory is intimately related to social choice theory, which uses mathematical tools to study voting and voters. Much early work had aspects of both, and both use the tools of economics and game theory. Since voter behavior influences the behavior of public officials, public choice the ory often uses results from social choice theory. GOOD GOVERNANCE: Gover nance describes "the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented)".The term governance can apply to corporate, international, national, local governance or to the interactions between other sectors of society. It looks to reform governance through a variety of ways like comparitive studies and democratisation and decentralisation,transparency,etc. All international organisations like the UN, IMF & World Bank have put their weight behind this movement. The criticism it has invited is that these very same international organisations who are behind it should not arm twist governments in all countries especially underdeve loped and dev eloping ones into following their ways of functioning because their is a sea of difference. NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: It advocates the incorporation of more management practices into public administration to reform it and make it more efficient. It proposes reforms such as incentives for administrators,deadlines and contracts outsourced and more public-pvt partnership. However,the criticism it has drawn is that this needs to be implemented with caution especially in countries like India where administrators are still not evolved and will become all the more selfish and would only be bothered about profiteering.
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2 comments: Babji@IITR August 6, 2013 at 9:36 PM Please explain Blacksburg Manifesto(BM) in relation to Minnowbrook Conference and the following statements 1. The BM thus releases public administration from the stifling hold of behaviourlism and
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: WILSON's VIEW OF PUBLIC ADM INISTRATION,NEW PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,PUBLIC CHOICE APPROAC… positivism 2.The BM is an example of high modernism. It goes beyond the functionalist paradigm and presents a post-modern perspective. Reply
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@BabjiIITR: The Blacksburg Manifesto is context specific discussing the competency and legitimacy of the American Public Administration which is grounded in the USA Constitution and which cannot & should not be done away with at all. The Administration/Bureaucracy during the Carter and Reagen was bashed publicly by their own governments and termed irrelevant by the politicians and the public alike,close on the heels and findings of the Minnowbrook Conference and the Management theories gaining momentum. The Blacksburg Manifesto redefines the legitimate role of the Public Administrator and creates a normative theory of the development of American Public Administration and this Manifesto was in response to the bureaucrat bashing that was going on as well as to provide the present and future development of the administration. It plants adminstration into the normative concepts of governance and constitutionalism and argues that such a regrounding is apt to discover the legitimate role of the public administrator in matters of governance. It thus releases the Public Administration from the stranglehol d and stifling hold of behaviourilism (Herbert Simon approach/behaviour of administrator) and positivism (a theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences ) and might be termed as " structuralism,institutionalism or neo-institutionalism". It contrasts with the Public Choice Theory and emphasises upon conceptualising public adminsitration as "governance" rather than management or administration in the public sector, in this perspective the institutions of public administration are looked as instruments/agencies of action in pursuit of public interest. The Minnowbrook Conference overlooked the institutional and structural base of public adminsitration and focussed only on the new path that Traditional Public Administration should now tread upon in these changed socio-economic conditions which the Blacksburg Manifesto filled up and visualises adminis tration as a part of policy process engaged in search of public interest. The Manifesto is an example of high modernism and goes beyond the functionalist (focussing only on how to function properly & techniques) paradigm and presents a post modern (agency) perspective. The Blacksburg Manifesto referred to “debilitatingly irrelevant intellectual baggage” inherited from the field’s founders – “(borrowing) heavily from private-sector management techniques” rather than developing “its own theories, concepts, norms, or techniques.” The “own theories” sought mostly involved justifying wide participation by officials in policymaking: “The popular will does not reside solely in elected officials but in a constitutional order that envisions a remarkable variety of legitimate titles to participate in governance. The Public Administration, created by statutes based on this constitutional order, holds one of these titles. Its role, therefore, is not to cower before a sovereign legislative assembly or a sovereign elected executive [but rather] to share in governing wisel y and well the cons titutional order”. Both empirical and normative inquiries regarding administrators’ role in policymaking, and the public’s role in administration, are legitimate, and there is no reason to criticize the field’s initial postwar engagement, especially given the oversimplified view the founders had articulated. Reply
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