Public Administration Theories
Instrumental and Value Rationalities
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With the rise of China and the deepening of China-EU interactions, it is crucial for both China and the EU to know the Chinese public perceptions of the EU and what factors influence the formation of perceptio...
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Little is known about the political determinants of subjective well-being across nations. The objective of the study presented in this article is to single out the importance of a variety of determinants on th...
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The theoretical foundation of privatization of public utilities and public service was laid down by the American economist, Milton Friedman, who published “The Role of Government in Education,” in 1955. In 196...
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At the end of the twentieth century, the drawbacks in the New Public Management became increasingly obvious and were mainly displayed in the segmentation of public services and the deficiency in public values....
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From 1987 to 1991, the value rationality–oriented Democratic Administration held a dominant position in Public Administration theories. The school of Democratic Administration is composed of three groups of sc...
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In his Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government, which marks the establishment of the theory of Public Value Management, Mark H. Moore (1995) presents a conceptual framework of public value to ma...
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In his article The Study of Administration, Woodrow Wilson, the father of modern administrative science, points out, “Before entering on that study [of administrative science], however, it is needful: To take som...
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Public administration can trace its history back to the Sumerian civilization and its cities and city-states. As far back as 4300 BC to 3500 BC, the Sumerians built many cities (including Ubaid, Eridu, Ur, and...
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When World War II ended, Western capitalist countries entered a booming golden age. In the 1970s, however, a series of problems and contradictions began to be revealed in the economic, political, social, and c...
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The three Minnowbrook Conferences held in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York in 1968, 1988, and 2008 were like cicadas of Public Administration—appearing once every 20 years and creating a certain i...
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As the New Public Management gains popularity, its shortcomings are also exposed one by one. Some Public Administration scholars advocating value rationality have started to construct a new theory based on the...
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The previous chapters have made in-depth analyses of the eight main Public Administration theories from the perspectives of instrumental and value rationalities. All theories are systematically reviewed with th.....
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Attribute is a quality that something is born to have, and, generally, things have several attributes that can be divided into general ones and essential ones. From the perspective of philosophy, only by grasp...