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The Publicness of Public Administration

Administration and Society, 2008
Public administration theory has always struggled to find a clear-cut understanding of the publicness of public administration. There are at least five different approaches to distinguish public from private organizations. A closer examination shows that these five approaches are based on two conceptual versions of the publicness of public ...
Udo Pesch
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Complexity Theory and Public Administration: What's New?

Public Management Review, 2008
Increasing attention is being paid to the application of complex systems theories in the social sciences. Although this trend is less prominent in the field of public administration, some examples of the use of complexity theory in research in this ...
Erik-Hans Klijn
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS STORYTELLING

Public Administration, 2011
I’ll tell you a storyAbout Jack a Nory,And now my story's begun;I’ll tell you anotherOf Jack and his brother,And now my story is done.[Anon] A great writer of fiction both creates a new, unique, individual world – through acts of imagination, through language that feels inevitable, through commanding forms – and responds to a world, the world the ...
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Phenomenology and public administration

International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 2003
Phenomenologists are among the strongest opponents of logical positivism. Mostly associated with Edmund Husserl, phenomenology is essentially an analytical method or framework for describing and explaining social relationships and psychological orientations.
Wesley Waugh, William Waugh
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Organizing Public Administration

2020
This chapter is inspired by the observation that new trends—in the cultural, economic, and political global scenario—are changing how public organizations are organized, making them increasingly complex and effective in challenging critical problems, such as poverty, unemployment, and environmental sustainability. These changes are aimed at influencing
Decastri, Maurizio, Buonocore, Filomena
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The Existentialist Public Administrator

International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 2003
The philosophical roots of existentialism can be found in the writings of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus. Sartre used existentialism to frame the social and political issues of the day after World War II and Camus helped popularize the philosophyʼns focus on individualism and personal freedom.
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Transparency in Public Administration

2020
Abstract Transparency is one of the keywords of contemporary governance. It is often associated with democratic accountability, but it also carries connotations of market efficiency. Though transparency is a key concept for economics and politics, its ideational roots lie in access to government information.
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The "reflexive" public administration

2023
A peculiar aspect of the precautionary principle lays right in the reassessment and renewal of authorization provisions. Precautionary measures are provisional and subject to review upon acquisition of “new scientific information” or development of “best available technologies”.
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AI and Public Administration

The chapter explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and public administrations. It is structured into three parts. The first part examines the different types of artificial intelligence and the various ways in which public administration can employ it, in order to assess the risks and highlight the opportunities it presents.
Marchetti, Barbara, Torchia, Luisa
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