TY - JOUR
T1 - Therefore, Is Bureaucracy Dead? Making a Case for Complementarity of Paradigms in Public Administrative Thinking and Discourse
AU - Yeboah-Assiamah, Emmanuel
AU - Asamoah, Kwame
AU - Kyeremeh, Thomas Agyekum
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/4/15
Y1 - 2016/4/15
N2 - ABSTRACT: Public Administration has gone through conceptual development to inject renaissance and public value creation. The literature provides a battleground of ideas between bureaucracy, new public management and post NPM with the latter ones chastising bureaucracy. The new developments should be seen as perfecting and correcting some of the extremes of bureaucracy but cannot replace it entirely. Owing to the broad nature of the public sector coupled with complex goals, agencies and mandates; this paper argues for a synergistic relationship and harmonization of the principles espoused by each paradigm; because each may be applicable in specific context, sector and periods.
AB - ABSTRACT: Public Administration has gone through conceptual development to inject renaissance and public value creation. The literature provides a battleground of ideas between bureaucracy, new public management and post NPM with the latter ones chastising bureaucracy. The new developments should be seen as perfecting and correcting some of the extremes of bureaucracy but cannot replace it entirely. Owing to the broad nature of the public sector coupled with complex goals, agencies and mandates; this paper argues for a synergistic relationship and harmonization of the principles espoused by each paradigm; because each may be applicable in specific context, sector and periods.
KW - Bureaucracy
KW - developing countries
KW - new public management
KW - public administration
KW - public value
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U2 - 10.1080/01900692.2015.1015558
DO - 10.1080/01900692.2015.1015558
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946593965
SN - 0190-0692
VL - 39
SP - 382
EP - 394
JO - International Journal of Public Administration
JF - International Journal of Public Administration
IS - 5
ER -