Therefore, Is Bureaucracy Dead? Making a Case for Complementarity of Paradigms in Public Administrative Thinking and Discourse

Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah, Kwame Asamoah, Thomas Agyekum Kyeremeh

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)382-394
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Public Administration
Volume39
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bureaucracy
  • developing countries
  • new public management
  • public administration
  • public value

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