The Future of Public Administration around the World: The Minnowbrook Perspective

337 Pages·2011·3.53 MB·English

by  Rosemary O'Leary

T F
HE UTURE OF
P A
UBLIC DMINISTRATION
W
AROUND THE ORLD
Public Management and Change Series
Beryl A. Radin, Series Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Robert Agranoff William Gormley
Michael Barzelay Rosemary O’Leary
Ann O’M. Bowman Norma Riccucci
H. George Frederickson David H. Rosenbloom
SELECTED TITLES IN THE SERIES
Challenging the Perf or mance Movement:
Accountability, Complexity, and Demo cratic Values
Beryl A. Radin
The Collaborative Public Manager:
New Ideas for the Twenty- First Century
Rosemary O ’Leary and Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Editors
The Dynamics of Per for mance Management:
Constructing Information and Reform
Donald P. Moynihan
The Greening of the U.S. Military:
Environmental Policy, National Security, and Or gan i za tion al Change
Robert F. Durant
How Management Matters: Street- Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform
Norma M. Riccucci
Implementing Innovation:
Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and
Natural Resource Governance
Toddi A. Steelman
Managing within Networks: Adding Value to Public Organizations
Robert Agranoff
Public Administration:
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge
Norma M. Riccucci
Or gan i za tion al Learning at NASA: The Challenger and Columbia Accidents
Julianne G. Mahler with Maureen Hogan Casamayou
Public Values and Public Interest:
Counterbalancing Economic Individualism
Barry Bozeman
The Responsible Contract Manager:
Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World
Steven Cohen and William Eimicke
Revisiting Waldo’s Administrative State:
Constancy and Change in Public Administration
David H. Rosenbloom and Howard E. McCurdy
T F
HE UTURE OF
P A
UBLIC DMINISTRATION
W
AROUND THE ORLD
T M
HE INNOWBROOK
P
ERSPECTIVE
ROSEMARY O’LEARY
DAVID M. VAN SLYKE
AND
SOONHEE KIM
EDITORS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data
The future of public administration around the world : the Minnowbrook perspective /
Rosemary O ’Leary, David M. Van Slyke, and Soonhee Kim, editors.
p. cm.—(Public management and change series)
Consists of abridged and revised versions of the best papers from the third Minnowbrook
Conference, which was hosted by Syracuse University in the fall of 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1 - 58901- 711- 5 (hardcover / pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Public administration–C ongresses. I. O’Leary, Rosemary, 1955– II. Van Slyke,
David. III. Kim, Soonhee.
JF1351.F88 2010
351—dc22
2010007868
This book is printed on acid-f ree paper meeting the requirements of the American National
Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials.
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
First printing
Printed in the United States of America
We dedicate this book to those who are engaged in public
ser vice and who are trying to make the world a better place. In
addition, we thank our families for their support and encour-
agement: Rosemary thanks Larry and Meghan; David thanks
Wendy, Ryan, Ashley, and Anneke; and Soonhee thanks her
mother, her late grandmother, and especially her late father,
Oakchul Kim.
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C
ONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xiii
Introduction: The Legacy of Minnowbrook 1
Soonhee Kim, Rosemary O ’Leary, David M. Van Slyke,
H. George Frederickson, and W. Henry Lambright
PART I. Studying and Managing Public Organizations
of the Future 17
From Per for mance Management to Democ ratic
Per for mance Governance 21
Donald P. Moynihan
An Argument for Fully Incorporating Nonmission-B ased
Values into Public Administration 27
Suzanne J. Piotrowski
Are We There Yet? From Taylor’s Triangle to Follett’s Web;
From Knowledge Work to Emotion Work 33
Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman, and Sharon H. Mastracci
The Raised Fist and the Magic Negro: Public Administration
and the Black Public Administrator 45
Domonic Bearfi eld
Social Equity in Public Administration: The Need for Fire 53
Susan T. Gooden
. . . And the Pendulum Swings: A Call for Evidence-B ased
Public Organizations 59
Kimberley R. Isett
Public Administration: The Central Discipline in Homeland Security 67
Dale Jones and Austen Givens
vii
viii CONTENTS
PART II. Globalization 79
The Study of Comparative Public Administration: Future
Trajectories and Prospects 81
Bidhya Bowornwathana
Reinventing Public Administration for the Twenty-F irst Century:
Toward a More Global and Generic Paradigm 95
Yilin Hou
A Personal Memo from a Woman Teaching Public
Administration in Asia 101
Ora- Orn Poocharoen
PART III. Collaboration 107
Collaborative Leadership and Local Governance 111
Soonhee Kim
The “New Emergency Management”: Applying the Lessons of
Collaborative Governance to Twenty-F irst- Century Emergency Planning 117
Michael McGuire, Jeffrey L. Brudney, and Beth Gazley
Collaborative Governance and Cross-B oundary Information Sharing:
Envisioning a Networked and IT-E nabled Public Administration 129
Theresa A. Pardo, J. Ramon Gil-G arcia, and Luis F. Luna- Reyes
Collaborative Governance and Climate Change: Opportunities
for Public Administration 141
Kirk Emerson and Peter Murchie
PART IV. Deliberative Democracy and Public Participation 155
Why Public Administration Should Take Deliberative Democracy
Seriously 159
Tina Nabatchi
When Should the Public Be Involved in Public Management?
Design Principles with Case Applications 167
John Clayton Thomas
CONTENTS ix
The Use of Social Media to Dissolve Knowledge Silos in
Government 177
Ines Mergel
PART V. Teaching the Next Generation of Leaders 185
Rebranding Public Administration for a Postsector Age 189
Scott E. Robinson
Can the Study and Practice of Public Serv ice Ethics Be Recovered
in a New Governance Era? 199
Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour
The Status of the Law in Contemporary Public Administration
Literature, Education, and Practice 211
David H. Rosenbloom and Katherine C. Naff
Adding Value in a World of Diffuse Power: Reintroducing
Public Management and Public Financial Management 221
Justin Marlowe and Daniel L. Smith
Teaching Democracy in Public Administration: Trends and
Future Prospects 233
Matt Leighninger
PART VI. Remaining Relevant 245
Making Public Administration Scholarship Matter 249
David M. Van Slyke
The Challenge of Remaining Relevant 255
Kristina Lambright
Has Public Administration “Repositioned” Itself?: Advances and
Inertias in Transitioning to the Collaborative Governance Paradigm 261
Kelly LeRoux
Public Administration and Management Research: Evidence of
Isolation and Unrealized Opportunity 267
Bradley E. Wright