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Revitalizing public management training in the Americas
Author(s) -
Graham Lawrence S.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
public administration and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-162X
pISSN - 0271-2075
DOI - 10.1002/pad.4230130202
Subject(s) - public administration , leverage (statistics) , new public management , agency (philosophy) , public sector , political science , government (linguistics) , politics , public relations , economic growth , sociology , economics , social science , linguistics , philosophy , machine learning , computer science , law
The decade of the 1980s signalled major changes within public administration and development‐oriented activities. As a consequence of the internationalization of the agendas of practitioners and academics working in these areas, there is today a growing convergence among public policy, public management, public administration and political science. Given the complexity of the public sector cross‐nationally, what has become necessary in public management education is the design of programmes that meet specific needs and priorities and which are responsive to very different national settings. This particular case study is centred around one endeavour to achieve more effective interfacing between theory and practice, in the teaching of public management and the design of development programmes in the United States (US). It is based on an assessment of a 10‐year co‐operative endeavour between the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the US Agency for International Development. The outcomes of this project provided not only leverage for important changes in the teaching programmes of schools concerned with international management education but also built a new relationship between government and a non‐governmental organization through the contacting out of management development work.