Using teaching cases in professional education programs has gained increased attention in the past several decades. While the use of teaching cases has been an important part of social work education, the majority of current casebooks focus on micro or direct practice issues and settings. Over the past forty years only four major casebooks have…

Presents a survey of common and leading-edge computer use practices followed by municipal government personnel and the directors of 12 masters degree programs in public administration. Concludes by suggesting directions for future developments both in public agencies and in the academy. (GEA)

Advocacy has been an inherent component of social work since the mid-1800s. The NASW Code of Ethics explicitly promotes advocacy as an ethical stance against inhumane conditions. Whistle-blowing, on the other hand, occurs mostly in the business and public administration disciplines and is relatively unknown in the social work profession. Using…

This study examined the views of British public administrators regarding public administration education in Britain. A total of 386 local authority chief executives were surveyed by mail using a 7-page questionnaire; 108 completed surveys were returned. It was found that only 37 percent of the surveys were completed by the chief executives; the…

In a memorandum to the University of Southern California's Washington Public Affairs Center, its founding director reflects on the experience of establishing the doctoral program in public administration and the assumptions, practices, and resource issues associated with it, including essential elements such as careful selection of students and…

In recent years the two concepts of economic development and technological advancement have become entwined so that they have, in many cases, come to mean the same thing. For countries seeking economic development through engagement with the Information Economy, policies supporting technological development claim privileged positions in national…

Many realms of social inquiry, particularly public administration, are in the midst of an era of unprecedented epistemological introspection, driven primarily by frustration with the prevailing positivism of applied research. Rebuilding the systems paradigm requires recognition of its alternative view of scientific enterprise, its ability to…

Based on experience with a large public organization dedicated to transportation and economic development, an evaluation group manager provides insights into evaluation utilization. Motives, objectives, and impacts of evaluation are discussed; and a model of the evaluation universe is provided. (TJH)

The author addresses the issue of professionalism as it has evolved within the field of public administration. By evaluating the cases for and against professionalism and the role of the American Society for Public Administration, he focuses attention on questions regarding professionalism that are relevant to both practitioners and academicians.…

Examination of the foundations of public service ethics as reflected in 12 textbooks revealed that ethics coverage is modest and is seldom covered in areas in which ethical behavior is crucial. (Contains 57 references.) (JOW)

The stated purpose of this article is to relate the black struggle for liberation to the oppressive administrative context of Blacks in America; attention is directed first to the mounting crisis in both the theory and practice of public administration, and then to the paradigm of "praxis" as an alternative to that of administration. (Author/JM)

Examines some issues of the public administration training in the universities of Western industrialized countries offered to the potential bureaucratic elites of the transitional societies. (Author/ND)

Broadband holds a critical position in the progress of economic and social indicators by connecting consumers, businesses and governments. South Korea has consistently been the global leader in broadband deployment since 1999. In the last ten years the Korean government has pursued several strategies for its broadband policy. The purpose of this…

Oriented toward a consideration of administration from the standpoint of departmental problems, this textbook deals with administrative techniques and practices pertaining to public administration of recreational services. It covers organization, operation, planning, development, and managerial procedures, and also describes the basic elements of…

This paper presents the U.S. Department of Education's Fiscal Year (FY) "2010 Annual Performance Report" (APR). This report provides detailed information on: (1) the status of strategic goals, and (2) the outcomes of the strategic performance measures identified in the Department's "FY 2007-2012 Strategic Plan" and updated previously in the "FY…