Should The Government Run Like A Democracy?

Denhardt & Denhardt explain in Chapter One that the government should not be run like a business, it should be run like a democracy. In public administration, new developments have managers listening to the public and not making decisions without their consent and public employees enjoy working with the public and are using their professionalism to make a difference in peopl’s lives (Denhardt & Denhardt 2015). Denhardt & Denhardt explain that the old public administration concern itself with the teachings of Woodrow Wilson and was hierarchical and was concerned about separating politics from administration and the belief that public administrators should not be influenced by politicians. The Scientific Management theory devised by Frederick Taylor stated that there is one best way to achieve a task and the old public administration was highly influenced by scientific management (Denhardt & Denhardt 2015). Old public administration was concerned with centralization, hierarchy and discipline and democracy was not the main consideration of public administrators (Denhardt & Denhardt 2015). Old public administration is …show more content…
Equity is an important consideration in the new public service as new public management did not take equity and fairness in to consideration. Another key consideration in the new public service is post modernism, which means that social science can be applied to government problems and by using the scientific method, the best solutions can be determined (Denhardt & Denhardt 2015). The new public service is concerned with strategic decisions which are achieved through collaboration and accountability is hard to achieve and public administrators should always be striving to more accountable and people should be valued and not just productivity (Denhardt & Denhardt