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of good governance principles as listed by the National Development Agency, which include principles such as transparency, accountability, regulatory compliance, professionalism and competency, efficiency and effectiveness, and partnership between public and private sector (Bappenas, 2007). The implementation of good governance on Indonesian state asset management can be seen from the orderliness of government offices in the reports on state asset that…

Public administration concerns implementation of principled direction in government action and public service, with the primary objective of developing appropriate policies and management approaches to influence positive functioning in a government. It involves administration of public programs and translation of political processes into positive welfare benefits for citizens, through studies of government decision-making, analysis of policy, and assessments of approaches that contribute towards…

legislative reforms including requiring all government officials to publicly declare their assets (Morrell, 2012). The 2008 Constitution also requires that the government submit the draft budget to the parliament for approval which was rarely made public during the previous regimes (Chêne, 2012). These developments were encouraging but more commitments from the government were needed to convince the people and the international community of its sincerity…

Bureaucracy is seen in everyday life; they are imperative to society. Bureaucracies have made different impacts and “…tremendous strides in efficiency and productivity in the workplace through technology and the science of workplace management” (Larkin, 2015). This is a formal organization that helps accomplishes a goal or a task. Society would not be able to function properly without bureaucracy playing a role. Within a bureaucracy there are many different positions and elements that build the…

Q1: What is a government bureaucrat and are they essential to good governance in America? In simple terms, a government bureaucrat is someone who works in any kind of administrative capacity inside our government. Government bureaucrat preform a wide range of different task like teaching, monitoring federal candidates, and most often desk work. Most importantly their job is to implement government policy by either writing rules and regulations or administering policies directly to people. There…

In Chapter Five: “Public Management: The Structural Dimension” (pp.137-190) of Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach, Laurence Lynn and Carolyn Hill (2009) have gone deep into the understanding of the structural dimension of public management. The most prominent topics in relation to the focus of the book that have been discussed in this chapter include the section of defining the concept of structure. There is also a topic on evolution of the structural perspective that focuses on the…

review on an article published in the Public Administration Review (PAR) titled “Professionalism in Public Administration: Problems, Perspectives, and the Role of ASPA. Since the founding of public administration is graduate programs there has since then been an ongoing debate over whether pubic administration is or is not a profession. The answer still remains uncertain. This article examines the situation with respect to the professionalism of public administration. There are arguments…

's challenged the value-neutrality of public administration scholarship; academic scholarship could not ignore the real-life discord of poverty, unemployment, and disease during periods of economic growth that were affecting the lives of people and creating mistrust in government. The reaction to those events was the rise of a self-proclaimed new Public Administration, a movement with an intellectual commitment to social equity and democratization of public organizations. At the first…

Breaking the bargain, Donald Savoie explores the bargain between public servants, ministers, and parliament as they make up the administrative and political parts of Canadian governance. To be more precise, Savoie examines the “territory” between permanent and elected officials in bureaucracy and democracy within Canada (2003, p. 3). In terms of his thesis, Savoie’s central thesis is “the traditional bargain between politicians and public servants is coming unglued, and the space that was once…

The government is trying to promote volunteering works to the young society. Public service is way to improve the environment we live in by doing activities such as helping out the poor, cleaning the streets, and teaching one another. Since it is said that college students have alot of freetime, it should be required for college students to do complete various various public services. The U.S. should make it required for college students to do community services due to the lack of activities…