Public Administration

Paper Summary:

This paper presents the author's personal view on public administrations. The author takes the view that dictatorships can never be successful and he gives examples from around the world to support his view. The paper concludes that until democratic governments are encouraged and allowed to be established without interference from other quarters, the authoritarian public administration will continue to flourish.

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Dictatorships Can Never Be Successful
Development of Public Administration
How the Other Half Lives

From the Paper:

"It would be a wonderful world if the public administration had evolved the same way throughout the world. We are in 21st century now and we have not reached a point where people in the so called developing countries could speak their mind and criticize the government or bureaucracy by pointing to mistakes of individuals for correcting the system. President Kim of North Korea or Middle East Kings or Emirs could do no wrong. The State machinery will make sure that person doing so is put behind bars, beaten up, arrested on fake or genuine charges. The Police, the public administration and even the judiciary would not tolerate criticism."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Riggs, F., Public Governance, June 2000, [Online] Retrieved on 23 March 2006, http://www2.hawaii.edu/~fredr/aladin.htm#tri
• Riggs, F. W., Modernity and Bureaucracy, Public Administration Review, Volume: 57. Issue: 4. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: 347+.
• UN Report ST/TCD/SER.E/27, Rethinking Public Administration-An Overview, [Online] Retrieved on 23 March 2006, http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan000455.pdf#search='History%20of%20Public%20Administration%20in%20Developing%20Countries

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