DEPARTMENT OF
POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
PhD POLITICAL
SCIENCE
FIRST SEMESTER,
2021-2022 ACADEMIC YEAR
TIME: 10 AM – 12
NOON
POLI 707:
FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS
Lecturer: Prof. Joseph Atsu
Ayee
1. Course Description
The course familiarizes students with the concepts, theories
and emerging trends of Public Administration and Management. It also aims at
encouraging the students to apply the methods used by the
Administrators/Managers in the changed context.
The major topics of interest that will be
discussed include the politics of government bureaucracy, managing and leading
public organizations, the core functions of government administration such as
budgeting, public policy implementation and human resources management, and
current trends emerging from the 21st century that are directing and
influencing public administration.
2. Learning Objectives
The learning objectives of the course are at three levels,
namely, knowledge, skills and behaviour.
3. Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course therefore, students will be able
to:
•
Distinguish between the various theories,
concepts and emerging trends in public administration and management;
•
Understand the challenges posed by the changing
context of public administration;
•
Explore how relationships and decisions
influence public policies and programmes;
•
Learn the critical skills and tools public
administrators must master to be effective;
•
Explore the ethics and liabilities of public
administration, and what it means to take part; and
•
Identify the challenges to effective public
administration and strategies to address them.
4. Instructional Methodology
This class will use a seminar/workshop format and will meet
for three hours once a week. It will comprise a combination of lectures,
discussions, student presentations and term papers.
5. Evaluation
Seminar presentation by student 25%
Term paper of 2,500 words on student’s choice of topic 25%
Written Examination (2,500 words for each question) 50%
Total 100
COURSE TOPICS AND
READINGS
WEEK 1
1. Nature and Scope of
Public Administration: From Public Administration to New Public
Administration to Public Management
James, L. Perry and Robert K.
Christensen (eds.) (2015) Handbook of
Public Administration, 3rd edn. (New York: Jossey-Bass, 2015).
Brian R. Fry & Jos C.N.
Raadschelders Mastering Public
Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo. (London/Los Angeles: Sage,
2014).
H.A. Simon, V.A. Thompson & D.W. Smithburg, Public Administration (New
Brunswick/London: Transactions, 1991).
R. Basu, Public
Administration: Concepts and Theories, 5th edn. (New Delhi:
Sterling, 2004).
P. Collins
(ed.) Applying Public Administration in
Development: Guideposts to the Future (Chichester: Wiley, 2000).
J-E. Lane, The Public Sector: Concepts, Models and
Approaches (London: Sage, 1993).
R.B.
Denhardt, Public Administration: An
Action Orientation (Belmont, Wadsworth, 1993).
P. Dunleavy and C. Hood, “From Old Public Administration to
New Public Management”, Public Money and
Management, Vol 14(3) 1994: 9-16.
R. S.
Mukandala, African Public Administration:
A Reader (Harare: AAPS, 2000).
A.L. Verma, Public
Administration (New Delhi: Lotus Press, 2010)
K. Hanson,
G. Kararach & T.M. Shaw (eds.) Rethinking
Development Challenges for Public Policy: Insights from Contemporary Africa
(London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).
M. Roll
(ed.) The Politics of Public Sector
Performance: Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries (London/New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
D.E. Uwizeyimana & K. J. Maphunye, “The Changing Global
Public Administration and its
Theoretical and Practical Implications for Africa”, Journal of Public Administration and Policy
Research, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2014): 90-101.
D.F. Kettl & H.B. Milward, The State of Public Management (Baltimore/London: The Johns
Hopkins, 1996).
F. S. Lane, Current
Issues in Public Administration 5th edn. (New York: St Martins,
1994).
L.
Adamolekun (ed). Public Administration in
Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies. Ibadan: Evans Brothers,
2011).
B. Guy-Peters & J. Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration (London: Sage, 2012).
D.C. Menzel
& H.L. White (eds.) The State of
Public Administration: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. New York: M.E.
Sharpe, 2011).
P. Katsamumska, “Classical and Modern Approaches to Public
Administration”, Economic Alternatives,
Issue 1 (2012): 74-81.
M. Bhattacharya, New
Horizons of Public Administration (New Delhi: Jawashar, 2006).
L.K. Oyedele, “Theories of Public Administration: An
Anthology of Essays” International
Journal of Politics and Good Governance, Vol. VI, No. 6.3 Quarter III
(2015): 1-35.
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
WEEK 2
2. Political Context of Public
Administration: values of public administration (political, legal,
organizational and market values), the public interest; politicization;
partisanship and identities
James, L. Perry and Robert K.
Christensen (eds.) (2015) Handbook of
Public Administration, 3rd edn. (New York: Jossey-Bass, 2015).
Brian R. Fry & Jos C.N. Raadschelders Mastering Public Administration: From Max
Weber to Dwight Waldo. (London/Los Angeles: Sage, 2014).
B. Guy-Peters & J. Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration (London: Sage, 2012).
D.C. Menzel
& H.L. White (eds.) The State of
Public Administration: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. New York: M.E.
Sharpe, 2011).
L.
Adamolekun (ed). Public Administration in
Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies. Ibadan: Evans Brothers,
2011).
Frank Ohemeng, Barbara Carroll, Joseph R.A. Ayee and
Alexander Bilson Darku (eds.) The Public
Policy Making Process in Ghana: How Politicians and Civil Servants Deal with
Public Problems (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012), Chapter 2, pp.
19-51.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, “Politicians and Bureaucrats as Generators
of Public Policy in Ghana”, in Frank Ohemeng, Barbara Carroll, Joseph R.A. Ayee
and Alexander Bilson Darku (eds.) The Public
Policy Making Process in Ghana: How Politicians and Civil Servants Deal with
Public Problems (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012), Chapter 3, pp.
53-68.
J.R.A. Ayee, “Public Administrators under Democratic
Governance in Ghana”, International
Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 36, No. 6, 2013, pp. 440-452.
J.R.A. Ayee, “The Political
Economy of the Creation of Districts in Ghana”, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 48 No. 5, October 2013:
pp. 623-645.
M. Bhattacharya, New
Horizons of Public Administration (New Delhi: Jawashar, 2006).
L.K. Oyedele, “Theories of Public Administration: An
Anthology of Essays” International Journal of Politics and Good Governance,
Vol. VI, No. 6.3 Quarter III (2015): 1-35.
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
WEEK 3
3. Bureaucracy
James, L. Perry and Robert K.
Christensen (eds.) (2015) Handbook of
Public Administration, 3rd edn. (New York: Jossey-Bass, 2015).
Brian R. Fry & Jos C.N.
Raadschelders Mastering Public
Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo. (London/Los Angeles: Sage,
2014).
D.C. Menzel
& H.L. White (eds.) The State of
Public Administration: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. New
York/London: ME. Sharpe, 2011.
R. Basu, Public
Administration: Concepts and Theories, 5th edn. (New Delhi:
Sterling, 2004).
J-E. Lane, The Public Sector: Concepts, Models and
Approaches (London: Sage, 1993).
B. Guy-Peters & J. Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration (London: Sage, 2012).
M. Lipsky, Street- Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the
Individual in Public Services. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1980.
Malcom
Wallis, Bureaucracy: It Role in Third
World Development. London: MacMillan, 1989.
WEEK 4
4. Development and
Development Administration
R.K. Sapru, Development
Administration (New Delhi: Sterling, 1994).
J.R.A Ayee, “Reflections on Some Dynamics of Development:
Good Governance and Sustainable
Development Goals”, Ghana Social
Science Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2 (December 2016), Introduction to Special
Issue on “Good Governance and Sustainable Development Goals”.
J.R.A. Ayee, “The Developmental State Experiment in Africa:
The Experiences of Ghana and South Africa”, The
Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 102,
No. 3 June (2013): 259-280.
K. Hanson, C, D'Alessandro & F. Owusu (eds.) Managing
Africa’s Natural Resources: Capacities for Development (London: Palgrave
MacMillan, 2014).
S. Corbridge, Development
Studies: A Reader (New York: Arnold, 1995).
K. Hanson,
G. Kararach, & T.M. Shaw (eds.) Rethinking Development Challenges for Public
Policy: Insights from Contemporary Africa (London: Palgrave MacMillan,
2012).
Hanson, K., D'Alessandro, C. & Owusu, F. eds.
(2014). Managing Africa’s Natural Resources: Capacities for Development.
London: Palgrave MacMillan.
United
Nations, Millennium Development Goals,
2000-2015 (New York: UN, 2000).
United
Nations, General Assembly Resolution
70/1., 2015, Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development (New York: UN, 2015).
UNDP, Human Development Reports (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994-2016).
World Bank, World Development Reports. Oxford: Oxford
University Press (1978-2016).
Joseph R.A. Ayee and Emmanuel Debrah “Developmental Public
Administration and Policy in
Ghana: The State of the Art” in E. Debrah, E. Gyimah-Boadi,
A. Essuman-Johnson and K.A. Ninsin (eds.) Ghana:
Essays in the Study of Political Science
(Legon: University of Ghana, 2014), Chapter 10.
WEEK 5
5. New Public Management
James, L. Perry and Robert K.
Christensen (eds.) (2015) Handbook of
Public Administration, 3rd edn. (New York: Jossey-Bass, 2015).
Brian R. Fry & Jos C.N.
Raadschelders Mastering Public
Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo. (London/Los Angeles: Sage,
2014).
J. de Vries, “Is New
Public Management Really Dead?” OECD
Journal on Budgeting, Vol. 2010/1 (2010).
T. Gaebler and A. Miller, “Practical Public Administration:
A Response to Academic Critique of the Reinvention Trilogy”, Halduskultuur, Vol 7 (2006): 16-23.
K.R. Hope, Sr. “The New Public Management: Context and
Practice in Africa”, International Public
Management Journal 4, 2001, pp. 119-134.
N. Manning, “The Legacy of the New Public Management in
Developing Countries”, International
Review of Administrative Sciences, 67 (2001): 297-312.
Institute of Development Studies, An Upside-down View of Governance. Brighton: IDS, 2010.
J.R.A. Ayee, “Public Sector Management in Africa”, Economic Research Working Paper (African
Development Bank), No. 82, (November 2005): 1-60.
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
WEEK 6
6. Governance
J. Jreisat, “Governance: Issues in Concept and Practice”, in
D.C. Menzel & H.L. White (eds.) The
State of Public Administration: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. New
York/London: ME. Sharpe, 2011, Chapter 25, pp. 424-438.
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
B. Guy Peters, “Governance as Political Theory”, Jerusalem
Papers in Regulation and Governance, Working
Paper No. 22 August, 2010.
Y. Dror, The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club
of Rome (London: Frank Cass, 2002).
G. Hyden, “Governance and the Study of Politics” in G. Hyden
and M. Bratton (eds.) Governance and Politics in Africa.
Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner, 1992, Chapter 1: pp. 1-26.
G. Hyden and M. Bratton (eds.) Governance
and Politics in Africa. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner, 1992.
Gerry Stoker, “Governance in Theory: Five Propositions”,
Paris: UNESCO, 1998.
B. Levy, “Governance and Economic Development in Africa:
Meeting the Challenge of Capacity
Building” in Brian Levy & Sahr Kpundeh (eds.) Building State Capacity in Africa: New
Approaches, Emerging Lessons. Washington DC: World Bank, 2004, Chapter 1.
T.G. Weiss, “Governance, Good governance and Global
Governance: Conceptual and actual Challenge”, Third World Quarterly, 21, 5, October 2000.
J. Rosenau “Governance in the Twenty-First Century’, Global Governance, 1, 1, 1995.
V. Moharir, “Governance and Policy Analysis” in in Dele
Olowu and Soumana Sako (eds.) Better
Governance and Public Policy: Capacity Building and Democratic Renewal in
Africa. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian, 2002, Chapter 7.
M. Andrews, “The Good Governance Agenda: Beyond Indicators
without Theory”, Oxford Development
Studies, 36, 4, December 2008.
World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to
Sustainable Growth. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1989.
World Bank, Governance
and Development. Washington, DC:
World Bank, 1992.
World Bank, Governance:
The World Bank’s Experience. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994
WEEK 7
7. Leadership
Y. Dror, Avant-Garde
Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch (Washington, DC: Westphalia Press,
2014).
J.
Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
K.
Grint, (ed.) Leadership:
Classical, Contemporary and Critical Approaches (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000).
J.L. Pierce and J.W. Newstrom, Leaders and the Leadership Process. 4th edn. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006).
J.A. Raffel, P. Leisink & A.E. Middlebrooks, Public Sector Leadership: International
Challenges and Perspectives. (Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2009).
Baba G.
Jallow (ed.) Leadership in Post-colonial
Africa: Trends Transformed by Independence (London: Palgrave MacMillan,
2014).
B.J. Avolio, F.O. Walumbwa & T.J. Weber, “Leadership:
Current Theories, Research and Future Directions”, The Annual Review of Psychology, 60, (2009): 421-449.
W.J. Tettey, “Africa’s Leadership Deficit: Exploring
Pathways to Good Governance and Transformative Politics” in K.T. Hanson, G.
Kararach and T.M. Shaw (eds.) Rethinking
Development Challenges for Public Policy: Insights from Contemporary Africa
(London: Palgrave, 2012): Chapter 1: 18-53.
S.M. Makinda, “Africa’s Leadership Malaise and the Crisis of
Governance” in in K.T. Hanson, G. Kararach and T.M. Shaw (eds.) Rethinking Development Challenges for Public
Policy: Insights from Contemporary Africa (London: Palgrave, 2012): Chapter
4: 53-82.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, Leadership
in Contemporary Africa: An Exploratory Study, Occasional Papers, Academic
Series, No. 3. Amman, Jordan: United
Nations University Leadership Academy. December 2001, 140pp.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, “Leading Large States”, in Christopher
Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills (eds.) Big African States: Angola, Sudan, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South
Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press: Johannesburg, 2006, Chapter
11: 256-272.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, “A Decade of Political Leadership in
Ghana, 1993-2004”, in Kwame BoafoArthur (ed.) Ghana: One Decade of the Liberal State. New York/London: Zed
Books/CODESRIA, 2007, Chapter 7: 165-187.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, “Traditional and Modern Leadership in
Africa” in Takyiwaa Manuh and Esi Sutherland-Addy (eds.) Africa in Contemporary Perspective: A Textbook for Undergraduate Students.
Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2013, Chapter 9: 181-198.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, Leadership
and the Ghanaian State Today: Reflections and Perspectives. 46th
JB Danquah Memorial Lectures organized by the Ghana Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 25-27 February, 2013 at the British Council Hall, Accra. (Ghana
Academy of Arts and Sciences: Accra) forthcoming.
WEEK 8
8. Collaborative
Governance and Public Private Partnership
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
C. Ansell and A. Gash, “Collaborative Governance: Theory and
Practice”, Journal of Public
Administration Research and Practice, Vol 18: 543-571.
E. Sørensen & J. Torfing “Introduction Collaborative
Innovation in the Public Sector” The
Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Vol 17(1), 2012:
1-14.
R.C. Crook and J.R.A. Ayee “Urban Service Partnerships,
'Street level Bureaucrats' and Environmental Sanitation in Kumasi and Accra,
Ghana: Coping with Organisational Change in the Public Bureaucracy”, Development Policy Review, (on line) Vol.
24, No. 1 (2006): 51-73.
WEEK 8
9. State Capacity,
Productivity and Performance Management; Pockets of Excellence
M. Roll
(ed.) The Politics of Public Sector
Performance: Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries (London/New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
E. T. Jennings. “Best Practices in Public Administration:
How do we know them? How can we use them?” Administratie
si Management Public, Vol. 9 (2007): 73-80.
B. Levy and S. Kpundeh (eds.) Building State Capacity in Africa: New Approaches, Emerging Lesson.
Washington, DC.: World Bank, 2004).
K. Hanson, C, D'Alessandro & F. Owusu (eds.) Managing
Africa’s Natural Resources: Capacities for Development. London: Palgrave
MacMillan, 2014).
D. Leonard, ‘”Pockets’ of effective agencies in weak
governance states: Where are they likely and why does it matter? Public Administration and Development
Vol. 30(2) (2010): 91–101.
World Bank, World Bank Approach to Public Sector
Management 2011–2020: Better Results from Public Sector Institutions
(Washington DC: World Bank, 2012).
Joseph R.A.
Ayee, Book Review of Michael Roll (ed.) The
Politics of Public Sector Performance: Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing
Countries, (Palgrave Macmillan: London/New York, 2014) European Journal of Development Research (vol. 27, no. 2, 2014):
333-335.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, “Status of Natural Resources Management in
Africa: Capacity Development
Challenges and Opportunities” in Kobena Hanson, Cristina
D'Alessandro, Francis Owusu.
Managing Africa’s Natural Resources:
Capacities for Development (London: Palgrave MacMillan.2014), Chapter 2.
M.S. Grindle and M.E. Hilderbrand, “Building Sustainable
Capacity in the Public Sector: What can be done?, Public Administration and Development, 15(5) 1995: 441-463.
WEEK 9
10. Public Service
Provision and Delivery
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
B. W.Carroll and D. Siegel, Service in the Field: The World of Front-line Public Servants
(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1999).
J. Tendler, Good Government in the Tropics (Baltimore and
London: The Johns Hopkins, 1997).
R.C. Crook and Joseph R.A. Ayee “Urban Service Partnerships,
'Street level Bureaucrats' and Environmental Sanitation in Kumasi and Accra,
Ghana: Coping with Organisational Change in the Public Bureaucracy”, Development Policy Review, (on line)
Vol. 24, No. 1 (2006): pp. 51-73.
Joseph R.A. Ayee and R.C. Crook, “‘Toilet Wars’: Urban
Sanitation Services and the Politics of Public-Private Partnerships in Ghana”, Institute of Development Studies Working
Paper, No. 213, University of Sussex, UK, December 2003: 1-34.
World Bank, World Development Report 2004: Making
Services Work for Poor People (Washington DC: World Bank).
WEEK 9
11. Reform of and
Innovations in Public Administration
G. E. Caiden and P. Sundaram, “The Specificity of Public
Service Reform”, Public Administration
and Development, Vol 24: 373-383.
Y. Dror, The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club
of Rome (London: Frank Cass, 2002).
F. L.K. Ohemeng and J.R.A. Ayee “The ‘New Approach’ to
Public Sector Reforms in Ghana: A Case of Politics as Usual or a Genuine
Attempt at Reforms?” Development Policy
Review, ISSN: 1467-7679, Vol. 34,
No. 2 (2016): 277-300.
J.R.A. Ayee, “Public Sector Reform in Africa: A State-of-the-Art”. Commonwealth
Innovations Review, Vol. 21, No. 3 September (2015): 14-28.
J.R.A. Ayee, “The Developmental State Experiment in Africa:
The Experiences of Ghana and South Africa”, The
Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 102,
No. 3 June (2013): 259-280.
J.R.A. Ayee, “Improving the Effectiveness of the Public
Sector in Africa Through the Quality of Public Administration” in Kobena
Hanson, George Kararach and Timothy M. Shaw (eds.) Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy: Insights from
Contemporary Africa. London: Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2012), Chapter 3,
pp. 83-116.
J.R.A. Ayee, Reforming
the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospects, CODESRIA Green Book,
Dakar: CODESRIA, 2008), vii+175pp.
J.R.A. Ayee, “Public Sector Management in Africa”, Economic Research Working Paper (African
Development Bank), No. 82, (November 2005): 1-60.
J.R.A. Ayee, "Ghana" in Ladipo Adamolekun (ed.) Public Administration in Africa: Main Issues
and Selected Country Case Studies, 2nd edn. (Ibadan: Evans
Publishers, 2011), Chapter 15,
pp.355-387.
Joseph R.A. Ayee and J.T. Dickovick, “Ghana:
Decentralization in at Two-Party Democracy”, in J. Tyler Dickovick and James S.
Wunsch (eds.) Decentralization in Africa:
The Paradox of State Strength (Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner, 2014), Chapter
5: 91-112.
WEEK 10
12. Public Financial
Management
M. Andrews, “PFM in Africa: Where are we, how did we get
here, where should we go? – Lessons from recent PEFA data and World Bank Public
Financial Management Performance Reports”. Research study for Brookings Institution
and World Bank, 2008.
M. Andrews, “Isomorphism and the Limits to
African Public Financial Management Reform”, Faculty Research Working
Paper Series, (2009) Harvard Kennedy
School at http://web.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=340
(Accessed 2/3/2015).
M. Andrews, “How Far Have Public Financial
Management Reforms Come in Africa”, Harvard Kennedy School, Faculty
Research Working Paper Series (2010) at
http://web.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=548 (1/3/2015).
D. Brautigam, O-H Fjeldstad and M. Moore (eds.) Taxation and State-Building in Developing
Countries: Capacity and Consent (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008).
M. Cangiano, T. Curristine & M. Lazare (eds.) Public Financial Management and its Emerging
Architecture. Washington, DC: IMF., 2013).
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
(CIPFA) Public Financial Management: A
Whole System Approach (volumes 1and 2) (London: CIPFA, 2010).
S. Fritz, S. Sweet & M. Verhoeven, “Strengthening Public
Financial Management: Exploring Drivers and Effects”, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7084 (2014): 1-53.
D.J. Fourie, “Technical Budgeting Problems in Anglophone
African Countries”, African Journal of
Public Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 1 (March 2016): 70-85.
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
WEEK 10
13. Human Resources
Management and Development
N.M. Riccucci, “Human Resources Management: Current and
Future Challenges”, in D.C. Menzel
& H.L.
White (eds.) The State of Public
Administration: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities (New York/London: M.E.
Sharpe, 2011), Chapter 8.
S.C. Selden, “Innovations and Global Trends in Human
Resource Management Practices”, in B. Guy Peters and J. Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration.
(London: Sage, 2007), Chapter 3.
J.R. Thompson, “Labour Management Relations and
Partnerships: Were They Reinvented? in B. Guy Peters and J. Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration.
(London: Sage, 2007), Chapter 4.
D. Olowu and L. Adamolekun, “Human Resources Management” in
L. Adamolekun (ed.) Public Administration
in Africa. (Ibadan: Evans Brothers, 2011), Chapter 7.
R.S. Dwivedi, A
Textbook of Human Resource Management. (New Delhi: Vikas, 2007).
Joseph R.A. Ayee, “The Politics of Pay Reforms in Ghana”, Journal of African Political Economy and
Development, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (December 2016), pp. 4-25.
WEEK 11
14. Ethics and
Morality
B. Guy-Peters & J. Pierre (eds.) The Handbook of Public Administration (London: Sage, 2012).
D.C. Menzel
& H.L. White (eds.) The State of
Public Administration: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. New York: M.E.
Sharpe, 2011).
L.
Adamolekun (ed). Public Administration in
Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies. Ibadan: Evans Brothers,
2011).
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
Joseph R.A. Ayee, "A Code of Conduct for Public
Officials: The Ghanaian Experience, 1992-96" International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 63, No. 3
(September 1997): 369-375.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, Public Service in Africa: Ethics, in
United Nations, African Public Service:
New Challenges, Professionalism and Ethics ST/ESA/PAD/SER.E.20. (New York:
United Nations, 2000): 65-72.
S.N. Woode, Values, Standards and Practices in Ghanaian
Organizational Life (Accra: Asempa, 1997).
S.N. Woode, Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Temptations:
Cases in Administration (Accra: Asempa, 1998).
S.N. Woode, Ethics in Business and Public
Administration: Introductory Essays and Cases (Accra: Presbyterian Press,
2000).
S.N. Woode, Living the Values and Ethics of Public
Service (Accra: Asempa, 2013).
WEEK 11
15. Globalization
Yilin Hou et.al. “The Case for Public Administration with a
Global Perspective”, Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 21 (January 2011): i45-i51.
D.E. Uwizeyimana & K. J. Maphunye, “The Changing Global
Public Administration and its Theoretical and Practical Implications for
Africa”, Journal of Public Administration
and Policy Research, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2014): 90-101.
J. Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
C-K. Kim, “Public Administration in the Age of
Globalization”, International Public
Management Review, Vol 9(1) 2008: 39-54.
A. Farazmand, “Globalization and Public Administration”, Public Administration Review, Vol. 59(6)
November/December 1999: 509-522.
WEEK 12
16. Gender
M.J. D’Agostino & H. Levine, Women in Public Administration: Theory and Practice (Sudbury, MA:
Jones & Bartlett, 2011).
N.K. Weidenfeller, “Breaking through the glass wall: the
experience of being a woman enterprise leader”.Human Resource Development International 15(3), 2012: 365–374.
M. Sbaharwal “From glass ceiling to glass
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N.O. Madichie,
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M. Van Wart, “Public Sector Leadership: An Assessment”, Public Administration Review, 63(2),
March/April, 2003, pp. 214-228.
WEEK 13
17. E-governance;
E-government; and E-democracy
Andreasson,
K. (ed.) Digital Divides: The New
Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion. Florida: CRC Press, 2015.
J.
Itika, K. de Rider & A. Tollenaar (eds.) Theories and Stories in African Public
Administration (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2011).
J.E. Awotwi & G. Owusu,
“Ghana Community Information Centers (CiCs): E-governance Success or
Mirage?” Journal of E-Governance, 33(3) 2010: 157–167.
F. Ohemeng and K. Ofosu-Adarkwa, “Promoting Transparency and
Strengthening Public Trust in
Government through Information Communication Technologies?:
A Study of Ghana’s Egovernance Initiative”.
International Journal of Public
Administration in the Digital Age, 1(2), April-June: 25-42.
Ojo, J.S. (2014). E-governance: an imperative for
sustainable grass root development in Nigeria, Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research, 6(4): 72-89.
Otenyo, E.
E., & Lind, N.S (2011). E-Government:
The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Administration.
New York: Teneo Press.
Joseph R.A. Ayee, “E-governance and Public Policy Making at
the Local Level in Ghana”. Paper presented at a Symposium on “Using E-platform
for Knowledge and Information Dissemination” at the 66th Annual New
Year School under the theme “Improving at the Performance of the Local
Government System in the era of E-Governance” at the University of Ghana, Legon
on 8th January, 2015.
WEEK 13
18. Disaster
Management
Damon Coppola, Introduction
to International Disaster Management 3edn. London: ButterworthHeinemann,
2015.
Jack Pinkowski, Disaster
Management Handbook, Boca Raton, CRC Press, 2008.
Jeffrey B.
Bumgarner, Emergency Management: A
Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) New York: ABC-CLIO, 2008.
D.C. Menzel
& H.L. White (eds.) The State of
Public Administration: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. New
York/London: ME. Sharpe, 2011.
SEMINAR TOPICS
(1) What
is public administration? What are its features, strengths and weaknesses?
(2) Examine
the major approaches to the study of public administration.
(3) Is
there a difference between public administration, new public administration and
public management? Illustrate your answer with concrete examples.
(4) Examine
the key values of public administration and how they have proved difficult to
implement in African countries.
(5) What
contribution, if any, has Max Weber made to the study of bureaucracy?
Illustrate your answer with examples.
(6) The
post-colonial state in Africa has largely been ineffective and inefficient.
Discuss.
(7) Comment
on the view that the New Public Management has failed in Africa.
(8) What
is governance? What are its major features, forms, strengths and weaknesses?
(9) What
is leadership? What are its features, principles, strengths and weaknesses and
how can the weaknesses be addressed?
(10) What
is public private partnership? What are its strengths and weaknesses? Give
examples to illustrate your points.
(11) Why
is public service provision and delivery difficult in African countries and
what can be done to address them?
(12) Examine
progress thus far made in implementing effective public financial management
(PFM) in Africa.
(13) Why
and how can performance management improve productivity of staff in the public
sector?
(14) Examine
pay reforms in the public sector in Ghana.
(15) How
can human resources be managed and developed in the public sector? Give
examples to illustrate your points.
(16) What
is reform? What are its features, strategies, strengths and weaknesses? Give
examples to illustrate your points.
(17) Discuss
the moral and ethical dilemmas facing public servants in Africa. Illustrate
your answer with concrete examples.
(18) What
contribution, if any, has globalization made to the study of public
administration?
(19) Has
the concept of gender enriched the study of the discipline of public
administration? Give examples to illustrate your points.
(20) Compare
and contrast e-governance and e-government.
(21) Define
decentralization and local governance and explain why progress made by most
African countries to achieving their objectives may be described as mixed.
(22) Why
are the concepts of accountability and transparency difficult to enforce in
Africa?
(23) Define
corruption and discuss some of the key strategies implemented in Africa to
address the canker.
(24) What
is Emergency/Crisis/Disaster Management? How relevant is the comprehensive
approach to dealing with emergency management in Africa particularly,
Ghana?
