UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
PhD POLITICAL SCIENCE
FIRST SEMESTER, 2018-2019
POLI 707: FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS
Lecturer: Prof. Joseph R.A. 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.
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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
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Seminar
presentation by student
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15%
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Term
paper of 15 pages on student’s choice of topic
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15%
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Written
Examination
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70%
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Total
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100
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COURSE TOPICS AND READINGS
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)
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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).
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).
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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).
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).
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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.
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.
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).
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).
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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.
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).
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.
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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
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).
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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 Boafo-Arthur (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.
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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.
9. State Capacity, Productivity and Performance Management
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).
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.
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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).
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.)
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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.
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.
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).
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.
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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).
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.
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 cliff: Women in senior executive service”. Journal of
Public Administration Research and Theory. 2013. Available at:
http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/content/ early/2013/06/24/jopart.mut030.
N.O. Madichie, “Breaking the glass ceiling in Nigeria: A
review of women’s Entrepreneurship”.
Journal of African Business 10(1), 2009, pp. 51–66.
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M. Van Wart, “Public Sector Leadership: An Assessment”, Public Administration Review, 63(2),
March/April, 2003, pp. 214-228.
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
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UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLI 707: FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
SEMINAR TOPICS: FIRST SEMESTER
2018-2019 ACADEMIC YEAR
(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) The
post-colonial state in Africa has largely been ineffective and inefficient.
Discuss.
(6) Comment
on the view that the New Public Management has failed in Africa.
(7) What is
governance? What are its major features, forms, strengths and weaknesses?
(8)
What is leadership? What are its
features, principles, strengths and weaknesses and how can the weaknesses be
addressed?
(9)
What is public private
partnership? What are its strengths and weaknesses? Give examples to illustrate
your points.
(10)
Why is public service provision
and delivery difficult in African countries and what can be done to address
them?
(11)
Examine progress thus far made in
implementing effective public financial management (PFM) in Africa.
(12)
Why and how can performance
management improve productivity of staff in the public sector?
(13) How can human resources be managed and developed in the public sector?
Give examples to illustrate your points.
(14)
What is reform? What are its
features, strategies, strengths and weaknesses? Give examples to illustrate
your points.
(15)
Discuss the moral and ethical
dilemmas facing public servants in Africa. Illustrate your answer with concrete
examples.
(16) What
contribution, if any, has globalization made to the study of public
administration?
(17) Has the concept of gender enriched the study of the discipline of public
administration? Give examples to illustrate your points.
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(19) Define decentralization and local governance and explain why progress
made by most African countries to achieving their objectives may be described
as mixed.
(20) Why are
the concepts of accountability and transparency difficult to enforce in Africa?
(21)
Define corruption and discuss
some of the key strategies implemented in Africa to address the canker.
(22)
What is Emergency/Crisis/Disaster
Management? How relevant is the comprehensive approach to dealing with
emergency management in Africa particularly, Ghana?
(23)
What contribution, if any, has
Max Weber made to the study of bureaucracy? Illustrate your answer with
examples.
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