Making public administration academic

The Academic/Practitioner Interface in Public Administration in South Africa

A positive engagement between practitioners and academics is vital to maintaining and developing a vibrant theory and practice of public administration in South Africa. A robust dialogue between these two spheres provides a space in which to explore the limitations of practice and develop new approaches and theories to the challenges of public provisioning. It also ensures that the stories, pro...

Institutional Requirements for Academic Research in Public Administration

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Ethics in Public Administration

The modern world has seen an increase in interest in the areas related to the ethics of the sovereign good. A number of studies have focused on this subject matter and several academicians have exposed a number of ethical and philosophical dilemmas related to the concept of ethics in public administration. Despite the increasing number of studies that have focused on the importance of administr...

Modelling Public Administration Portals

Portals for the public administration (PA) are Internet gateways leading to a broad range of services, devoted to a great number of users. The offered services can potentially be all the ones offered by the PA offices. The final users involved are potentially all the citizens, thus ranging from young people to retired ones, to impaired ones. The benefits offered by putting PA services on the In...

Insights – Public Administration