Trying to Save the Garden: What if “Rat Choice” Hadn’t Invaded Public Policy and Public Administration? A Public Administration Satire

The Public Administration of Politics, or What Political Science Could Learn from 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

Using public administration theory to analyze public innovation

The study of innovation associated with ICT has been strong on the agenda of academics for many years. This focus can be seen as a response to the continuous effort of practitioners in public administration to innovate both public organizations and policies through the use of information and communication technologies. Such innovations offer the prospect of improving public administration witho...