English Teaching for Public Administration Students

This article is devoted to English teaching for public administration students in Russia at the International Market Institute, Samara region. The significance of this issue comes from the accepted new ＂Strategy of Innovative Development of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2020＂, which emphasizes the necessity for the public servant to have a command of foreign language relevant working materials. Important outcomes are for Russian students The article reveals original working techniques, creation of given as results for successful transition to academic mobility     

Theoretical Developments in Public Administration: Implications for the Study of Federalism

The perspective of public administration potentially carries great relevance for the development of theory concerning federal systems. However, the impact of each specialty on the other has often been uneven. Reasons for this state of affairs are explored. Some recent and current research on public administration is highlighted for its implications regarding the study of federalism.     

The Supreme Court's New Constitutional Federalism: Implications for Public Administration

Since the early 1990s, the Supreme Court has been issuing decisions that, taken together, constitute a new judicial federalism. This effort is rearranging intergovernmental relations as we have known them for several decades. However, the boundaries of this new doctrine and its implications for public administration are not well understood. This article analyzes the principal constitutional bases for the Court's actions and gauges the balance of this new judicial federalism. It then sorts out the implications for public administration and projects where the Court may be going with this doctrine in the future.     

A Paradigm Shift? Employee Relations in the Victorian Public Service Since 1992

When Jeff Kennett was swept into office on 3 October 1992, one of his first priorities was to reform the Victorian public sector as one part of his broad strategy to get 'Victoria on the Move'. Without losing much time, and with very little community or parliamentary debate, both the Public Sector Management Act 1992 (Vic) and the Employee Relations Act 1992 (Vic) were passed. These pieces of legislation have been the main instruments to regulate terms and conditions of employment for employees in the Victorian public service. Changes to the legislation will be examined in this paper and discussed in the context of whether a paradigm shift has occurred in managing employee relations in the Victorian public service.     

Paradigm Lost: Public Administration at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-96

Between 1884 and 1896, Herbert Baxter Adams, James Bryce, Richard Ely, Albert Shaw, and Woodrow Wilson, participated in one of the first attempts to build a curriculum specifically aimed at educating American public servants. Their approach to curriculum development did not concentrate on government structure or management skills, but on politics, economics, history, law, and ethics. Their efforts reflected a need to justify local administration, public service, and active government in legal, moral, historical, philosophical, and practical terms. More than 100 years later, their efforts seem both awkwardly archaic and curiously relevant.     

From Statism To Federalism: A Paradigm Shift

Since the end of World War II and most particularly since thelate 1970s, the world has been in the midst of a paradigm shiftfrom a world of states modeled after the idea of the nation-statedeveloped in the seventeenth century to a world of diminishedstate sovereignty and increasingly constitutionalized interstatelinkages of a federal character. This paradigm shift has beennoted by students of federalism and international relationsboth. It has been most strongly manifested in the economic sphere.Worldwide and regional economic arrangements have become essentialto the peace and prosperity of the world and, while formallyvoluntary, no state can remain outside of the increasingly moredemanding economic networks. Thus, those networks have acquiredan increasingly confederal dimension. Foremost among them isthat of Western Europe which, since the Maastricht Treaty, hasbeen transformed into a confederation in fact if not in name.Other arrangements approach the European Union in varying degrees.In this new paradigm, existing states will not disappear; rather,they will be overlaid by a variety of federal arrangements ofa confederal character that will tie them ever closer to eachother.     

The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm: What Traditional Public Administration Really Stood For

For a decade, public administration and management literature has featured a riveting story: the transformation of the field's orientation from an old paradigm to a new one. While many doubt claims concerning a new paradigm—a New Public Management—few question that there was an old one. An ingrained and narrowly focused pattern of thought, a bureaucratic paradigm, is routinely attributed to public administration's traditional literature. A careful reading of that literature reveals, however, that the bureaucratic paradigm is, at best, a caricature and, at worst, a demonstrable distortion of traditional thought that exhibited far more respect for law, politics, citizens, and values than the new, customer-oriented managerialism and its variants. Public administration as a profession, having let lapse the moral and intellectual authority conferred by its own traditions, mounts an unduly weak challenge to the superficial thinking and easy answers of the many new paradigms of governance and public service. As a result, literature and discourse too often lack the recognition that reformers of institutions and civic philosophies must show how the capacity to effect public purposes and accountability to the polity will be enhanced in a manner that comports with our Constitution and our republican institutions.     

知识经济条件下公共行政范式的危机与变革

官僚制范式适应了 1 9世纪以来大工业生产对政府职能和效能所提出的要求 ,成为 1 0 0年来公共行政的主导范式。知识经济的兴起 ,使官僚制范式的内在局限性和不适应性暴露出来 ,公共行政范式的危机表现出来 ,公共行政范式处于变革时期。本文尝试从五种行政改革模式讨论对官僚制范式的调整 ,这些改革模式与实践通过放松官僚制范式的基本原则 ,局部缓和了范式危机 ,但并没有实现公共行政范式由官僚制向民主制的转变     

Crises and Paradigm Shift: A Response to Critics

International financial and regulatory reform continues in 2014, building upon the burst of crisis‐induced institutional and regulatory reforms begun in 2008. In particular, the Financial Stability Board is an element and an agent of reform and this paradigm shift. The leap taken was and remains a predominantly technocratic central banking macroprudential narrative and process, controlled by this elite epistemic community. As the new regulatory normal evolves in 2014, it now does so at a slower pace, as the crisis appears to abate. Today elements of paradigm defence, maintenance and resilience are seen.     

Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology

Behavioral public administration is the analysis of public administration from the micro‐level perspective of individual behavior and attitudes by drawing on insights from psychology on the behavior of individuals and groups. The authors discuss how scholars in public administration currently draw on theories and methods from psychology and related fields and point to research in public administration that could benefit from further integration. An analysis of public administration topics through a psychological lens can be useful to confirm, add nuance to, or extend classical public administration theories. As such, behavioral public administration complements traditional public administration. Furthermore, it could be a two‐way street for psychologists who want to test the external validity of their theories in a political‐administrative setting. Finally, four principles are proposed to narrow the gap between public administration and psychology.     

Book Reviews: Values for Public Administration Renewal

Books reviewed:
Richard Stillman II, Creating the American State: The Moral Reformers and the Modern Administrative World They Made .
Camilla Stivers, Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era .
David H. Rosenbloom, Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State—1946–1999 .     

公共领域理论范式之学术论证

公共领域理论范式之所以是成立的,是因为它具有自己的学术独立性:不仅公共领域及其观念源远流长,具有自己相对独立的历史演变过程;而且现代公共领域理论也有自己相对独立的理论内容和学术发展逻辑;同时,公共领域概念本身也具有独立于市民社会和政治国家的理论规定性.因此,把公共领域问题从市民社会理论中离析出来作为一个独立的理论话语加以专题性研究,具有多方面的理论价值和实践意义.     

A New Cosmology of Risks and Crises: Time for a Radical Shift in Paradigm and Practice

Crises in the twenty-first century differ—structurally—from those we had to deal with in the last century. Crises of the twentieth century were traditionally defined and handled as a combination of "threat, urgency, and uncertainty." Today, crises are better described in terms of a destruction of vital references and a dynamic of systemic implosions. If crises were once a type of severe, dynamic accident, they are now the essential mode of life in our hypercomplex systems. These transboundary crises mark a watershed between mind-sets and tools of the past, and the new strategic landscape that we are now in. The intellectual and governance challenges are extreme. But looking back is not an option. It is vital to forge new routes into Terrae Incognitae . The goal of this article is to help build (1) a renewed understanding of the emerging challenges we face; and (2) a better strategic response to these systemic dislocations.     

Public Management and Administration: a Need for Evolution

Recently, British public management has relied too much on private sector approaches suited to market‐facing situations, to the detriment of systems based on a realistic estimate of the special nature of public business, and its needs for economy and co‐ordination. Accountability processes have suffered from over‐simplification (targetry) and from a gross multiplication of mechanisms focusing on individual error, as opposed to ensuring intelligent assessment of business results. There has been an over‐emphasis on management of inputs and outputs, as opposed to systems gearing the result‐producing mechanisms to means for policy formation and co‐ordination of effort. We need now to re‐think and define properly the systems whereby ministers are advised, account is rendered, resources are allocated and effort is co‐ordinated—and the qualifications of the relevant actors. Suggestions are made to these ends.     

西方教师知识观视域下的外语教师专业发展

教师知识观的实践转向对教师专业发展范式具有重要影响。外语教师专业发展要有机融合教师知识的不同认识论,以教师赋权增能为旨归,以建构教师实践性知识为核心,提升教师的专业话语权。构建基于开放平台的、以经验的共享和知识的传递为归宿的专业发展环境,提升教师专业群体的自我认同。