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PIA 3090

PIA 3090. Comparative Public Administration. Presentations. 1. Golden Oldies 2. Literary Map 3. Grand Synthesis. The Issues. Recruitment, Education and Training. Focus: Entry into Public Sector. Patterns of Recruitment- How the Bureaucracy is Selected?. Every Man a King.

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PIA 3090

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  1. PIA 3090 Comparative Public Administration

  2. Presentations 1. Golden Oldies 2. Literary Map 3. Grand Synthesis

  3. The Issues Recruitment, Education and Training

  4. Focus:Entry into Public Sector Patterns of Recruitment- How the Bureaucracy is Selected?

  5. Every Man a King

  6. Three Models of Recruitment 1. Model of merit system- Career appointments, competitive examinations, and an end to patronage 2. The recruitment of professionals and specialists contradicts with the issue of political control 3. Representation- especially majority representation relates to political accountability

  7. 4. Crisis Recruitment: War or Panic (U.K.)

  8. Mini-Discussion What is the best way to recruit? Political Merit Representation

  9. Recruitment Problems a. Management, eg. the Department, or the unit, often does not control recruitment b. Legislation sets the rules- merit system with civil service commission overseeing the process c. Commissions or personnel unit act as an intermediary Blocking Decisions

  10. Recruitment in Guyana (South America)

  11. Human Resource Development 1. The Key to Merit 2. Issue:the difference between Education and Training 3. Professional vs. Management

  12. Training Education The Difference

  13. Debate about the Ideal of Open (not closed) system- • Importance of "Professional Class” • Role of Professional Schools in producing that class. • U.S model of open System

  14. Closed vs. Open Systems: Age Equals Access to Jobs

  15. Early, middle or late entry Deep political control and The possibility of "in and out" The U.S. System

  16. TEN MINUTE BREAK

  17. European Systems- Inherited by Much of World 1. Historically closed 2. Class based and 3. Limited to early entry

  18. Arthur Boyd(1920 - 1999)’S Painting:The Half Caste Child

  19. Differences in Closed Classes • Differences in Closed Classes- • administrative • professional • Executive • Technical • Clerical • Industrial • Differing views of technical skills, law and classical education

  20. Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) Picture Taken in 1844.

  21. Armstrong's Classification • Maximum Deferred Achievement-equitable (French revolutionary and Soviet ideal, and Jacksonian Democracy- Late Decision) • Maximum Ascriptive- Western European model • Progressive Equal Attrition- Fail out over time U.S. and Soviet reality and aspects of Post War German system. Partly open. Fairness depends on lateral entry (in and out)

  22. Monday, March 12, 2007(French General Elections The European choice and the elites - a la' mode Française Cézanne, “Still life with skull”

  23. The Debate about Affirmative Action: Primary Debates • U.S. - Race and Gender • Europe- Culture and Religion • South Africa: Ethnicity • Asia: Language

  24. Recruitment: A Scandinavian Perspective

  25. Territorial Administration • Issue: use of Prefects for control: Geographic Administrators- appointed from the Center. Eg. Governors in Putin’s Russia • Integrated vs. Un-integrated • Territorial vs. Function

  26. The French Prefet

  27. Top Administrators • a. U.K.- Oxbridge Generalist • b. Russia- Engineers • c. France- Legal/Technical • d. Germany/Scandinavia- Legalist • e. U.S.- Products of policy Schools: Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, Syracuse

  28. A Reflection of the U.S. Model: In Theory if and Sometimes in Practice

  29. Concept of training Public Administration- skills analogy- business administration and engineering as models Unique U.S. contribution- American system internationalized from the 1950s by Foreign Aid

  30. Unique U.S. Contribution, Cont. • Deep political penetration- note surprise in South Africa • Open system- Concept of representative bureaucracy

  31. Unique U.S. Contribution, Cont.

  32. Question/Discussion What form of bureaucratic recruitment is used in each of your “favorite” countries?

  33. The Comarison

  34. Comprehensive Question of the Day Armstrong's argument that education and training are critical variables in understanding "development" strategies in Western Europe and Soviet Union. Discuss. Apply them to at least one other region of the world.

  35. The Only Game in Town

  36. A Second Question It has been said that in terms of public sector reform, education and recruitment issues are the "only game in town." Defend or critique. How does recruitment relate to representation vs. merit issues?

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