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BIG QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN TURKEY PROF. DR. MUHİTTİN ACAR HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION acar42@yahoo.com. PLAN. Background Info about the Debate Original Questions (Acar & Öztaş, 2000) Second/Turkish Version (Acar & Öztaş, 2005)
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BIG QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN TURKEYPROF. DR. MUHİTTİN ACARHACETTEPEUNIVERSITYDEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONacar42@yahoo.com
PLAN • Background Info about the Debate • Original Questions (Acar & Öztaş, 2000) • Second/Turkish Version (Acar & Öztaş, 2005) • The Third/Updated List of Big Questions • Q & A, C & C ...
THE DEBATE Robert D. BEHN, PAR Article (1995) Idendity & Scientific Status of the Discipline Methodological Concerns vs. Big Issues Identifying & Debating the Field’s BQs Expansion of the Debate ...
PUTTING THE DEBATE INTO PERSPECTIVE • Inquiry & Interest Should Take Presedence over Methodological Concerns • A Framework, not a New Methodology • PA in a Democracy, not just POs & PMs • PA as Science, Art & Craft • Comparative & Contextualized Perspectives
BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2000)-1 Accountability Administrative Action & Achievement through Accountability Bureaucracy Bipartisan Brokers, or Besieged Blame-takers ? Change Change through Consensus and Compassion Decentralization Development through Decentralization and Democratization
BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2000)-2 • Education Enabling through Education, Experience and Ethics • Fault Lines Founding Fathers, Freedom, and Fragmentation • Globalization Gatekeepers Guide into Global?
BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2000)-3 • History From Habits of the Heart to Horizons of Hope? • Idendity Interplay of Ideals, Ideologies, and Interests • Justice Journey of Hope
BIG QUESTIONS OF A PA SCHOLAR Public Administration as Praxis - ‘Reflective Practitioners’ - ‘Pracademics’ - ‘Prosumers’ Public Administration as a Balancing Art - Prioritizing: Research vs. Education vs. Service - Pondering: Local-National Issues vs. Global Trends - Planning: Short-term vs. Medium-term vs. Long-term - Performing: Individual vs. Institutional vs. International
BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2013) Pluralized vs. Polarized Polity & Politics Justice for All vs. Palatial, Palliative & Politicized Acc. De-constructing Demo-cratization & De-centralization De-composing Cryony Capitalism & Corruption Coping with Crisis, Chaos & Complexity
CORE ISSUES OF PA IN TR(2013) Common Concerns,Communities & Consensus Coalition of the Clean, Competent & Competitive Coordinative & Collaborative Capacity Credibility Creativity
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