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1 BIG QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN TURKEY PROF. DR. MUHİTTİN ACAR HACETTEPE U NIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION acar42@yahoo.com
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2 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...
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3 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...
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4 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
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5 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
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6 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?
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7 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
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8 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
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9 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
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10 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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11 THANKS!
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