Stuart S. Nagel - Training Public Administrators Around the World:

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Edited by Stuart S. Nagel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Training public administrators around the world / edited by Stuart S. Nagel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1567202985 (alk. paper)
1. Public administrationStudy and teaching. 2. Public officersTraining of. I. Nagel,
Stuart S., 1934
JF1338.A2T73 2000
352.669 21dc21 99045494

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Copyright 2000 by Stuart S. Nagel

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ISBN: 1567202985

First published in 2000

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Copyright Acknowledgments

The editor and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission for use of the following material:

Quoted Excerpts and the Model of Administrative Capacity by Tung-Wen Sun and John J. Gargan from Determinants of Administrative Capacity: The Case of Taiwan, International Review of Administrative Sciences 59, pp. 277290 (1993). Used by permission of International Review of Administrative Sciences.

Figure by Lapido Adamolekun from Institutional Perspective on Africas Development Crisis, and quoted excerpts from Institutional Framework, The International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 516 (1990). Used by permission of The International Journal of Public Sector Management and MCB University Press.

Quoted Excerpts by Peter K. W. Fong from Training as an Instrument for Organizational Change in Public Administration, Handbook of Comparative Public Administration in the Asia-Pacific Basin, eds. Hoi-kwok Wong and Hon S. Chan (1999). Used by permission of Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.

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Dedicated to the public administration people
who shaped my awareness of the field,
including Chet Newland, Jack Rabin,
Herbert Simon, Dwight Waldo, Leonard White,
and Aaron Wildavsky

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Stuart S. Nagel

This volume deals with the important subject of training public administrators around the world. It is organized into sections on Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America. The key subjects in training public administrators are (1) the roles of ideology and technology, (2) personnel administration, and (3) financial administration. For each of these three controversial areas, the ideal solution might be one in which all major sides come out ahead of their best initial expectations. That is a winwin solution. We can now give a brief example for each of these three subjects.

The following points clarify the letters, numbers, and scoring used in the tables presented in this Introduction:

1. Symbols in these tables include C (conservative), L (liberal), N (neutral), S (super-optimum), 1 (group 1), and 2 (group 2).
2. The 1 to 5 scores showing relations between alternatives and goals have the following meanings: 5, the alternative is highly conducive to the goal; 4, mildly conducive; 3, neither conducive nor adverse; 2, mildly adverse; and 1, highly adverse.
3. The 1 to 3 scores showing the relative weights or multipliers for each goal have the following meanings: 3, this goal has relatively high importance to a certain ideological group; 2, relatively middling importance; and 1, relatively low but positive importance.
4. A single asterisk shows the winning alternative on the column before considering the super-optimum alternative. A double asterisk shows

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Table I.1 analyzes the problems of ideology versus technology in Chinese public administration. From the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China to about 1980, the emphasis was on ideology in evaluating alternative ways to implement government programs. That meant referring to Mao, Marx, and Lenin or interpreters of them. The result in personnel management was to emphasize hiring on the basis of ideological loyalty and party enthusiasm rather than technical skills. From about 1980, an increased emphasis was placed on knowledge of economics in administering a business program, engineering and physics in administering an energy program, or other substantive fields for other programs.