PPAS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Non-Governmental Organization, Public Choice, Soft Skills

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 1110
• Professor: Daniel Cohn

Document Summary

The structure of public bureaucracies as described by the weberian model, which has served. Western liberal capitalist democracies well for many years, is increasingly unsuited for the work that public administrators are being called on to do. The response by the leaders of public bureaucracies has been mostly ad hoc rather than informed by a theory of what a new structure should look like. This has had negative consequences for both efficiency and accountability (remember the two big goals of organizational design) Efficiency and accountability key to run organizations. Rules over cabinet rather than work w/ it. Cabinet become employees rather than cabinet ministers. One key problem is that the sort of issues public administration must deal with today increasingly do not fit into nice little ministerial or departmental silos. They require coordinated responses by agencies and units accountable to different political appointee (ministers in canada)