Public Administration: special contemporary problems and challenges

ISBN-13: 9783659758836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 300 str.

Marume Samson Brown Muchineripi

Opis

Public Administration: special contemporary problems and challenges; opportunities and prospects; and status of theories, methods and approaches which is my contribution, is designed to: illustrate issues social scientists face; show simultaneously the boundless opportunities the discipline offers; and present the status of theories, methods and approaches. In sum, the basically descriptive-analytical study shows three points that: (a) Public Administration has been reluctantly accepted as discipline owing to its heavy methodological dependence on other sciences and its use of an eclectic approach; (b) the usefulness of terminological applications and semasiological analyses proves that poor terminology has been responsible for the exasperating semantical confusion surrounding the vexing question of whether public administration is a discipline and bewildering methodological and epistemological manifestations in the social sciences; and (c) most importantly, the three main concepts of theories, methods and approaches commonly used in the literature but hugely ill-defined, are examined separately for purposes of clarity and systematic analysis.

O autorze

Samson Brown Muchineripi Marume, affectionately known as Sam Marume by his colleagues, is a Zimbabwean African, born in Chikomba District, near Sadza, Chivhu, close to Kwenda Mission, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. After attending schools at Mungurawu and Chisangano for his early education between 1952 and 1956; and upper primary education at Mutasa