Chapters authored
Synergistic Governance and Public Policies Cycle
Public policies have been going through a transitional state in which conventional tools such as the “top-down” approach in the executive phase of public design have proven to be less effective. In an inherently uncertain and chaotic world, public administrations are assigned with the implementation of rules governing post-netaw public management expertise within a context that is ever-changing and which transcends what has been so far considered as “normality” in a hierarchical model. To create a viable environment, political leaders and civil servants engage in a struggle to manage uncertainties through existing networks and the relevant expertise of stakeholders. Moreover, nonconventional methods that are unfamiliar to the hierarchical (Weberian) state, such as heuristic judgments, the application of principles of the neuroscience behaviorist approach, and so forth, open up new road maps for public administration to enable organizations to act in a nonlinear and incrementalistic manner. In this chapter, it will be attempted to break down the new prospects that appear; this is a dynamic public administration, remodeled in an efficient manner catering to the needs of contemporary users. It is stressed that immediate, flexible forms of management must be established; the aim of this is to achieve a mutually accepted situation as has been recommended by experts and stakeholders, in order to be able to determine what may be a viable, provisional solution.
Part of the book: The Future of Public Administration