Review of Public Administration and Management

Eli Turkel

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  Public Value Theory: Reconciling Public Interests, Administrative Autonomy and Efficiency
  Author(s): Gerald Turkel and Eli TurkelGerald Turkel and Eli Turkel
  
  Public Value Theory aims at reinvigorating the role of publicly formed values in public administration theory and research. It attempts to reconcile the conceptual antagonisms between Traditional Public Administration that seeks to limit corruption and bring expertise to administration by establishing a more autonomous legal rational organization and New Public Management that focuses almost exclusively on sharply reducing public bureaucracy through measures and organizational practices based on economic efficiency. Rather than viewing these divergent approaches to public administration either as dichotomies or rejecting them, Public Value Theory recognizes the important dimensions of public administration that they raise and incorporates their most salient features in a more inclusive approach that emphasizes the role of values. This paper locates Public Value Theory in the historica.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2315-7844.1000189

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