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Non-Western Public Administration

April 25, 2014 - April 26, 2014


Venue: Tallinn, Estonia

Organizer(s): The Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology and the journal "Administrative Culture" (formerly Halduskultuur – Administrative Culture)

Language: English

Contact: Veiko Lember, Managing Editor
Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology
Akadeemia 3, EE-12618 Tallinn, Estonia, e-mail: veiko.lember@ttu.ee
www.halduskultuur.eu

Info link: http://halduskultuur.eu/conference/index.php/HKAC/NWPA

Are there different paradigms of Public Administration (PA), rather than just one, and if yes, how might they look like and how might one judge their success? PA as a scholarly discipline generally assumes that there is one global PA, that good PA is just that in a successful form, and that modernization is bringing PA closer to it, but arguments are on the rise that all this is actually just Western PA – working well in the Western context, but not necessarily elsewhere. Thus, there might be other paradigms of PA as well – non-Western PA (NWPA) –, the most prominent ones today being the Confucian and the Islamic one, although the cohesiveness of the latter is much debated. This is not to say that there are no universal best PA practices, but the question is precisely about those that are only good PA in a specific context. The global-Western PA discourse and its practice being very strong, however, difference might today relate more to potentiality, legacy, and context. What makes this question especially relevant is that if modernization is not necessarily Westernization, countries which do not follow the global-Western model are not necessarily laggards but may rather pursue their own path towards good PA. In that case, policy recommendations (often linked to financial incentives) to move towards Western PA benchmarks might be not only misguided, but may turn out to be counterproductive.
This conference will also serve as a preparatory meeting both for the new NISPAcee panel and perhaps subsequent Working Group on “Islamic PA” and – tentatively – for a new IIAS Study Group on “Confucian PA”, which will be inaugurated at their organizations’ forthcoming annual conferences in May in Hungary and, if approved, in June in Morocco, respectively.