Anthony Parker
Annotated Bibliography
McGregor, Eugene B., and Richard F. Baker. "GREMEX - A Management Game for the New Public Administration." Public Administration Review 32.1 (1972): 24-32. Web.
This article by Eugene B. McGregor and Richard Baker is largely based around innovations in management specifically for the world-renowned organization NASA that has had great feats throughout history due to unique policies and a strong heir chary form the top to bottom that has enabled success. This involves teams of players who act as managers of a research and development project - the orbiting optical observatory - of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. During this exercise a computer and the referee-instructor together provide the realistic environment within which the team participants make their decisions affecting the course of the project. The article discusses the place of GREMEX in a tradition of games and simulations, and notes the similarities and differences between GREMEX and other management games currently in use for business training. Some of the actual decisions being made by the GREMEX teams are described to illustrate the nature of the exercise.
Mosher, Frederick C. "Public Administration Old and New: A Letter from Frederick C. Mosher." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: J-PART 2.2 (1992): 199-202. Web.
This article written by Fredrick C. Mosher is a unique comparison of the policies and ideals that have made up been apart of the make up of the institution. In the letter the author details how the simple title of calling the refined public administration “new” wasn’t the most appropriate because it represented an obvious improvement over the previous policies. The letter extensively outlined specific details about the refined administration that had been presented throughout a period of years. These policies and ideals represented unfrequented advancements that vastly improved public administration as a whole. This article not only hopes to make Perkins and other New Deal women visible, but more importantly it offers a fresh reading of the 1930s based on the care perspective implicit in the settlement ethos. Such a reading would provide a more complex and gender-inclusive view of the period than the familiar textbook narrative with its focus on government growth, executive reorganization, and the “principles approach” to management.
Page, Richard S. "A New Public Administration?" Public Administration Review 29.3 (1969): 303-04. Web.
Richard S. Page article is the tangible manifestation of conference that brought together students teachers and practitioners that are all around the same age relatively young. This combination of variables was meant to produce a unique effect that would produce a new fresh perspective on public administration that could only be produced by minds secluded from bias. The evaluation produced a unique set questions and answers that genuinely propelled the field. Public Administration Review has been the premier journal in the field of public administration research and theory for more than 75 years, and is the only journal in public administration that serves academics, practitioners, and students interested in the public sector and public sector management. Articles identify and analyze current trends, provide a factual basis for decision-making, stimulate discussion, and make the leading literature in the field available in an easily accessible format.
Riccucci, Norma M. "The "Old" Public Management versus the "New" Public Management: Where Does Public Administration Fit In?" Public Administration Review 61.2 (2001): 172-75. Web.
In this article by Norma M. Riccucci is effectively disagreeing with claims made by Larry Lynn’s piece “The myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm”. Her undeniable expertise in public administration, public management and advanced degrees give her an extremely credible platform to criticize Lynn’s article. She strongly disagrees with a number of Lynn’s claim and the fundamental claim that the students of public administration have not adequately challenged the New Public Management. She goes through the a list of grievances she has the have been addressed by the students are supposedly not handled in the new public management system. This study suggests that New Public Management drastically affects governmental production and delivery of the goods and services, by introducing many new concepts and propositions to the field of public administration. Nevertheless, it presents conflicting proposals and strikingly different juxtapositions.
Willbern, York. "Is the New Public Administration Still with Us?" Public Administration Review 33.4 (1973): 373-78. Web.
This excerpt written by York Willbern is a comprehensive review of the developments in public of some of the represent new and improved features of public administration. is an anti-positivist, anti-technical, and anti-hierarchical reaction against traditional public administration. A practiced theory in response to the ever-changing needs of the public and how institutions and administrations go about solving them these ideals are vividly portrayed in this detailed review but are faced with great friction from detractors of the old established system. This friction is constituted for a number of reasons one of which are the simple heirchary that has plagued the field of public administration. This is intimately divulged in this review and is very insightful about the things that are essential to facilitating the type of interactions that ultimately fuel positive actions.