Constructing a new public administration in Africa: Reflections on philosophical clarity and the process-orientation turn
LGA Amoah - Administrative Theory & Praxis, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Western public administration as a discipline and practice has been foisted on Africa. In its
evolutionary trajectory, the dominant narratives of public administration tend to assume a
totalizing, universalistic, nomothetic posture as they both undermine and ignore other
worldviews. In Africa the upshot has been public policy that scarcely responds robustly to the
continent's" wicked problems." While the dominant corpus of Western public administration
has seemingly evolved over time, its ontological underpinnings, securely strapped to …
evolutionary trajectory, the dominant narratives of public administration tend to assume a
totalizing, universalistic, nomothetic posture as they both undermine and ignore other
worldviews. In Africa the upshot has been public policy that scarcely responds robustly to the
continent's" wicked problems." While the dominant corpus of Western public administration
has seemingly evolved over time, its ontological underpinnings, securely strapped to …
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