Toward a New Public Administration

H. George Frederickson's Toward a New Public Administration is an article that explores the definition of public administration and the role of public administrators. Some significant themes within the piece include roles and strategies towards achieving social good. The considered themes establish the article as bold, timeless, and insightful.

H. George Frederickson's Toward a New Public Administration explains that public administration threads entail representatives, neutral political competence, and executive leadership as significant components. The author believes that public administrators should strive for efficiency and social equity by working for change to issue reforms to a system set to discriminate against minorities equipped with vast disadvantages. The book expresses the need for public administrators to avoid neutrality and instead commit to social good issuing public administrators a significant role in assisting oppressed citizens. The article challenged public administrators to factor in alternative solutions and strategies to handle the issue at hand. It underplayed the "public" component regarding public administration focusing on elements aligned to institutional, departmental, or agency and significantly held attributes such as using an equity lens to distribute goods and services to the public, reducing hierarchy in government and integrating systems, and instituting bottom-up decision-making by increasingly factoring input from those affected by a policy. Therefore, the author generally argued social equity as the supreme objective for public administration.

H. George Frederickson's Toward a New Public Administration significant themes such as the role of public administration and methodology of achieving social good illicit controversy given the change to the historical definitions of public administration. According to Moynihan (2018), public administration is "a field in which leaders serve communities to advance the common good and effect positive change." Public administration professionals "have skills to manage at government levels (local, state, and federal) and nonprofit organizations with skills employed across the field such as project management and program management often transferrable to the private sector" (Walker et al., 2019). As mentioned earlier, Frederickson's article underplays elements aligned to institutional, departmental, or agency. Instead, it issues significance to equity as the lens for delivering goods and services to the public by public administrators. The author's article's central theme regards public administration's role, which alters the historical definition. Furthermore, Frederickson's article emphasizes public administrators to avoid neutrality in their commitment to social good. The suggestion goes against Woodrow Wilson's theory that emphasizes neutrality for public administrators (Sarker et al., 2018). Therefore, the theme of the methodology behind achieving social good equally altered historical definitions of public administrators, with the alterations eliciting controversy.

The piece is bold and insightful, with significant significance transcending to the contemporary era by the themes within George Frederickson's Toward a New Public Administration, altering historical definitions of public administration and eliciting controversy. The author used a constructive way to emphasize the importance of public administrators working for the public. The themes that display a turnaround from pre-existing definitions of public administration exhibit boldness in drawing back politics in the role of public administration. Indeed, the considered matters by the author warrant the ideology of a "New Public Administration." The author encouraged public administrators to avoid being neutral in discharging their duties to society, which advocates for them to take political risks. The article triggers further talks concerning public administrators' role in our community, establishing it as timeless with relevance in the contemporary space. Therefore, Frederickson's is an insightful read with the explored themes exemplifying boldness and timelessness.

H. George Frederickson's Toward a New Public Administration is bold as it reconstructs the historical definition of public administration and public administrators' role, which elicits controversy. The piece is equally timeless considering the factored themes such as reforms in public administrators' roles and strategies of achieving social good. The themes are significant to the contemporary space establishing the piece as insightful. 

References

Frederickson, H. G. (1968).  Toward a New public administration . University Alabama Press.

Moynihan, D. (2018). A great schism approaching? Towards a micro and macro public administration.  Journal of Behavioral Public Administration ,  1 (1).

Sarker, N. I., et al. (2018). Determination of interdisciplinary relationship among political science, social sciences and public administration: Perspective of theory and practice.  Discovery ,  54 (273), 353-359.

Walker, R. M., et al. (2019). Best practice recommendations for replicating experiments in public administration.  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ,  29 (4), 609-626.