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Title: THE POLIBIUS PROJECT Building networks of knowledge in Public administration
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THE POLIBIUS PROJECTBuilding networks of
knowledge in Public administration
- Higher education practice
- International cooperation MEDA
Carlos Conde Martínez, Universidad de Granada,
Spain
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REINFORCING THE LINK BETWEEN PA AND KNOWLEDGE
- KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES
- Institutionalized forms of production,
dissemination and use of information and analysis
about Public Administration - IDENTIFICATION OF RESOURCES
- Where is knowledge about public administration?
- How is this knowledge produced, disseminated and
used? - AND ACTION
- BETTER KNOWLEDGE Improving research, education
and training through international cooperation
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KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES ON PA
- Academic institutions
- The output
- Education for life
- Academic research producing principled theory
- The approach (disciplinary)
- PA as law
- PA as social science
- Public administration (institutions)
- Public policy (processes and outcomes)
- Public management (resources)
- Governance (social networks)
- Other local government, regional studies, public
finances... - Driven by supply
- The institutional setting
- From isolation to intensive networking
- Professional schools
- The output
- Training for practice
- Applied research solving problems
- The approach (practical)
- New techniques
- Professional skills
- Reactive to demand
- Institutional setting
- (Increasingly pluralistic and diversified)
- Centralized governmental institutions
- De-centralized training and consulting
organizations (local governments, associations,
foundations) - Private companies and recently privatized
agencies - Academic institutions related to universities
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EDUCATION vs. TRAINING
- Traditional higher education is based in
disciplines and principled theory - Usual professional training is limited to
techniques, skills and oriented to the position - However
- Problems are not about disciplines, but about
facts. If universities persist in discipline and
theory, how responding to cases? - The scope of practical perspective is very
limited, it can provoke important mistakes by not
taking into account factors that are not grounded
in practice - Does training provide with contextual knowledge?
- Does training provide with critical thinking?
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RESPONSES
- Better links between education, research and the
profession - Practitioners in academia
- Applied research and consultancy
- Internships
- Supply of in service training
- New pedagogical approaches to teach PA
- Less organization, more process
- Less bureaucracy, more governance
- Less standardization and generalization, more
difference - Teaching contingency
- Adaptation and transfer
- Less lecturing, more student-engaging work
- New degrees structure and educational strategies
- The role of master
- Joint modules and programs
- Longlife learning
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Learning Public Administration tendencies
- The content technical management democratic
governance - PA is composed by a set of techniques and
procedures (legal, financial) - PA is an actor within the political system
(policy options) - PA makes part of the social structure (public
services) - The approach from bureaucracy (PA commands and
controls) to network (PA negotiates and mediates) - The focus on hierarchy is challenged by
tendencies to privatization, contracting out,
decentralization - Increased accountability modifies the target the
point is not how the state works, but how a
public problem is solved - Multidisciplinary approaches
- Empirical focus
- Connection with research
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POLIBIUS PROJECTREINFORCING ACADEMIC RESOURCES
IN THE FIELD OF GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
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POLIBIUS PROJECT
- Goals
- Identification and evaluation of academic
resources in the field of governance - Elaboration of an action plan to reinforce these
resources through systematic, institutional and
professional academic cooperation - Cases Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan,
Lebanon, Palestine and Syria - Method
- Calendar March 2005 April 2006
- Elaboration of Terms of Reference for national
surveys - Research at national level
- Transnational evaluation of the situation
- Design and implementation of an action plan
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SITUATION IN MEDA
- The actors
- Public, private and international institutions
- The role of government in PA higher education and
research - Big divide between the Anglo-American tradition
and the French tradition - Administrative Law (Maghreb)
- Management (Mashrek)
- Little attention to public administration and
policy from social sciences perspective - Exceptions elite institutions not connected to
national public administrations - The research deficit
- Formalistic approaches to PA
- Absence of empirical academic culture
- Lack of applied research, universities do not
respond to governmental needs
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EVALUATION
- Big challenges in the area of new forms of
governance - Networks of public service delivery
- The role of citizens/civil society institutions
in governmental affairs - Management under conditions of public
accountability - Mistmach between academic supply and
policy/practitioner demand in good governance - Limited diversification of programs and expertise
- Social divide
- Research deficit
- Limited production and dissemination
- Lack of empirical culture
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NEEDS
- Programs
- Curriculum development new programs and courses
- Empirical orientation of education
- Quality assurance
- Training of trainers
- Research
- Transnational networks
- Young researchers training
- Dissemination of research
- Developping methodologies for transfer and
adaptation - Reinforcing consultancy capacities and applied
research - Impact of higher education
- Relations with the professional world, linking
professional schools and universities - Challenging the social divide inclusive
strategy, quality for all
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INITIATIVES
- Reinforcing research
- Journal of Public Administration
- Network of young researchers
- Workshop in EGPA annual conference
- Links with the profession
- Participation in the network of national schools
of PA - Intensive training program for officials and
scholars - Academic development
- Platform for joint curriculum development
- Quality assurance
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REFERENCES
- European Public Administration Network materials,
available at http//bl.ul.ie/epan/ - Polibius Project, an Inventory of Academic
Resources in the Field of Governance and Public
Administration in the Mediterranean Region
(Tempus Meda SCM M014A04) - Bogason, Peter Brans Marleen, Making public
administration teaching and theory relevant,
EGPA Annual Conference, 2005.
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Thank you!Merci!Sucran!Gracias!
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