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Three Paradigms of Governance and Administration: Chinese, Western and Islamic

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  • Wolfgang Drechsler

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The title of this essay is programmatic: I will attempt to suggest and tentatively conceptualize and that there are (at least) three paradigms of governance and especially public administration (PA). Briefly put, this means that there is not one global best (practice of) PA, but that what we call global PA is actually Western PA . and, today, that means to a large extent Anglo-American PA. If we follow Bouckaertÿs (2011) suggestion that PA has two dimensions, equity (goals) and performance (mechanics), inextricably linked though they may often be, we call this global PA ´good PA¡ if it is both ´working¡ and ´ethical¡. With paradigms, I first of all mean the potentiality and theory . we may also say possible epistemes . rather than reality and practice as we observe it today of forms of what we can call Non-Western PA (NWPA). It is the availability of the potential that, in light of the reality as it exists, may make this topic relevant.

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  • Wolfgang Drechsler, 2013. "Three Paradigms of Governance and Administration: Chinese, Western and Islamic," The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics 50, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance.
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    1. Wolfgang Drechsler, 2015. "Debate: Islamic PA-does it exist, what is it, and why and how should we study it?," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(1), pages 63-64, January.
    2. Stelios Lekakis & Shobhit Shakya & Vasilis Kostakis, 2018. "Bringing the Community Back: A Case Study of the Post-Earthquake Heritage Restoration in Kathmandu Valley," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-17, August.
    3. Caichen Ma & Yunxiao Xu & James L. Chan, 2015. "Debate: Wang Anshi and Confucian public management--a rejoinder," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 253-254, July.
    4. Hong Liu & Celia Lee & Chris Alden, 2022. "The Dynamics of Governance and Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 13(S1), pages 5-10, April.
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    6. Wolfgang Drechsler, 2014. "Debate: Towards understanding Wang Anshi and Confucian public management," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(4), pages 246-248, July.
    7. Joshua Newman & Emi Patmisari & Ida Widianingsih, 2022. "Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 55(3), pages 469-485, September.
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    • F54 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration

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