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EJA: Educação de jovens e adultos como política educacional inclusiva no Brasil
Authors: Rosa Eliana Cristina
Published: January 2017

Este trabalho discutiu a situação da educação de Jovens e Adultos no Brasil. Pretendeu verificar a educação de jovens e adultos, enquanto inclusiva, bem como identificar a acreditação como um dos aspectos relevantes para a melhoria da qualidade do ensino oferecido a comunidade. O estudo de abordagem qualitativa, exploratória, com pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Dos resultados obtidos destacam-se: as políticas educacionais e documentos legais, garantem  a inclusão deste segmento populacional,  porém  não atendem plenamente as  demandas, visto os limitados investimentos financeiros, altos índices de evasão escolar,  provenientes de dificuldades sociais, econômicas e do fragmentado processo de ensino e aprendizagem. É necessário criar estratégias efetivas para o atendimento das demandas educacionais deste público. Concluiu-se que  trabalhar questões educacionais de jovens e adultos deve ser  uma das prioridades na agenda educacional  das esferas governamentais. O programa EJA se mostra expressivo no campo educacional e necessário em relação às políticas públicas no país. A avaliação e acreditação  do Programa  é uma das estratégias para a  melhoria da qualidade do ensino na busca por equiparar a educação.Palavras-chave: EJA; Políticas Públicas; Inclusão; Acreditação. ABSTRACT: This paper discussed the situation of the Youth and Adult Education in Brazil. He intended to check the adult education as inclusive as well as identify the accreditation as one of the important aspects to improve the quality of education offered to the community. The study of qualitative, exploratory approach, with bibliographical and documentary research. The results obtained are: educational and legal documents policies, ensure the inclusion of this population segment, but did not fully meet the demands, as the limited financial investment, high rates of school dropouts, from social problems, economic and fragmented process teaching and learning. You must create effective strategies to meet the educational demands of the public. It was concluded that work educational issues of young people and adults should be a priority in the educational agenda of government spheres. The EJA program shows significant and necessary in the educational field in relation to public policies in the country. The evaluation and accreditation of the program is one of the strategies to improve the quality of education in seeking to equate education.Keywords: EJA; Public Policy; Inclusion; Accreditation.
Inclusão e emancipação subjetiva, social e cultural de pessoas com deficiência: reflexões à luz das contribuições de Paulo Freire
Authors: Santos Luciana Stoppa dos , Legore Ana Claudia Alves
Published: January 2017

O presente artigo se dedica a lançar algumas reflexões sobre o pensamento de Paulo Freire, suas contribuições relativas à importância da educação para o processo de libertação e emancipação dos oprimidos e a relação destes princípios éticos, políticos e educativos no que tange a educação de pessoas com Deficiência. Partimos do princípio de que um sujeito com Deficiência experimentou e ainda experimenta histórias de exclusão, humilhação e opressão e refletimos sobre como as políticas públicas nos diferentes campos não tem conseguido efetivamente garantir seu protagonismo e inclusão social. No campo da Educação, apontamos a garantia deste direito como aspecto fundamental para a tomada de consciência sobre a condição que vivencia no mundo e para a construção de um discurso próprio que possa pautar suas demandas e efetivamente transformar sua realidade. Por fim, propomos uma aproximação entre as ideias de Paulo Freire e Miguel Lopes Melero, pesquisador espanhol que se dedicou a lutar pela desconstrução de preconceitos acerca das pessoas com deficiência e suas potencialidades, elaborando um importante referencial teórico para ampliar a reflexão sobre a construção da autonomia pessoal, social e moral destes sujeitos.Palavras-chave: Paulo Freire; Emancipação; Deficiência. ABSTRACT: This article aims at introducing some reflections concerning Paulo Freire's thoughts besides his contributions not only relating to the importance of education based on the process of liberation and emancipation of the opressed but also   the relation of etical,political and educative principles regarding the education of the deficient people. First of all, it is of pivotal importance to highligh that when a deficient person lives an exclusion, humiliation and opressive situation the public pulitcs in all over the fileds ,as we concern, are not able to guarantee eficientally the social inclusion. On the education field, we assure the guarantee of this social right as a fundamental aspect to develop the awareness of all the demands of a self-speech, then to transform the reality. Overall, we suggest an approximation between the ideas of Paulo Freire and Miguel Lopes Meleiro, a spanish researcher who devoted oneself to fight for the descontribution of the  prejudice over people with deficiency and their potentials, thus perfecting an important teorical referencial to amplify a refletion based on their contraction both personal, social and moral self-governmentKeywords: Paulo Freire; Emancipation; Deficiency.
Reflexões sobre a Geografia escolar e a educação popular
Authors: Paula Érico Lopes Pinheiro de , Messina Natália
Published: January 2017

Delineado a partir de um exercício de sala de aula aplicado a alunos de instituição particular urbana no município de Aracaju-SE, este ensaio abarca questões referentes aos instrumentos e às formas em que a avaliação se apresenta no cotidiano escolar. Conferindo ênfase a Geografia escolar, foi desenvolvido um panorama relacionado as tendências pedagógicas, inspirações filosóficas e práticas educativas desenvolvidas ao longo da história. Preceitos da Epistemologia Genética e da linguagem compõe os elementos que auxiliaram a compreensão da relação do desenvolvimento humano às praticas escolares. Ao final, enfatizamos que o contexto neoconservador-liberal pode limitar a ação e consciência sobre o processo de ensino – especialmente no que tange à educação popular – e, com os indícios encontrados, amplifica-se a necessidade do desenvolvimento de um trabalho contextualizado,reflexivo e crítico. Com a análise desenvolvida, deixamos sugerido que exercícios escolares como esse distanciam-se da efetiva educação popular, conforme referências nas quais acreditamos.Palavras-chave: Epistemologia Genética; Ensino de Geografia; Educação Popular; Políticas Públicas em Educação; Ensino Fundamental. ABSTRACT: Outlined from an exercise class applied to urban private school students in the city of Aracaju-SE, this paper covers issues relating to the instruments and the ways in which the evaluation is presented in everyday school life. An emphasis school Geography, developed an overview related pedagogical trends, philosophical inspirations and educational practices developed throughout history. Precepts of Genetic Epistemology and language make up the elements that helped the understanding of the relationship of human development to school practices. Finally, we emphasize that the neoconservadorliberal context can limit the action and awareness of the teaching process - especially with regard to public education - and thefound evidence, amplifies the need of developing a contextualized, reflective and critical work. With the developed analysis suggested that we leave school exercises such distancing is effective popular education, as references in which we believe.Keywords: Genetic Epistemology; Geography Education; Popular Education; Public Policies in Education; Elementary School.
Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Romantic Relationship Distress Among White and Mexican Newlyweds
Authors: Hammett Julia F. , Ulloa Emilio C. , Castañeda Donna M. , Hokoda Audrey
Published: January 2017

This study examined the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization and romantic relationship distress in a sample of 100 heterosexual White and Mexican American couples. Data were collected during the first and during the third year of marriage. In the overall sample, wives’ own IPV victimization was associated with wives’ increased distress and husbands’ IPV victimization was associated with wives’ decreased distress. Among Mexican Americans, wives’ IPV victimization was related to husbands’ increased distress, whereas among White Americans, wives’ IPV victimization was related to husbands’decreaseddistress. These results indicate that the association between IPV victimization and relationship distress may not only differ by gender but also by ethnicity.
Perceptions of Psychological Abuse Versus Physical Abuse and Their Relationship With Mental Health Outcomes
Authors: Masci B.S. Sandra F. , Sanderson Sonya
Published: January 2017

Prior research has been limited in examining at what degree aggressive actions are initially perceived negatively. The present research examined whether anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were associated with prior abuse or with being attributed to past or present relationships. Scales such as the Dating Relationship Profile (DRP) and hypothetical scenarios of abuse perpetration were used. This study hypothesized that acceptability ratings from hypothetical scenarios would predict answers on DRP items measuring whether physical or psychological abuse is considered acceptable in relationships. Specifically, gender would be a predictor variable. Convenience sampling of undergraduate psychology students from a comprehensive, metropolitan university in north Georgia was used and resulted in 291 respondents (n = 227 [78%] female, n = 64 [22%] male) whose ages ranged from 18 to 54 years (M = 20.57 years, SD = 5.12 years). The present research used a 2 × 2 between-subjects design examining gender and type of hypothetical scenario violence with perceptions of abuse as the dependent variable. A significant association between experience of abuse and attribution of anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms to past or present relationships and between experience of abuse and these symptoms was found. Results revealed a significant difference between acceptability ratings of psychological abuse and gender, with men perceiving psychological abuse as more acceptable.
The Violent Victimization of Children, Adolescents, Adults, and the Elderly: Situational Characteristics and Victim Injury
Authors: Kelsay James D. , Tillyer Marie Skubak , Tillyer Rob , Ward Jeffrey T.
Published: January 2017

This study explores the nature and outcome of violent incidents experienced by child, adolescent, adult, and elderly victims. Data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are used to determine whether there are differences in the situational characteristics—including location, time of day, weapons, and the victim–offender relationship—of violent victimization experiences across the 4 age groups, including whether situational characteristics influence the likelihood of victim injury. Results indicate that victim injury is most prevalent among adult victims and that the situational characteristics of violent incidents vary by victim age, as do the correlates of victim injury. These findings suggest that of the nature of violent victimization should be examined within the context of victim age, and supports research by scholars who have proposed a model of developmental victimology to identify age-specific victimization patterns.
Tenets of Public Management and the World War II Mot ion Picture Genre
Authors: Schwester Richard W.
Published: January 2017

The motion picture as an artistic medium amplifies emotions through the combination of imagery and sound. This medium has proven ideal for chronicling the American World War II experience. The World War II film genre has portrayed the American combat soldier as heroic and resourceful (Suid 2002). These portrayals of actions and leadership on the battlefield are, to some measure, applicable to contemporary public management. This paper examines select World War II motion pictures in the context of the following questions: (1) what tenets do these motion pictures convey and (2) to what extent do these tenets apply topublic management? Patton (1970), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and The Great Escape (1963) are examined
The Positive Image of Public Servants in Editorial Cartoons (1999 - 2003)
Authors: Carrizales Tony
Published: January 2017

The editorial cartoon has been a part of American culture since the beginning of the nation’s founding. The following review of editorial cartoons takes a specific look at public servants who are not in the political spotlight, such as teachers, police, fire and postal service men and women. Through a review of editorial cartoons from 1999-2003, it becomes apparent that there are positive images of public servants amid the numerous negative ones published daily. The selection of cartoons, most notably those following the attacks of September 11, 2001, highlights that heroism and service can be transcended through cartoons as with any other form of art.
Mommy-Nanny as Principal-Agent in The Nanny Diaries
Authors: Maranto Robert , Maranto April Gresham
Published: January 2017

Considerable research applies principal-agent theory to administration. Though previous analysts have not applied it to child rearing, we argue that the changing character of the family and accordingly increased use of paid caregivers for children illustrate some of the issues catalogued in principal-agent theory. We will outline the basic assumptions of principal-agent theory and apply these to childcare as presented in the darkly comic bestseller The Nanny Diaries, based in part on actual events. In particular, our discussion suggests the difficulties of monitoring child-care workers due to information asymmetries and the likelihood of what Brehm and Gates (1997) refer to as “shirking and sabotage.” As with the bureaucrats discussed by Brehm and Gates, in The Nanny Diaries, the most dedicated child-care workers, those least likely to shirk, are also least likely to obey the principals’ (parents’) orders, since they have deeply held values and significant knowledge regarding child care. We suggest The Nanny Diaries for classroom use in illustrating principal-agent concepts.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives
Authors: Phillips John
Published: January 2017

Reviewed by John R. Phillips
Pink Tape: A Feminist Theory of Red Tape
Authors: Mullins Lauren Bock
Published: January 2017

This article links literature on the glass ceiling to literature on red tape by analyzing how red tape fits into a larger discussion of substantive and formal equality and offers three propositions toward forming a theory of pink tape, as a stepping-stone for future exploratory research to advance the agenda of women in public administration. The theory of pink tape has implications for organizational training, psychological/social health of women, effective management of the public sector, and representative bureaucracy.
Advancing Women in Local Government: The Case of Illinois
Authors: Lange Rachel , Nelson Kimberly
Published: January 2017

Despite gains by women in many professional fields, the top level of local government management ranks continues to be populated primarily by man. The percentage of females serving as local government chief administrators has not increased since the 1980s. Little empirical research exists that attempts to uncover the reason for the gender gap. The purpose of this research is to identify some of the obstacles and barriers that affect a woman’s decision to advance her career in local government. Utilizing an online survey, the authors surveyed female chief administrative officers (CAOs), assistant CAOs, assistant to the CAOs, and deputy CAOs in Illinois. The survey results show that barriers such as a male dominated culture and time commitment to work life and family life are preventing females from achieving higher authority. Mentoring proves to be a positive solution to many of the barriers facing women in local government.
In Their Own Words: The Experiences of Mothers in the Federal Civil Service
Authors: Golden Marissa Martino
Published: January 2017

It is generally agreed that women’s mass entry into the labor force has been accompanied by high levels of stress for working mothers (Becker 2013; Hochshild 1989; Slaughter 2012). Family-friendly workplace policies are often touted as one means to mitigate such stress. This article examines the use of these policies by mothers employed in the federal civil service. It employs a qualitative interview-based approach to document the impact these policies have on the lives of public service women. It finds that the policies play a significant and positive role in enabling civil service mothers to balance their work and family obligations. It further finds that the 40-hour work week culture of the federal government also plays a positive role in supporting the work/life balance these women seek. However, the article finds that the only way to penetrate the glass ceiling is to forego the very policies and work hours that these women find so helpful. This limits the career advancement of the civil service mothers studied here.
Gendered Organizations, Care Ethics, and Active Representation
Authors: Rauhaus Beth
Published: January 2017

A number of public agencies have a hand in providing protection and assistance to victims through provisions of domestic violence programs. This qualitative study examines regulatory and redistributive agencies in three states to determine if active representation, through the provision of domestic violence services, can be achieved in public agencies that are gendered. Using the theoretical framework of representative bureaucracy, this case study examines the importance of gender representation and the effect of gender dynamics in organizations on achieving active representation. This study links passive representation to active representation using care ethics in redistributive agencies due to the organizational mission, feminine culture, the predominance of female clientele, and the need for feminine traits, such as care and emotions, to be exhibited by public administrators.
Katrina, Rita, Challenger and Columbia: Operationalizing a Knowledge Analytic in NASA and DHS Crises
Authors: Garrett Terence Michael
Published: January 2017

Recent and past problems with the NASA shuttle program are illustrative of decisionmaking problems centered at the executive level of knowledge on the organizational pyramid. The poor responses to hurricanes Katrina and Rita by executives at all levels of government, but particularly with regard to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also bear scrutiny. These catastrophic incidents, beyond the obvious partisan/political differences and the physical and psychological devastation, are demonstrative of management failures in their respective organizations. The author argues that the key to unlocking the conundrum of management failure rests with the fact that multiple knowledges exist in modern organizations like NASA, DHS, and FEMA and the use and development of the knowledge analytic offers new theoretical insights for understanding managerialcrises.
Knowledge for Natural Disasters
Authors: Schmidt Mary R.
Published: January 2017

Just as the rich knowledge of craftsmen was once the basis of working life, thecomplex knowledge of ordinary people has organized life outside of work and heldcommunities together to confront all kinds of disasters. In this paper, FEMA’s model of man prevented it from understanding how local knowledge could be used to prepare for an earthquake and then contributed to making things worse in New Orleans. This paper explores the use of another model of socially distributed knowledge and action for protecting people from natural disasters, especially at the bottom.
From Novice to Expert: Operationalizing Kinds of Knowing in an Environmental Management Setting
Authors: Zingale Nicholas C.
Published: January 2017

Existing ways of dealing with environmental problems subscribe to (or use) aframework based on a resource model that is enframed in science and technology. As stated by Thomas Kuhn, science theory looks for a change within this framework by following certain rules and standards for scientific practice. This is different from phenomenology. Phenomenology is dedicated to describing the structures of experience as they present themselves in everyday life, without prior recourse to theory, deduction, or assumptions from other disciplines such as the natural sciences/Understanding environmental problems from a phenomenological perspective means developing an alternative model that does not treat the world as a mere resource, but instead as interdependent for drawing on human possibility. Kuhn would accept this view as a paradigm change (Kuhn, 1970). This paper will discuss how broad social paradigms in the form of attitudes affect individual opportunities for change. A model will be presented that theorizes how attitudes are developed both from knowledge and informed know-how gained through science and experience.
Table of Contents
Authors: Team Editorial
Published: January 2017

Vol. X, #2
Corruption and Public Values in Historical and Comparative Perspective: An Introduction
Authors: Kennedy James , Wagenaar Pieter , Rutgers Mark , Eijnatten Joris Van
Published: January 2017

What are our public values? That question can perhaps best be answered by considering it in a deeper historical perspective. It is only through in-depth, case-by-case studies that we can hope to comprehend the meaning of public values and their change over time.In this regard, episodes of conflict are extremely important in discerning which public values are really salient, and how such values change as a result of such conflicts. We argue that public values, as they relate to corruption or other matters, are often only visible in moments of crisis or in moments of scandal.That is why we have focused on corruption cases that signal changes in the development of public values. These cases are almost always, by definition, “scandals,” states of affairs which generated public emotion and vigorous debate. “Scandals,” in contrast to “normal” corruption cases, are often indications of a changing mindset among key actors in the public sphere about the moral (un)acceptability of certain public practices. Most typically, scandals signal public moral opposition to practices to which hitherto had been considered acceptable or at least condoned. By analyzing such cases, and historically contextualizing them, we hope to come to better historical understanding of how the public values of the present day found their “genesis.”
Corruption and Capability in the Dutch Republic: The Case of Lodewijk Huygens (1676)
Authors: Hoenderboom Michel P. , Kerkhoff Toon
Published: January 2017

This article presents and exemplifies an approach to the problem of revealing values related to capability in actual historical context. First, a conceptual framework is discussed that allows us to identify values underlying capability. Second, a case study is used to exemplify the conceptual framework and to locate values associated with capability in early modern public office. The case study on the (in)capability of Lodewijk Huygens (1631 – 1699), sheriff of Gorinchem between 1672 and 1684, shows what was considered (un)acceptable, (un)wanted and (in)tolerable behavior for a typical high-ranking seventeenthcentury public official in the Dutch Republic. The Huygens case teaches us that capability mainly consisted of adhering to the everyday rules of conduct among officials on the “shop-floor.” Formal legal standards and public opinion were of limited practical relevance. A capable magistrate should at least maintain harmony and balance on the practical side of the political arena.
Political Corruption Scandals in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: The Letters Affair of 1865
Authors: Kroeze Ronald
Published: January 2017

In recent years growing attention has been paid to public values and ethical behaviour in the public sphere. The Genesis of Public Value Systems project is concerned with understanding the development of public values, by analyzing historical examples of (alleged) corruption. In this article, I will discuss an example of a nineteenth-century political corruption scandal in the Netherlands, the so-called “Letters Affair.” A connection will be made between political corruption scandals and important political historical developments in the second half of the nineteenth century, in which the public sphere was dominated by the nineteenth-century liberal view on public rectitude. In Part I, I hope to offer more insight into they way in which cases of (alleged) corruption may help an in-depth analysis of public values and illustrate how the concept of political corruption scandals is used in this article. In Part II, the Letters Affair will be described in greater detail, and this section will also include an analysis of those values and rules of behaviour prevailing at the time of the Letters Affair that shaped dominant notions of public rectitude, and of the importance of these values within the debate on corruption. Finally, attention will be paid to how this particular case was dealt with: i.e., how was corruption handled and what kinds of measures were considered.
Corruption as a Political Issue in Modern Societies: France, Great Britain and the United States in the Long 19th Century
Authors: Engels Jens Ivo
Published: January 2017

The so-called “long 19th century”, from the French Revolution to the First World War, ranks as the crucial phase in the genesis of the modern world. In the Western countries this period was characterized by the differentiation of the public and the private spheres, the birth of the modern bureaucratic state and the delegitimation of early modern practices such as clientelism and patronage. All these fundamental changes are, among other things, usually considered important preconditions for the modern perception of corruption.This paper will concentrate on this crucial phase by means of a comparative analysis of debates in France, Great Britain and the United States, with the aim to elucidate the motives for major anti-corruption movements. The questions are: who fights against corruption and what are the reasons for doing so? I will argue that these concerns were often very different and sometimes accidental. Furthermore, an analysis of political corruption may reveal differences between the political cultures in the countries in question. Thus, the history of corruption serves as a sensor which enables a specific perspective on politics. By taking this question as a starting point the focus is narrowed to political corruption and the debates about corruption, while petty bribery on the part of minor civilservants, as well as the actual practice in the case of extensive political corruption, is left aside.
The Irony of Ethics Research: When the Sun Don’t Shine on Enforcement
Authors: Vaughan Shannon K , Newmark Adam J
Published: January 2017

The states have been highly active in governing the behavior of public officials through good government reforms, lobbying regulations, and ethics laws. However, much of the research neglects the enforcement of laws in terms of whether or not Attorneys General or Secretaries of State pursue investigations into law violations. In an attempt to interview relevant officials regarding ethics enforcement, we encountered significant obstacles in designing an evaluation of the implementation and enforcement of ethics legislation. In this cautionary research note, we identify the obstacles and their relevance for research on ethics enforcement in the states and present some ways to deal with these difficulties.
Representative “Identity”: The Case of Latino Populations in a Representative Bureaucracy
Authors: Carrizales Tony
Published: January 2017

With the growing U.S. Latino population, the concept of “representative bureaucracy” needs to be reevaluated. Specifically, Latino populations present a unique challenge for a representative bureaucracy and require an unorthodox vision of what an individual’s identity represents. Public administrators run the risk of overlooking the diversity among Latino populations by focusing solely on representative figures (under the umbrella terms of Latino/Hispanic). I pose the question: Is the study of Latino Representation inherently flawed in application, given the cultural, political, and historical diversity of over twenty distinct Latino populations? Employing an analysis of past and current literature of Latinos and public administration, it becomes evident that past studies of Latino representation overlook the group’s diversity. There are various challenges for such research which requires a unique approach.
Case Study #9: My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Authors: Nichols Dr. Kenneth
Published: January 2017

The poem is the duke’s side of a conversation about the duchess with an emissary who has come representing a family potentially interested in having their daughter marry the duke and become his next duchess.The duke and duchess rule the mythical duchy of Ferrara in an Italy of long ago. That makes them the executive officers, chief administrators, and designated heads of government over the people within the duchy: A pair of top cats. For us, what is interesting about this pair is the strong contrast of their leadership styles. The duke is autocratic and direct; the duchess he describes is quite the opposite — and, at least for the duke, unsettlingly effective. Through his conversation, the duke gives us many clues with regard to how they both rule. Who do you think is the better leader?
New Orleans 1991 / New York 2004
Authors: Mameli Peter
Published: January 2017

Poem on the Gulf Wars
The Sanctions Regime against Iraq (1990-2003): Policymaking and Values
Authors: Winkler Philippa
Published: January 2017

From 1990 to 2003, US/UK policymakers insisted that the UN sanctions regime against Iraq was worth the cost, which, by 1999, amounted to half a million child deaths in Iraq. US policymakers emphasized that the ends (saving the world from Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction program) justified the means (the adverse humanitarian consequences of the dismantling of Iraq’s economy). The draconian blockade was especially disastrous for the women and children of Iraq. This paper explores the ethical dimensions of the sanctions while presenting an unorthodox view of foreign policy administration and generating new ideas for improving it. I argue that pro-sanctions policy managers had to defend a “Sophie’s Choice:” killing children to save other children. I argue that this was a false dichotomy operating in the US policy towards Iraq since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and that it served as a cover-up for a hidden agenda related to US hegemony in the Middle East region.T1 Interviews in 1999 with three pro-sanctions diplomats reveal the personal moral dilemma of defending a policy of infanticide while appearing virtuous in doing so. I suggest an alternative paradigm and a number of strategies that would ask policymakers whether they speaking truth to power.
Cover & Masthead
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Opening pages of Public Voices Vol. 8 No. 2
An Interpretive-Phenomenological Critique of the Science of (New?) Public Management: A Polemic
Authors: Garrett Terence M
Published: January 2017

Public Administration as a field of academic inquiry has faced numerous challenges. Public management scholars focus exclusively on the executive level of management in public organizations. Knowledge possessed by lower-level managers, workers, and/or the public is ignored and deemed to be irrelevant or unimportant in the decision-making process within agencies. In general, technical rationality, or what passes for traditional management practice and the new public management, has had some success for executives and managers in public organizations insofar as motivating individuals for instrumental purposes. (*) The success of public management as a social and political movement makes it difficult to overcome. The concentration of the “public management movement” on the executive level of management has supplanted traditional public administration and public service. It is the ideology of public management that is the primary focus of this paper. Alternatives including the New Public Service and the knowledge analytic will be presented briefly as a counterpoint to address the democratic shortcomings of the public management movement, both new and old.*See Guy B. Adams and V. Ingersoll’s “Culture, Technical Rationality, and Organizational Culture,” in American Review of Public Administration, December 1990, 20/4: 285 – 302, for an excellent elaboration of the concept. In general, technical rationality is an approach to thinking that “has stripped reason of any normative role in shaping human affairs” (Adams and Balfour 1998, xiii).
Table of Contents
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Vol. VIII, #2
Masthead
Authors: Team Editorial
Published: January 2017

PV IX #1
Some Epigrams
Authors: Laoghaire Donncha Dall Ó
Published: January 2017

By Donncha Dall Ó Laoghaire
Music and Civic Space: The Political Harp
Authors: Dennard Linda
Published: January 2017

In Irish culture, the Celtic Harp is a metaphor for human struggle, freedom and intellectual life and, as such, is inextricably bound to politics. Separating Irish society from its politics, the birth of its government and music is simply not possible. Having a conference on Music and Civic Space in Ireland made a kind of sense in this way. In May 2005, an interdisciplinary group of international scholars were invited to University College Cork by the Department of Government to discuss the relationship between music and governance and, in particular, music’s role in creating public culture. The symposium offered here to the readers of Public Voices is a product and a direct outcome of the conference.
The US Bureau of Efficiency: Not RIP in 1933?
Authors: Lee Mordecai
Published: January 2017

The United States Bureau of Efficiency (BOE), which had been established in 1916, was abolished in 1933 when President Hoover signed an omnibus appropriation bill on his last full day in office. Given Hoover's commitment to businesslike and efficient management and his ongoing support for the work of the Bureau throughout his presidency, what if he had acted differently and prevented its abolition? This fictional public administration history explores how Hoover could have kept BOE in existence and, if he had, how six of his successors might have treated the agency as part of their administrations.
List of Critiques on Literary, Cinematographic, and Other Humanistic and Artistic Resources for Public Administration
Authors: Illiash Iryna
Published: January 2017

The previous issue of Public Voices featured the list of works of fiction that address various public administration topics and can be used both in teaching administrative theory and in managing public organizations. This issue offers the list of critical articles that discuss literary, cinematographic, and other humanistic and artistic resources for public administration. It should serve as another helpful tool in bringing together the science and the art of public administration.
Cover & Masthead
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Cover, Editorial Board, Masthead
The National Maine Monument, 1913
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

About the Central Park sculpture
Children's Stories & the Quantum Administrator
Authors: Dawoody Alexander
Published: January 2017

This article examines the analogous relation between children's literature and the complex (quantum and chaotic) world of public administration. Public policy and public administration interact with every aspect in our lives and leave their mark on how we perceive reality.  One of the formats that express these realities is children's literature.  Through the narratives of children's literature, we reflect our experiences and conscious outlooks toward life.  Children's literature is a fertile arena for our interactions with the world, and it bridges our past, present and future by extending itself beyond time and place, enabling us to understand and reflect on the complex world in which we live.  By understanding children's literature through the complexity lenses of chaos and quantun theories, we are able to liberate ourselves from the artificial constraints imposed on us by the mundane adulthood, and return once again with the same energy and curiosity to questioning the world.
Coming Up Empty in the People's Republic
Authors: Hubbel Larry
Published: January 2017

Exploring new grounds of personal growth in academia, an American professor goes to China for what he thinks would be a month-long enjoyable introductory visit that would pave the way to a four-month research related sojourn.  After three weeks of boredom and frustrated plans, he decides to take initiative in his own hands... and gets much more than he bargained for.
“Love and Peace or Else”: U2 and the Development of Social Consciousness inside and outside the Framework of Rock
Authors: Cogan Visnja
Published: January 2017

Rock and popular culture have had a tremendous impact on youth since they emerged. Rock music was the symbol of change, may it be social, sexual, or political. This article addresses the influence that the Irish rock band U2 may have had, more specifically, on their fans and, more generally, on society by charting the evolution of the band’s social consciousness throughout their career.
John Adams, Klinghoffer and The Transmigration of Souls: Musical Responses to Terrorism
Authors: Anderson John
Published: January 2017

This paper explores the way in which the music of John Adams responds to terrorism and looks at some of the controversies surrounding his work. It represents a reflection on how the musical and the political can interact in the modern world, engaging his work on the level of political dialogue.
Lewis and Clark’s “Corps of Discovery:” What US Public Administrators Can Learn from this American Epic
Authors: Klingner Donald
Published: January 2017

The Lewis and Clark expedition is arguably the greatest American epic – a narrative about a journey intended as a set of moral lessons or instructions. While circumstances today are different than those the Corps faced 200 years ago, contemporary US public administrators can still learn some valuable lessons from this American epic by analyzing what fundamental assumptions, values and practices underlie the Corps’ success.
The Artist as Environmentalist: Ansel Adams, Policy Entrepreneurship, and the Growth of Environmentalism
Authors: Morris John C.
Published: January 2017

The role of the policy entrepreneur in the policy process forms an integral part of our understanding of the formulation and implementation of policy in the United States. For all its theoretical importance, however, little work has been done to develop or test the propositions of entrepreneurship offered by Kingdon (1984). By examining the life of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), this paper explores more fully the concept of policy entrepreneurship and seeks to develop a more robust concept that accounts for the long-term, diffuse series of activities that precede Kingdon’s “stream coupling” in the policy process. The analysis suggests that such an approach offers some promise for capturing a broader spectrum of policy activity.
Community and the American Village on Paradise Drive
Authors: Duncan Christopher M.
Published: January 2017

The author argues that at the root of American culture is an apparent, though illusory, paradox of a people who are at one and the same time thoroughly individualistic and voraciously communal. This paradox is not only part of the American cultural fabric, it is built directly and purposefully into the U.S. constitutional system itself. By using their individual choice to choose various forms of community, Americans were able to sustain and reproduce the social capital necessary to remain the functional community of communities the constitutional scheme depended upon and prevent the slide into egoism and narcissism that would result in their own personal alienation. In this way, what was once thought to require virtue, discipline and obedience could seemingly beproduced by self-interested individualism, the pursuit of happiness and the willingness to respect the rules (read rights of others) of the larger political game.The author explores this idea on two recent “texts” that capture in very general ways a dominant trend in the relationship between community and culture in the contemporary United States. The first text is the recent film by the current master of suspense in American movies M. Night Shymalan The Village (2004). The second is the recent work of non-fiction by the conservative political journalist and regular news commentator David Brooks titled On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004).
Mary Parker Follett, Prophet of Management: A Celebration of Writings from the 1920s
Authors: Phillips John R.
Published: January 2017

Reviewed by John Phillips
Masthead
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Cover, Editorial Board, Masthead
Table of Contents
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Table of Contents
Listening to “Other” Voices: Letters from Readers
Authors: Board Editorial
Published: January 2017

Letters from Readers
Developing Ethical Behavior for Public Organizations: Cooperative Learning at the Public School Level
Authors: Anduze Kenneth
Published: January 2017

An approach to developing ethical behavior in public organizations can be achieved by implementing a cooperative learning structure in the American public school educational system. Cooperative learning towards ethical development seeks to build a contractual relationship between students in public schools that could help shape ethical behavior of students before they enter adult public organizations. Public school organizations should develop a consensus oriented decision-making process among educators and students that acknowledges the needs of all students. The agreed upon principles will be staples in identifying abusive and deviant behavior in school and adult public organizations.Eclipsing the hierarchical structure in both public school organizations and adult public organizations with a student/worker- centered environment could optimize ethical behavior.
A Real Ethical Dilemma: Professor Whistleblower and the Diary of the Lost Job*
Authors: Garrett Terence M.
Published: January 2017

At various times in one’s career, whether it is in an academic or non-academic setting, a person has to deal with ethical dilemmas. Most problems do not entail a situation where a professional career is at stake. Rather, situations arise that may be handled in the normal course of events with a minimal number of consequences. Occasionally, however, an issue arises where one is faced with an ethical dilemma that the outcome determines job security versus doing what is ethically appropriate. The following story presents a situation where the professor has to make a decision as to whether he follows the dictates of a university administration set to increase the size of students in classrooms ill-designed for expansion or to remain silent concerning the expansion and knowingly allow a possible tragedy to occur. The conflict is one aspect of an overall plan to supplant university governance and participation with centralization of power at theexpense of faculty and students.
“We’re a Culture, Not a Costume:” Ethical Analysis of a College Student-Led Organization’s Anti-Racism Campaign
Authors: Simmons Nathaniel
Published: January 2017

Students Teaching against Racism in Society (STARS) attracted both national and international headlines in October 2011 with their anti-racism campaign entitled “We’re a culture, not a costume.” At the time of the campaign, STARS was composed of ten undergraduate student members at Ohio University (OU). Situated in Athens, Ohio, OU has a history of hosting block parties for Halloween. In order to combat “racist” costumes, STARS initiated a campaign, funded by the Dean of Students in order to foster conversation and to bring awareness to racist, discriminatory, stereotypical, and prejudiced Halloween costumes. This campaign raises many ethical dilemmas. Therefore, this analysis seeks to explore implicit and explicit values and ethical dilemmas inherent within the campaign. Since racial inequalities often lead health disparities, this ethical analysis of STARS’ campaign has implications for both intercultural and health communication scholars. Additionally, future implications and directions of research as well as future considerations for similar campaigns are discussed.
The President’s Sabbatical
Authors: Popejoy Michael W.
Published: January 2017

Yielding to the pressure of the faculty senate requesting sabbaticals, Dr. P.R. Coots, president of the much less than prestigious Port Bumby Avenue College, comes up with an unconventional solution—he grants a sabbatical to …himself. The fact that he hasn’t taught a class in over 20 years does not bother him.
Closer to Town
Authors: Barker Denise
Published: January 2017

A glimpse into the life of a social worker. Although the account is fictitious, the story reflects the author’s experiences as a Social Services caseworker in the 1970s.
Tears of Heart
Authors: Dawoody Alexander
Published: January 2017

Poetry by Alexander Dawoody
Literary Resources to Public Administration
Authors: Illiash Iryna , Carrizales Tony
Published: January 2017

Compiled by Iryna Illiash and Tony Carrizales
Winning the Argument and Moving the Fight: The Legacy of a Grassroots Humanitarian
Authors: Coleman Mary
Published: January 2017

The author of this article argues that the two-decades-long litigation struggle was necessary to push the political actors in Mississippi into a more virtuous than vicious legal/political negotiation. The second and related argument, however, is that neither the 1992 United States Supreme Court decision in Fordice nor the negotiation provided an adequate riposte to plaintiffs’ claims. The author shows that their chief counsel for the first phase of the litigation wanted equality of opportunity for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as did the plaintiffs. In the course of explicating the role of a legal grass-roots humanitarian, Coleman suggests lessons learned and trade-offs from that case/negotiation, describing the tradeoffs as part of the political vestiges of legal racism in black public higher education and the need to move HBCUs to a higher level of opportunity at a critical juncture in the life of tuition-dependent colleges and universities in the United States. Throughout the essay the following questions pose themselves: In thinking about the Road to Fordice and to political settlement, would the Justice Department lawyers and the plaintiffs’ lawyers connect at the point of their shared strength? Would the timing of the settlement benefit the plaintiffs and/or the State? Could plaintiffs’ lawyers hold together for the length of the case and move each piece of the case forward in a winning strategy? Who were plaintiffs’ opponents and what was their strategy? With these questions in mind, the author offers an analysis of how the campaign— political/legal arguments and political/legal remedies to remove the vestiges of de jure segregation in higher education—unfolded in Mississippi, with special emphasis on the initiating lawyer in Ayers v. Waller and Fordice, Isaiah Madison