An Administrative Manifesto for Survival in the Twenty‐First Century

Abstract

Professor Ali Farazmand has written a manifesto for administrative action in an effort to improve public governance and administration capacity not only for today but also for tomorrow, which is highly volatile and uncertain. Farazmand's earlier works, especially his essay “Globalization and Public Administration” (PAR, November/December 1999), are familiar to many students and scholars in public administration around the world.

Privatization and National Development: A Case Study of Ghana

“…Further, Farazmand (2009) and Fard (2009) claim that the inefficiency of SOEs could be attributed to a lack of or paralyzed administrative capacity. Farazmand (2009) in his manifesto for public administration practice argued that the dependence of government on the market does not solve the problem but rather it is a barrier to promoting administrative capacity, which is imperative for a revived public administration system.…”