Efficiency, Legitimacy, and the Administrative State

DeCanio, Samuel

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“…DeCanio S. [12] believes that another indicator of the institutional stability of public administration is the perfection of normative and legal as well as legislative support, which simultaneously turns out to be a regulator of relations between the state and society.…”

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Institutional Stability of Public Administration in the Conditions of Increasing Economic and Legal Challenges and Threats of Financial and Economic and Socio-Political Crisis in Ukraine

Blikhar,

Skovronska,

Shyshko

et al. 2023

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The purpose of the article is to study the theoretical foundations and practical aspects of the justification of the peculiarities and identification of problems of institutional stability of public administration in the conditions of increasing economic and legal challenges and threats of the financial and economic and socio-political crisis of Ukraine. Based on the results of the conducted research, it can be stated that in the conditions of the strengthening of the financial and economic and socio-political crisis, there is an aggravation of the negative impact of economic and legal challenges and threats that significantly unbalance the institutional stability of public administration. The article analyzes the main scientific approaches to determining the essence of the institutional stability of public administration, identifies the main factors that have the most destructive effect on the public administration system, identifies the most important problems of the institutional stability of public administration, and finds out that they increase their destabilizing influence in the period of aggravation of economic and legal challenges and threats of the financial and economic and social-political crisis. Empirical evaluations of the Integral indicator of public administration in Ukraine for the period of 2018–2021 were carried out according to such subindexes as "implementation of the right to vote in the state and accountability", "government efficiency", "political stability and absence of violence", "quality of legislation", "the rule of law" and "corruption control", as a result of which their critical values were established, which lead to a significant imbalance of the public administration system, to the deepening of social tensions and to the exacerbation of crisis situations. The main measures to increase the institutional stability of public administration are proposed, among the most significant of which are the formation of a special mechanism for forecasting risks, threats and dangers to the system of public administration, taking into account crisis situations and the strengthening of financial and economic and socio-political challenges; improvement of current domestic legislation and its harmonization with the norms of European and international law; development of an effective anti-corruption mechanism and its legislative regulation.

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Section: B Vyshnevskyimentioning

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Institutional Stability of Public Administration in the Conditions of Increasing Economic and Legal Challenges and Threats of Financial and Economic and Socio-Political Crisis in Ukraine

Blikhar,

Skovronska,

Shyshko

et al. 2023

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“…In a world of nation-states, this problem is unavoidable. Since states impose singular decisions on society, there's no way to access the counterfactual information needed to assess whether conditions would have been better absent the state's interventions (DeCanio, 2021).…”

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What Can Industrial Policy Do? Evidence from Singapore

Cheang

2022

Rev Austrian Econ

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This article explores the limits of central industrial planning through a case study of Singapore. While previous Austrian scholars have argued that successful industrial planning is impossible, and that its successes (if any) are limited to the resolution of technical problems, the positive economic record of Singapore under the auspices of its developmental state capitalism poses a strong challenge to these market-oriented perspectives.In response, I present a modest position. I concede that Singapore’s industrial policy has to some extent contributed to genuine economic development but insist that its state-heavy approach has nonetheless hampered the market’s entrepreneurial discovery by stifling local entrepreneurial talent and crowding out local small-medium enterprises. The top-down model has also limited the economy’s adaptive potential. I draw from productivity, entrepreneurship, and innovation data to make my case and conclude that Singapore’s experience with its developmental state model comes with a significant cost, notwithstanding its impressive achievements.

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Can one “prove” that a harmful event was preventable? Conceptualizing and addressing epistemological puzzles in postincident reviews and investigations

Meyer

2023

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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A growing part of the literature on crises, disasters, and policy failures focuses on the design, conduct, and impact of postincident reviews or inquiries, particularly whether the right lessons are identified and subsequently learned. However, such accounts underappreciate the specific challenge posed by epistemic puzzles, under what conditions their difficulty may vary, and which strategies could help to solve them. Drawing on insights from a wide range of cases, the article identifies hindsight bias, counterfactual reasoning, and root‐cause analysis as core components creating an epistemic triangle of inquiry puzzling. It advances four propositions about the conditions that help or hinder investigators' capacity to produce sound knowledge and concludes by setting out potential strategies that investigators can use to fully address or at least mitigate these epistemic challenges.

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Efficiency, Legitimacy, and the Administrative State

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Institutional Stability of Public Administration in the Conditions of Increasing Economic and Legal Challenges and Threats of Financial and Economic and Socio-Political Crisis in Ukraine

Institutional Stability of Public Administration in the Conditions of Increasing Economic and Legal Challenges and Threats of Financial and Economic and Socio-Political Crisis in Ukraine

What Can Industrial Policy Do? Evidence from Singapore

Can one “prove” that a harmful event was preventable? Conceptualizing and addressing epistemological puzzles in postincident reviews and investigations

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