{"title":"Dealing with Wicked Problems in Public Administration","authors":"A. Massey","doi":"10.24193/tras.si2022.8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\"This article addresses an approach to explore and tackle some of the existential threats (wicked problems) that face public administration globally. It seeks to build on existing work to suggest some defining traits in terms of ‘wicked’ issues and problems that are being explored again by governments and international organizations such as the OECD in order to develop leadership cadres that are equipped to advance and deliver focused policies that can strategically combat these problems. The paper discusses how and why an innovative and indeed entrepreneurial approach to dealing with these issues requires effective bureaucracies and explores the barriers to public administration academics to getting involved in delivering real world support to policy makers and public servants.\"","PeriodicalId":45832,"journal":{"name":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24193/tras.si2022.8","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
"This article addresses an approach to explore and tackle some of the existential threats (wicked problems) that face public administration globally. It seeks to build on existing work to suggest some defining traits in terms of ‘wicked’ issues and problems that are being explored again by governments and international organizations such as the OECD in order to develop leadership cadres that are equipped to advance and deliver focused policies that can strategically combat these problems. The paper discusses how and why an innovative and indeed entrepreneurial approach to dealing with these issues requires effective bureaucracies and explores the barriers to public administration academics to getting involved in delivering real world support to policy makers and public servants."
期刊介绍:
TRAS represents a collective effort initiated by an international group aimed at boosting the research in the field of public administration in a country where during the communist regime there was no tradition in this sense. TRAS represents a unique source of specialized analysis of the ex-communist space, of the transition processes to democracy, of the reform of public administration, and of comparative analysis of administrative systems. The general topic covered by the articles in the Review is administrative sciences. As a result of an interdisciplinary, modern approach, the articles cover the following specific themes: Public management, public policy, administrative law, public policy analysis, regional development, community development, public finances, urban planning, program evaluation in public administration, ethics, comparative administrative systems, etc. TRAS encourages the authors to submit articles that are based on empirical research. From the standpoint of the topic covered, TRAS is lined up with the trends followed by other international journals in the field of public administration. All articles submitted to the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences have to present a clear connection to the field of administrative sciences and the research (both theoretical and empirical) should be conducted from this perspective. Interdisciplinary topics related to organizational theory, sustainable development and CSR, international relations, etc. can be considered for publication, however the research needs to address relevant issues from the perspective of the public sector. Articles which use highly specialized econometrics models as well as studies addressing macro-economic topics will not be considered for evaluation. The decision on whether a certain topic falls within the interest of TRAS belongs to the editors and it is not connected with the overall quality of the work submitted.