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A 3 page paper discussing a specific approach to public administration. Within the paramount paradigm regarding public administration research is the cognitive approach subparadigm that contains several other categories. These include the political, managerial, judicial, ethical, integrated/comprehensive and historical approaches to public administration. The purpose here is to trace the evolution of the managerial approach. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: CC6_KSpubAdminRes.rtf
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Every artist understands the critical nature of perspective, both in the creation of a work and in the viewers vantage. Perspective can and does color the view of virtually
everything that comes under examination, including various research investigations into public administration. Within the paramount paradigm regarding public administration research is the cognitive
approach subparadigm that contains several other categories. These include the political, managerial, judicial, ethical, integrated/comprehensive and historical approaches to public administration. The purpose here is to trace the
evolution of the managerial approach. The Managerial Approach Lan and Anders (2000) define the managerial approach as regarding "public administration as an instrument
to achieve social and organizational efficiency" (p. 138). Though it is not so common now, in years past $500 toilet seats and $600 hammers were the brunt of rueful
jokes highlighting the inefficiency of government in its function. For years the federal government required that a specific - and nonstandard - size paper be used for all government
correspondence. This was not too much of an issue until the advent of copy machines and fax transmittals, but then the machinery wanted by government offices had to be
specially built for government use and their costs went up accordingly. President Reagan actively sought to reduce government waste with the formation of the Grace Commission in the early
1980s. The Commission made "2,478 cost-cutting recommendations, the implementation of which would have saved taxpayers an estimated $424.4 billion over three years and prevented the buildup of trillions of
dollars of additional national debt by the year 2000" (Peterson, 1994). One of those recommendations was the forerunner of the "Welfare to Work" reforms instituted by the Clinton administration
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