College of Public Affairs

Mindanao State University Main Campus

PA 201* – Foundation, Theory and Practice of Milhaya Dianalan Langco

Public Administration Faculty-in-Charge
First Semester, AY 2020-2021
Monday, 7:00pm -10:00pm
Email Address: [email protected]
Facebook Acct: Milhaya D. Langco-Abdulatifh
Contact No. 0945-6842-331 (Globe)

Course Description: An introductory course on the theory and practice of public administration,
covering the ideas, issues, trends and processes in public administration as a field of study and
as a practice.

Expected Learning Outcomes. At the end of the course, students should be able to:

1. Develop a critical appreciation of Public Administration as a field of study;

2. Explain the key concepts, perspectives and principles of Public Administration as it
evolved as a field of study;
3. Relate the basic concepts, perspectives and principles of public administration as a field
of study in its practice, processes, and operations;
4. Identify and apply concepts and ideas on public administration and management in
understanding and analyzing public sector operations; and
5. Analyze the dynamics of reform, partnership, participation and governance in the public
sector.

Course Requirements

1. Active participation in class discussion (10%). As incoming graduate studies in the MPA
program, you are expected to come to class, and to come prepared for the discussions
by ensuring that you read the assigned course materials. You are also expected to
participate actively in the discussions.
2. Annotated bibliography (15 %). This requirement will help you gain familiarity with
searching for and citing relevant materials in public administration, and capturing their
essence and arguments. References used here for your annotations may also be used as
inputs in your review of literature and analytical paper. You can use your annotated
bibliography as basis for developing your review of literature.
3. Review of Literature (15%). To help you gain an appreciation of the concepts and ideas
in public administration, you are required to submit a review of literature on any two of
the following: bureaucracy, new public management, and governance. The review of the
literature should be able to describe their major contributions in our understanding of
 public administration, their defining characteristics, propositions or assumptions and
distinction from others, their limitations or boundaries, and examples of their
application in the practice of public administration.

You can use your review of literature to become a section of your analytical paper.

4. Analytical paper (30%). The emphasis of the requirement is submission of an

“analytical” paper, rather than just an academic paper. The focus of the paper must be a
contemporary issue or topic in public administration. Select a concept, model or theory
of public administration which we have discussed in class, or which you have discovered
or explored on your own readings, and use that to explain, analyze or clarify the issue or
topic. The paper must include an adequate discussion of the concept, model or theory
(see item number 2 on review of literature); a clear discussion of how the concept,
model, or theory when applied to a particular development issue generates insight on, a
particular way of explanation, or new understanding of the issues; and a critical
discussion of the limitations and constraints of the model in explaining the topic.

Enrolment in the MPA program entails a commitment to write a paper every semester.
This should be clear to you when you decided to enroll in the program. You are
expected to gain familiarity in using citation systems and in doing research.

You must practice wisdom and discretion in selecting your sources and materials to be
used for their paper. A practical skill that you will develop through this requirement is
the ability to discern the quality, integrity, and accuracy of the information you will use
for the paper. As you should have long found out, the internet provides a wealth
information that is useful, as well as a trove of trash.

Plagiarism is a major influence punishable by disqualification if not expulsion from the

university. You must also avoid the temptation of cutting and pasting from the internet
because the result is downright ugly.

Topics must be approved by your faculty in charge.

5. Oral report (10%). You will be assigned to briefly discuss an assigned reading. The
discussion should not be more than 10 minutes, or about 7 powerpoint slides. Aside
from honing your analytical and presentation skills, this requirement also builds your
ability to work with others and to contribute to common learning and to be individually
accountable to the class.

6. Final examination (20%). A sit-down test or a short-period- take-home test, covering

topics and issues discussed in class.
 COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS

I. Introduction and Overview of the Course

II. The Nature, Meaning and Dynamics of the State and of Public Administration

Reyes, Danilo. 1993. “Bureaucracy and Transition: Some Reflections on

Redemocratization and Politics-Administration Dichotomy” in Bautista, et. al. (eds)
Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (1 st ed.). Q.C.: UP-
CPA, (hereinafter referred to as “Bautista, et. al., A Reader”) pp.76-102.

Stillman, Richard J. 2010. “The Search for the Scope and Purpose of Public
Administration.” in Stillman II (ed.). Public Administration: Concepts and Cases. 9th ed.,
Boston MA: Wadsworth, pp.1-6.

Reyes, Danilo. 2015. “The Study of Public Administration in Perspective: A

Passing Review of the Development of the Discipline.” In D. Reyes, P. Tapales, M. O.
Domingo and M.F. Mendoza (eds.) Introduction to Public Administration in the
Philippines: A Reader (3rd ed., Vol. 1). Quezon City: UP-NCPAG, pp.3-29.

Kuhn, Thomas. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd ed., Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.

Wilson, Woodrow. 1887. “The Study of Administration”. Political Science

Quarterly, Vol. 2 (June, 1887), as reprinted in Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde (eds.).
1997. Classics of Public Administration. (4th ed.). Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace and
Co., pp.14-26.

III. Foundations of Public Administration Theory and Practice

A. Public Administration and the Influences of the Multi-Disciplinary Evolution of

Management Thought

Henry, Nicholas. 2007. “Public Administration’s Century in a Quandary” (Ch. 2).

Public Administration and Public Affairs. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. pp.26-47.

Stillman, Richard J. II. 2010. “The Search for the Scope and Purpose of Public
Administration,” (Ch. 1) and “The Study of Public Administration in the United States:
‘The Eminently Practical Science.’ “ (Ch.2) in Stillman II (ed.). Public Administration:
Concepts and Cases. 9th ed., Boston MA: Wadsworth, pp.1-6; 17-30.

The following articles and essays reprinted and abridged in Jay M. Shafritz and
Albert C. Hyde (eds.). 1997. Classics of Public Administration. (4th ed.). Fort Worth,
Texas: Harcourt Brace anaad Co. Frank J. Goodnow. 1990. “Politics and Administration”
pp.27-29, Frederick W. Taylor. 1912. “Scientific Management”. Pp. 30-32, Max Weber.
1946. “Bureaucracy”. Pp.37-43; Leonard White. 1926. “Introduction to the Study of
Public Administration” pp.44-52; Luther Gulick. 1937. “Notes on the Theory of
Organization” pp.81-89; Herbert Simon. 1946. “The Proverbs of Administration” pp. 127-
141.

B. Perspectives, Approaches and Critiques: Reform Movements, Directions and

Developments in the Field

Nabatchi, Tina. 2010. “The (Re)discovery of the Public in Public Administration.”

Public Administration Review. (December). Vol. 70, Supplement No. 1. Pp.S309-S311.

Reyes, Danilo R. 2003. “Public Sector Reengineering: Practice, Problems and

Prospects”. In Bautista, et. al. (eds.). Introduction to Public Administration in the
Philippines: A Reader (2nd ed.). Q.C.: UP-NCPAG, pp. 157-174. (Also in Philippine Journal
of Public Administration. Vol. 42, Nos. 3 & 4 (July-October, 1998), pp. 184-202.

Ocampo, Romeo B. 2003. “Models of Public Administration Reform: ‘New Public

Management’.” In Bautista, et. al. (eds.) Introduction to Public Administration in the
Philippines: A Reader (2nd ed.). Q.C.: UP-NCPAG, pp. 147-156.

Heinrich, Carolyn J. 2013. “Public Management.” In Mark Bevir (ed.). The SAGE
Handbook of Governance. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Ltd. 252-
269.

Osborne, Stephen and Kate McLaughlin. 2002. “The New Public Management in
context.” In K. McLaughlin, S. Osborne and E. Ferlie (eds). New Public Management:
Current Trends and Future Prospects. London and New York: Routledge, pp.7-14.

Pollitt, Christopher. 2002. “The New Public Management in international

perspective.” In K. McLaughlin, S. Osbore and E. Ferlie (eds). New Public Management:
Current Trends and Future Prospects. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 274-292.

Reyes, Danilo R. 2001. “An Overview of Current Developments in the Study and
Practice of Public Administration.” Philippine Journal of Public Administration. (July).
Pp.225-241.

Frederickson, George. 1971. “Toward a New Public Administration” in Marini

(ed.) Toward a New Public Administration: The Minnowbrook Perspective, Scranton:
Chandler.

Osborne, David and Ted Gaebler. 1992. Reinventing Government, New York:
Penguin, “Introduction: An American Perestroika,” pp.25-48.
 Moe, Ronald C. 1994. “The Reinventing Government’ Exercise: Misinterpreting
the Problem, Misjudging the Consequences.” Public Administration Review. 55 (2)
(March/April), pp.111-122.

Hammer, Michael and James Champy. 1993. Reengineering the Corporation: A

Manifesto for Business Revolution. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers.

Halachmi, Arie. 1995. “Re-engineering and public management: some issues and
considerations.” International Review of Administrative Science. 61 (3) (September),
pp. 329-341.

Reyes, Danilo R. 1997. “Controversies in Public Administration: Enduring Issues

and Questions in Bureaucratic Reform.” Philippine Journal of Public Administration.
(Jan-Oct). pp. 277-300.

Reynaers, Anne-Marie. 2014. “Public Values in Public-Private Partnerships”.

Public Administration Review. (Jan-Feb). Vol. 74, No. 1. Pp.41-50.

IV. Public Administration in the Philippines

A. Public Administration as Field of Study in the Philippines

Brillantes, Alex B., Jr. and Maricel Fernandez. 2015. “Is There a Philippine Public
Administration? Or Better Still, For Whom Is Philippine Public Administration”. in D.
Reyes, P. Tapales, M. O. Domingo and M.F. Mendoza (eds., Vol. 1) Introduction to Public
Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (3 rd ed.). Quezon City: UP-NCPAG, pp.107-
132.

Reyes, Danilo R. 2015. “History and Context of the Development of Public

Administration in the Philippines.” In D. Reyes, P. Tapales, M.O. Domingo and M. F.
Mendoza (eds.) Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (3 rd
ed., Vol. 1). Quezon City: UP-NCPAG, pp. 51-73. (Also found in Evan Berman (ed.). Public
Administration in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Hongkong and
Macao. Boca Raton: CRC Press and Taylor and Francis Group).

Reyes, Danilo R. 2012. “Public Administration in the Philippines: Meeting the

Challenges of Government and Governance”. In V. Miralao and J. Agbisit (eds).
Philippine Social Sciences: Capacities, Directions and Challenges. Q.C.: PSSC. Pp. 74-95.

De Guzman, Raul. 2003. “Is There a Philippine Public Administration?” In

Bautista, et. al. (eds.) Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines: A Reader
(2nd ed.). Q.C.: UP-NCPAG, pp.3-11.
 Corpuz, Onofre D. 1993. “Is There a Philippine Public Administration?”. In
Bautista, et. al. (eds.) Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines: A Reader
(1st ed.). Q.C.: UP-NCPAG, pp. 12-19.

Endriga, Jose. 2015. “Stability and Change: The Civil Service in the Philippines.” In
D. Reyes, P. Tapales, M. O. Domingo and M.F. Mendoza (eds.) Introduction to Public
Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (3 rd ed., Vol. 1). Quezon City: UP-NCPAG,
pp. 267-283.

Briones, Leonor M. 2015. “The Political Economy and Civil Service Reform.” In D.
Reyes, P. Tapales, M.O. Domingo and M.F. Mendoza (eds.) Introduction to Public
Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (3 rd ed.). Quezon City: UP-NCPAG, pp. 309-
327.

Reyes, Danilo. 2003. “Public Administration in the Philippines: History, Heritage

and Hubris”. ?” In Bautista, et. al. (eds.) Introduction to Public Administration in the
Philippines: A Reader (2nd ed.). Q.C.: UP-NCPAG, pp.38-64.

Reyes, Danilo. 1993. “The Identity Crisis in Public Administration Revisited” ?”. In
Bautista, et. al. (eds.) Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines: A Reader
(1st ed.). Q.C.: UP-NCPAG, pp. 18-38.

Reyes, Danilo. 1995. “Life Begins at Forty: An Inquiry on Administrative Theory in

the Philippines and the Structure of Scientific Revelations,” in P. Tapales, N. Pilar and N.
Romblon, (eds.), Public administration by the Year 2000: Looking Back into the Future.
U.P. CPA: Quezon City.

B. Public Administration Dynamics, Processes and Issues in the Philippines

Domingo Ma. Olivia and Danilo Reyes. 2015. “Performance Management Reform
in the Philippines.” In D. Reyes, P. Tapales, M.O. Domingo and M.F. Mendoza (eds.)
Introduction to Public Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (3 rd ed.). Quezon
City: UP-NCPAG, pp. 215-238. (Also found in Evan Berman (ed.). Public Administration
in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Hongkong and Macao. Boca Raton:
CRC Press and Taylor and Francis Group).

Carlos, Clarita R. 2004. Towards Bureaucratic Reform: Issues and Challenges.

Makati CIty: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Ch. 2. “What Has Been Done in the Past?”
pp.9-73.

R.A. 7160. The Local Government Code of 1991. (An Act Providing for the Local
Government Code of 1991). October, 1991.
 R.A. 9485. The Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007. (An Act to Improve Efficiency in the
Delivery of Government Service to the Public by Reducing Bureaucratic Red Tape,
Preventing Graft and Corruption, and Providing Penalties Therefor), June, 2007.

Local Government Academy and UNDP. Unpacking the Local Government Code
of 1991. Manila: UNDP. (no date).

Brillantes, Alex. 1993. “Decentralization in the Philippines: An Overview” in

Bautista, et. al. A Reader, pp.368-381.

Presidential Committee on Streamlining the Bureaucracy, DBM. 1995. Re-

engineering the Bureaucracy for Better Governance: Principles and Parameters.
Manila: Department of Budget and Management.

Sosmena, Gaudioso Sr. 1991. Decentralization and Empowerment. Manila:

LOGODEF.

Executive Order 292. (The Philippine Administrative Code). 1987.

V. Public Administration, Governance, Globalization and National Development: Issues,

Problems and Visions

A. Development Concepts, Sustainable Human Development, Globalization,

Reform and Accountability and Public Administration
Willis, Katies. 2005. Theories and Practices of Development. London and New
York: Routledge.
Todaro, Michael. 1982. Economics for a Developing World, (2nd ed.) “The
Meaning of Development” Ch. 6.
Hunt, Dianan. 1982. Economic Theories of Development: An Analysis of
Competing Paradigms, Ch. 1 & 2.
United Nations Development Programme. 1997. Integrating Human Rights with
Sustainable Development. New York: UNDP.
Gant, George. 1979. Development Administration, Concepts, Goals and
Methods. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Reyes, Danilo. 1993. “The Crisis of Underdevelopment: A Reexamination of
Economic Model of Development in the Third World,” in Bautista, et. al. A Reader, pp.
239-267.
Briones, Leonor. 2002. “Globalization, Nationalism and Public Administration:
Challenges and Response”. In Bautista, et. al. (eds.). Introduction to Public
 Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (2 nd ed.). Q.C.: UP-NCPAG, pp. 77-108 (Also
in Philippine Journal of Public Administration. (Jan-Oct, 1997), pp.1-32.
ASEAN Secretariat. 2008. The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint.
http://www.asean.org/archive/5187-10.pdf.
Meadocroft, James. 2013. “Sustainable Development”. In Mark Bevir (ed). The
SAGE Handbook of Governance. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: sage Publications, Ltd.
535-551.
Reyes, Danilo. 1993. “Tensions in the Troubled Bureaucracy: Reform Initiatives in
Public Organizations and Service Delivery Systems”. Philippine Journal of Public
Administration (July), pp.293-264.
Republic Act 6713 (Code of Ethics and Standards), February, 1989 and the Civil
Service Commission Implementing Guidelines, April, 1989.
UN Millennium Project. 2005. Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to
Achieve the Millennium development Goals. New York: Millennium Project.
B. Governance and the Evolving Field of Public Administration: The Redefinition
of the Roles of the State, the Market, Civil Society and the Citizen.
Domingo Ma. Olivia. 2015. “Reforming the Bureucracy: Can Citizens
Participate?.” In D. Reyes, P. Tapales, M.O. Domingo and M.F. Mendoza (eds.) Introduction
to Public Administration in the Philippines: A Reader (3rd ed.). Quezon City: UP-NCPAG,
pp. 295- 307.
Reyes, Danilo. 2012. “Revisiting the Public Sector Reform Agenda: Towards
Active Citizenship and the Corruption Conundrum”. Philippine Journal of Public
Administration (July-December), pp.89-126.
Reyes, Danilo. 2011. “Public Policy and the Imperatives of Good Governance:
Towards Institutionalizing Active Citizen Participation.” International Journal of Policy
Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1 (July) pp. 3-15. (A paper presented at the International Conference
on “Fairness in Public Policy: Efficiency, Equity and Beyond” of the Korean Association
for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea, June 17-18, 2011).
Reyes, Danilo. 2011. “Citizen Participation and Public Sector Reform: Is
Collaborative Governance the Answer?” Asian Review of Public Administration. Vol. 22,
No. 1, pp.17-31. (A paper presented at the World Civic Forum (EROPA Panel), COEX,
Seoul, Republic of Korea, May 5-8, 2009).
Pan Suk Kim, et. al. 2005. “Toward Participatory and Transparent Governance:
Report on the Sixth Global Forum on Reinventing Government.” Public Administration
Review. Vol. 65 No. 6 (November/ December), pp.646-654.
 Mele, Valentina. 2005. “Paradigm and Practice: The Innovative Organization to
Deal with E-Government.” Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (ed.). Practicing E-Government: A
Global Perspective. London and PA: The Idea Group Publishing, pp.289-309.
Bevir, Mark, R.A.W. Rhodes and Patrick Weller. 2003. “Traditions of Governance:
Interpreting the Changing Role of the Public Sector. Public Administration. Vol. 81, No.
1, pp.1-17.
Hirst, Paul. 2000. “Democracy and Governance” in Jon Pierre (ed.) Debating
Governance. Oxford University Press: New York, pp.13-35.
Rhodes, R.A.W. 2000. “Governance and Public Administration” in Jon Pierre (ed.)
Debating Governance. Oxford University Press: New York, pp.54-90.
United Nations Development Programme. 1997. Reconceptualizing Governance.
(Discussion paper 2) (January). New York: UNDP, pp.1-20; and 21-53.
United Nations Development Programme. 1997. Governance for sustainable
human development. (January), New York: UNDP.
OTHE READINGS MAY BE SUPPLIED DURING THE CONDUCT OF THE COURSE