In his article “The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budgetary Reform” (1966), Allen Schick focuses on the aspects of the effective budgetary reform which could provide the significant positive changes in relation to national budgeting and the role of government in the process.
However, instead of discussing the innovative approaches to budgeting, Schick pays attention to the previous strategies used to reform the budgeting system in the country. The author states that earlier the government used rather developed approaches to budgeting with references to effective planning and management of the changes in the system.
Schick’s work contributes to the filed of public administration with references to discussing the budgetary reform as one of the major government’s functions and presenting the procedure as the influential reform related to the public sector (Shafritz & Hyde, 2011, p. 217-232).
The aspects of the American federalism are discussed in the work “The American System” written by Morton Grodzins in 1966. Grodzins states that the government could perform more effectively in the situation of sharing the government’s functions within all the government’s levels and departments.
This specific approach to regulating the American federal system could contribute to responding to the national and local interests as well as to creating the concept of New Federalism which is shared today in relation to public administration.
The work by Grodzins is significant to conclude about the current involvement of the government in public administration in comparison with the previous periods (Shafritz & Hyde, 2011, p. 233-237).
Today, the progress of public administration principles is closely connected with the development of new forms of organizations relying on modern government, cooperation between companies, and avoidance of bureaucratic methods (Cox, Buck, & Morgan, 2010, p. 157). The prediction of these processes is provided in the work “Organizations of the Future” (1967) by Warren Bennis.
The author concentrates on the processes which led to the decline of bureaucratic methods in regulating the work of organizations and tries to determine the principles according to which organizations could develop in the future.
Bennis pays attention to the usage of innovative technologies, focus on changes and reformation and changes in the management of companies which are expected to become larger and more complex in their organization.
Furthermore, the author states that the organizations of the future are more flexible in their structures and functions because of depending on integration, collaboration, and partnership (Shafritz & Hyde, 2011, p. 238-249).
The contribution of the article written by Bennis in 1967 to the modern study of public administration is significant because of predicting the factors which are important today for the progress of organizations and their relations with public administration.
Yehezkel Dror published the article “Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Government Service” in 1967, but it is still useful to discuss the role of policy analysis in the filed of public administration because the author was the first researcher who focused on the importance of combing the approaches typical for economics and methods of quantitative analysis in the context of public administration development.
In his article, Dror focuses on the policy analysis of public administration’s decisions and strategies as the effective tool to improve the field of public administration and other services provided by the government (Shafritz & Hyde, 2011, p. 250-257). As a result, today the policy analysis discussed by the author is the procedure studied and followed in the field of public administration.
References
Cox, R., Buck, S., & Morgan, B. (2010). Public administration in theory and practice. USA: Pearson.
Shafritz, J., & Hyde, A. (2011). Classics of public administration. USA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.