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PIA 3090 COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Week Six: Socialization, Motivation and Values
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The Main Event Golden Oldies Literary Map The Grand Synthesis
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PERSONS OF THE WEEK David Osborne and Ted Gabler John Armstrong Question: Can Bureaucracy be reformed? David Osborne
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Administrative Culture: Overview Socialization and Bureaucratic Behavior The Concept of political and Administrative Culture A mixture of elite and mass culture
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THESIS Political Culture can predict political behavior Culture limits the action of citizens and administrators, channels demands and excludes certain possible policy options
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The Concept of Political Culture a. People are tied to a unique web of historical experiences b. Assumption: From the general culture one can extract out the salient aspects of that culture that relate to political behavior and administrative traditions
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Danish Political Culture: Re. Housing Sub-Cultures Groups 1, 2 and 4 constitute the traditional political culture, also found in the labour movement, Groups 3 and 6 constitute a user-oriented political culture based on functional participation in single issues; whereas group 7 contains the very active political elite.
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The Concept Continued c. Organizational Culture is a sub- set of broader cultural assumptions d. In looking for evidence of a political or an administrative culture we are looking for a set of representative values for the people of that society
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Organizational Culture: The Ideal Type
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Two Assumptions 1. Many cultures: regional, administrative, ethnic, professional, etc. including hierarchy of values 2. These are effected by historical origin, race, gender, education, region, etc.
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The Key Three dimensions of Culture
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Three components of Culture a. Information and Measurable Understanding b. Beliefs and Values c. Emotions
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Components of Culture
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The Cognitive Dimension- What people know. a. The set of historical and cultural information to which any native of the society is automatically tuned in b. All societies have their peculiarities which are part of their political culture
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The Evaluative Dimension- Not the is but the what ought to be a. What is good and bad b. U.S.- Military service good, welfare cheaters bad
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Evaluation
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Emotive
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The Emotive Dimension- The emotional attachment that people have to their political system a. Symbolism and myth, anthems and flags b. Provides the strength of values c. Nationalism- “My country right or wrong”
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Socialization 1. Process by which political attitudes are formed and maintained 2. Acquisition of values, beliefs, and knowledge about the political system on both the individual and community level 3. Cultural transmission across generations- the introduction of new generations to the beliefs and values of the old
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Socialization
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The Way Things Are Learned May be cognitive, evaluative or emotional Vague Patriotic image- eg. U.S. paternal- President as "super-friend" and father image (shattered by Watergate and post- Watergate- See Bob Woodward’s Books About Bush (and Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin) Societal and community definitions Personal identification with government
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Values and Learning SNL “Bob Woodward Arrested for Treason” (Fake)
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Socialization- Continued 1.Can be a conscious or an unconscious effort- as to how attitudes towards policy are formed 2.Issue of Cultural Engineering- Ideological and explicit 3.Revolutionary & Developmental Societies- Ideological and explicit
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Cultural Engineering
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Socialization- Continued U.S. and Western Europe- mostly indirect (Instrumental and implicit) Often hidden within a pragmatic, fairly loose value system
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Europe and Class
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The Crux of the Issue Socialization: Mass vs. elite (vs. Organizational) socialization
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Class and Governance Derk Jan Eppink:
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Levels of Socialization a. Primary- Most important: occurs within the family b. Secondary- Everything else before adulthood, school, peers, national and regional- it is here that cultural engineering occurs c. Tertiary- Professional and Organizational- Begins with University. Issue how specialization of bureaucratic elites is related to socialization and education
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Socialization and Public Service Discussion: John Armstrong- The European Administrative Elite
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Europe 2006
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Armstrong’s Thesis Asynchronous Comparison Status, Role Theory and Counter-Roles Socialization and the Diffusion of Development Doctrines The Prefect as Territorial Administrator and role in Development Intervention Back to Reality: Guinea’s Prefect as a Rent-Seeking Predator
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Values and Motivation: Redeux 1. Theory X vs. Theory Y 2. Maslov’s Hierarchy: Basic needs, social needs and ego needs 3. Application of Theories of Motivation outside the U.S. Case Study (China, Korea, South Africa and Brazil) 4. The Special problem of Fragile and Collapsed states. 5. The Importance of a Motivation Country in a Country Such as Guinea
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Assumption Political, Administrative Culture and Socialization have a major impact on organizational behavior. Question to Return to: Can we Re- invent Government given Premises about Socialization. (Osborne and Gabler)
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