Author(s)

Tamaraubibibogha Manfred Gunuboh

Public Administration, Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA.

This analytical paper explores how efficiency becomes a key concept in a business organization, and its later migration into the public administration as a crucial element for professionalizing public administration. The attempt to professionalize public administration was intended to insulate it from the manipulative spheres of politics; however, as administration geared toward efficiency, differences in values and preferences that are characteristic of the complex human society become discounted. Moreover, the romance of administration with an econometric concept such as efficiency complicated its integration into democracy. It is thus argued in this analytical paper that if administration should be infused into democracy it must incline less to the values of efficiency, but establish structures that would enable a faction to counteract faction; it is through such arrangements that the varieties of organized political, economic, and social interests and values that are characteristic of the public could be represented in the administrative processes.

Efficiency, Public Administration, and Democracy

Gunuboh, T. (2023) Efficiency as a Central Concept in the Science of Administration, Fact and Value-Contexts in the Administrative Processes, and Democracy. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11, 108-119. doi: 10.4236/jss.2023.116009.