Whither the Trends, Innovations and Expertise of the New Public Administration?

Abstract

New Public Administration, NPA is of theoretical terminological usage enhancing bureaucratic modalities of government institutions. It tends to provide diverse administrative services to the general populace via the application of public policies. The concept of the NPA or NPA theory involves: Democratic citizenship that invariably posits the doctrine of formulating a government in which every person irrespective of status has a participatory impact in politics. To achieve this, it is pertinent for citizens to be informed, aware, knowledgeable, and active in communities and nations of their abode or origin. The NPA emerged as a 1970s movement to tackle the challenges, constraints, demands and opportunities of the public sector research in the economy and sustainable development. Its emphasis is for public administrators to be not merely managers but, also to inculcate and incorporate citizen participation and responsiveness into work and performance to make public administration increasingly democratic and efficient. The difference between the old public administration, PA and NPA is that public administration is the implementation of government policies. Nowadays, public administration comprises certain responsibilities to determine the policies and programmers of governments. Precisely, PA, also known as government administration encompasses the planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling of operations in government and governance.