Essays on Civil Service

Administration Relationships

The relationships between the public policy-makers and the executors (civil servants) have attracted the attention of many scholars in the public administration, political science, public policy and law. The focus is on the relationship between the government, parliament, and the public service. However, the relationship between the federal bureaucracy and the elected policy-makers is crucial for the government functioning, its professional standards, as well as social credibility. Regardless of the perspective of the government being consistent, its texture, characteristics, operating principles and procedures vary from one public policy sector to another (Guess & Farnham, 2011, p. 315). This part focuses ...

Constitutional Development

The distinctions between the United States and other countries in the globe have been a fascinating subject for many scholars, dating back to the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville, who described America as an exceptional region in the early 19th century. Nearly two centuries later, work ethics and individualism in the country stand out from the rest of the planet. However, this particular essay looks at the leadership system in the United States. For the articulate development of the political and social ideologies in the nation, a comparison is created between America and the United Kingdom. The federal ...

The payoff for the planning effort comes in the implementation of the plan. The planning process creates a road map that the marketer must use to get where e want to go. Marketing planners have an advantage in that the hand –off from planning to implementation is likely to be something other than it is for other types of planning. Indeed, the same parties are likely to be involved in both activities. In order to approach plan implementation systematically, it is important to include adequate detail in the rejected plan and develop and implementation matrix. The project plan systematically ...

Is too much Power Given to The Prime Minister with the British System of Government?

Introduction More often than not, the American president is the one referred to as the most influential person in the world. However, there are some restraints put forth on the president’s power that is not present in Great Britain that is led by a Prime Minister. According to Bennister, (2012, p.43) "Prime Ministers have to act per the political, social, and economic situation in which they find themselves, and instead, have the power as well as resources to mold the environment they occupy either consciously or unconsciously." Additionally, within the political structure of Britain, the Prime Minister’s ...

The research problem will be to investigate whether the patrimonial political systems of Singapore and South Korea are democracies that surpass their liberal Western analogues in terms of national growth and even democratization in some ways. It appears that, contrary to the popular misperception, democracy is not necessarily a lack of restraint and complete discretion or at least a range of freedom like the right to media. Sometimes, states like Singapore being low on resources and facing external threats decide on less liberal norms and behaviors bordering on authoritarianism in specific aspects. Regulated merit-based selection practices and disciplining norms ...

THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS by Francis Robinson

The main supporting points of the article are the role of the Indian National Congress in the making of the Indian, as an empire and how the congress was able to create an organization setting with a framework of a nationalist movement which played a major role at all cost to raise the Indian political system to a higher point than the British would be willing to pay for. The parties win for the national cause has structured the national cause for making India one amongst the competitive system of the post-colonial era as a dominant party. Another main ...

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According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, two different kinds of inequality exist in a human society. There is natural and moral inequality. Natural inequality as the name suggest is as a result of nature. Here, things like differences in mind quality, age, bodily strength and health are at play to cause inequality. However, Rousseau believes that moral inequality also known as political inequality is instigated by men themselves. This may include privileges enjoyed by some people at the expense of the rest. For example, being wealthier, more powerful or even influential. Rousseau however was never concerned with natural ...

The Confucian civil service entrance examinations were designed to ensure that only the most capable and intellectually well endowed men joined the bureaucratic civil service in China. The examination was meant to ensure that recruitment of men into the civil service was through merit rather than through the basis of social status. The exam was administered in three levels, the district, provincial and national levels and was based on the study of the Confucian classical works to test the memory and intellectual ability of the candidates. The civil service examination system ensured that the bureaucracy that characterized the ...