NEW PUBLIC

ADMINISTRATION
BPA 4C
FOJAS, Praizen
BALODONG, Maria Cristina M.C.
GUILLENO, Michelle
JARITO, Alfredo M.
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• the term “New Public Administration” or New
PA may have emerged from the
Minnowbrook Conference in 1968 in
Syracuse University.
• The Conference was the brainchild and
inspiration of Dwight Waldo who brought
together young public administrators and
scholars to discuss important issues and
varying perspectives on public
administration.
• The conference created hullabaloo.
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• From 1960s to 1970s Era.

• This term has been argued as the
development of the old PA, given the fruition
of normative bureaucratic values of
government organization from old PA to the
new thrust.
• Frederickson(1971) in his essay titled
“Towards a New Public Administration”,
adds Social Equity to the classic definition of
PA.
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• Old PA focused only on the 3 Traditional E’s
(Efficiency, Economy and Effectiveness)
while
• New PA included values like social equity,
relevance, and client-orientedness (New PA
Values).
• The advocacy of the New PA considered a
commitment to social equity and the
enhancement of quality of life, thereby
treating workers no longer as mechanical
men but as social beings capable to achieve
their needs for satisfaction.
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• SOCIAL EQUITY has been the leading mandate

of this period, government efforts were geared at
achieving wider based services at the grass
roots.
EQUITY = equality among equals inequality
among unequals.
SOCIAL EQUITY = is the just distribution of
services, opportunities, income and wealth for
the benefit of the underprivileged people to the
widest range of coverage at the local levels.
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• Frederickson, argued that the traditional PA
sought only to answer inquiries on Efficiency
and Effectiveness like
“How can the government offfer better
services with available resources (Efficiency)?”
or
“How can managers maintain the level of
services while spending less money
(Economy)?”
• In introducing the principles of New PA, he adds
the questions,
“Does the service enhance Social Equity?”
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• Frederickson argued that disparities existed
because PA focused less on social purposes or
values of government policies and programs and
more on the Economy and Efficiency of
execution.
• The value-free and neutral stance of Traditional
PA have alienated the less privileged and
deprive groups in the society.
• New PAs proponents advocated public
administrators should not be neutral; they should
be submitted to both good government and
social equity as values to be achieved.
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• New PA then called for client-oriented
administration, non-bureaucratic structures,
participatory in decision-making, decentralized
administration and advocate administrators.
• With the above contentions, the theme New PA
is “CHANGE and the challenge for the public
administrators is their capacity to accept
change”.
• The processes of the New PA had likewise
shifted from traditional processes of organization
and management to the distributive, integrative,
boundary exchange and socio-emotional
processes.(Building Blocks of New PA)
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DISTRIBUTIVE PROCESSES = is the process

of externally allocating resources, goods and
services for the benefits of clients.

INTEGRATIVE PROCESSES
 modify bureaucracy, hierarchical structures; the
matrix organization, task force or project team,
and decentralized structures are supported as
effective integrating mechanisms or “alternates”
to the bureaucratic structure.
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BOUNDARY-EXCHANGE PROCESS
 highlights the relationships, interaction or
linkage between the public agency and its
reference groups, publics or clients.

SOCIO-EMOTIONAL PROCESS
 Complements the three other process by
bringing to bear a challenge in administrative
behavior that is “sensitive” to emotions, conflicts
and risks.
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