The challenges of knowledge production by researchers in Public Administration, a South African perspective
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Authors
Wessels, J.S.
Issue Date
2005
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Article
Language
en
Keywords
Knowledge production , Challenges , Public administration , Researchers , South Africa
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Abstract
This article reflects on the challenges of knowledge production by researchers in
South African Public Administration. It tries to establish whether published Public
Administration research findings indeed address the core knowledge needs of
government by solving those problems which cannot be solved by competent public
officials. An analysis is, inter alia, done of (a) articles published in a South African
peer-reviewed journal for Public Administration, (b) the research focus areas of the
National Research Foundation (NRF), (c) the Practices for Effective Local
Government developed by the International City/County Management Association
(ICMA), and (d) of the address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the
second joint sitting of the third democratic Parliament, Cape Town on 11 February
2005. This article concludes that South African scholars in Public Administration, on
the one hand, and government, on the other hand, at least have a shared
awareness of what needs to be known in the field.
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Unisa Press
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10113487