Euro-med: Public Management and Good Local Governance

• Published in: Procedia, social and behavioral sciences social and behavioral sciences, 2014-03, Vol.124, p.528-535
• Main Authors: Hokayem, Jihad El, Kairouz, Akl
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: bureaucracy; local government; planning; public management; public wealth; strategic decentralization
• ISSN: 1877-0428; 1877-0428
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.02.516

Public management is not merely a science that includes future visions, innovations, trust, and cost-efficiency in resolving administrative problems; it is the art of managing public wealth and resources. It focuses upon finding effective and long term solutions to handle public, economic, social, psychological, legal, ecological, and educational issues through transparency, strategic planning, commitment, and trust. These public values and achievements cannot materialize in a heavily centralized administrative system where all powers of governing are centered in individual or elite hands generating a long list of problems such as corruption, inefficiency, and mismanagement through ineffective bureaucracy. The research question for this paper revolves around highlighting the significance and value of local governance (decentralization) within a democratic and affective public management system to sustain higher quality of life for citizens. The proposed methodology of research, though complemented by secondary data, will vastly rely on primary sources based on a number of semi structured interviews conducted with experts in the fields that encompass administrators, professors, industrialists etc…Following the data analysis, a conclusion with recommendations will be offered.