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Awareness and Information Sources of Hypertensive Diseases Among Aged Civil Servants in Southwest, Nigeria

Omiunu, Ojinga Gideon - In: International Journal of Public Health Management and … 3 (2018) 1, pp. 38-54

This article describes a study which investigates the awareness and information sources of hypertensive diseases among aged civil servants in Southwest, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and the study focused on aged civil servants in south western Nigeria. A...

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Does Bureaucracy Stifle Moral Agency?

Adewale, Adeyinka - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 4 (2017) 2, pp. 1-13

Bureaucracy has been around us since the earliest human societies and has been the cornerstone of ancient and modern … bureaucracy is at the foundations of our modern societies, its role in this trend cannot be ignored hence the purpose of this … wars to our modern capitalist society is presented. Second, bureaucracy is conceptualised with a clear focus on Weber …

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Informating Public Governance: Towards a Basis for a Digital Ecosystem

Paulin, Alois A. - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 4 (2017) 2, pp. 14-32

This treatise explores the possibilities and constraints to informate public governance. Informating as used in this context refers to the ability to technically control / steer the core provision of public governance by means of information technology, rather than steering public governance...

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Public Participation Distribution and Marketing: An Inseparable Duality

Kabst, Rüdiger; Weber, Patrick; Wagner, Sascha Alexander - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 4, pp. 1-13

The distribution of public participation in Western political environments has become an important topic in recent years. Low participation rates combined with low levels of trust toward government officials has resulted in low efficiency of public participation projects. Whereas prior research...

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Exploring Digitally Enabled Service Transformation in the Public Sector: Would Institutional and Structuration Theory Concepts Keep the Research Talking?

Weerakkody, Vishanth; Omar, Amizan; El-Haddadeh, Ramzi - In: International Journal of Electronic Government Research … 12 (2016) 4, pp. 1-14

Digitally Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) in the Public Sector (PS) offers a unique opportunity for public administration (PA) and information systems (IS) disciplines to interlace. Albeit complicating the deployment of a coherent analytical lens in its study, such uniqueness has formed a...

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Digital City Projects: Information and Public Services Offered by Chicago (USA) and Curitiba (Brazil)

Rezende, Denis Alcides - In: International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) 7 (2016) 3, pp. 16-30

Offering full information and efficient public services is a permanent challenge for cities concerned with citizens' quality of life and effective municipal management. The objective of this study is to describe and assess the digital city projects in Chicago (USA) and Curitiba (Brazil), using...

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Governments' Need for Digitization Skills: Understanding and Shaping Vocational Training in the Public Sector

Ogonek, Nadine; Hofmann, Sara - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 5 (2018) 4, pp. 61-75

This article describes how while confronted with digitization, governments need to equip their employees with skills for dealing with the upcoming technologies. To date, however, there has been no thorough analysis of which skills governments actually require and how these skills are addressed...

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e-Solidarity and Exchange: The Role of Social Media in Public Mexican Response to Hurricane Patricia in 2015

Plascencia, David Ramírez; Plascencia, Jorge Ramírez - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 4 (2017) 3, pp. 1-10

Between October 24 and 25 in 2015, Mexico faced the strongest hurricane ever registered in the Western Hemisphere …

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Using Social Media to Inform and Engage Urban Dwellers in La Paz, Mexico

Basolo, Victoria; Yerena, Anaid - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 4 (2017) 3, pp. 11-28

of La Paz, Mexico. Consistent with previous work, the Facebook profile reflected relatively low usage, a propensity …

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