RESOURCE MATERIAL SERIES No. 56 COMMUNITY POLICING IN THE CONTEXT OF SINGAPORE Jarmal Singh* I. INTRODUCTION Singapore has grown in many ways over the last 40 years to become a city-state that enjoys a high level of economic growth, political stability and most importantly, a sense of safety and security. It was not a smooth journey, as the country experienced its turbulent periods in the […]

Irene Rubin identifies several common themes in budgetary decision-making. One of those is the tension between openness and secrecy. Please evaluate this dynamic and its implications for public budgeting. What, if any, legitimate reasons might exist for secrecy? In what ways might secrecy be used for political purposes? From a public administration perspective, the other themes of democracy, transparency, and trust in the concept of […]

Principles of Public Administration 1. 0 Introduction. This article discusses how have principles of public administration been applied to positively advance each of the following fields: education, transportation, health care, community development, law enforcement, and environmental policy. Also, the article hypothesizes what would become of the aforementioned services in the absence of a public administration system. The means by which public administration achieves its goals […]

POSDCoRB is a mnemonic term developed by Luther Gulick in 1937 to represent the functions of the executive. “These essential functions-Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting-provide a sort of administrative prescription which should be followed by any competent administrator. ” (Blumberg, p. 247) These functions compose a single aspect of the author’s Notes on the Theory of Organization, which discusses the elements necessary […]