TITLE:
An Approach to the Paradigms of Public Administration in Ecuador, from a Purely Bibliometric Study
AUTHORS:
Nancy del Rocio Flores Hinojosa, Alexander Báez Hernández
KEYWORDS:
Political Science, State Management, People’s Power, Public Administration, Text Mining, Bibliometrics
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.1,
January
13,
2022
ABSTRACT: Describing
the situation of the Ecuadorian Public Administration, like that of any other
country, is obviously not an easy task. In the first place, due to the absence
of research in this field and secondly because its problems can never be fully
quantified, especially because each of them, in turn, contains a number of
other problems or sub-problems, weaving a true network of interrelationships to
even shape what could be classified as a system of problems. The purpose of
this scientific contribution is to show the bibliometric performance of the
Public Administration paradigms. To achieve this purpose, an exhaustive
bibliographic review of the literature and published articles related to this
topic is carried out in the academic and research database Scopus. The results
of this work expose the following points: 1) Paradigms of public administration, a strictly
bibliometric analysis; 2) The
public administration in Ecuador; 3) Social reality of the Ecuadorian context; 4) Reality of Public Administration at the National
Level in Ecuador. The main conclusions highlight that: 1) If a comparison is made between the past and the
present, public administration was not conceived as a science, much less talked
about the public, the states work daily depending on the urgent activities that
were necessary to execute them, unaware that this theory is the foundation for
the application of an order within the organization; 2) It can be established that the study of public
administration is a very broad and dynamic fact to understand, not only because
it is analyzed from the point of view of the social sciences, where the purpose
is the fulfillment of collective needs, as well as also the study of the norms
that must be applied for the correct development of the state apparatus studied
as an activity.