New Public Administration and Nigeria’s Administrative Ecology: Analysis & Applications

Abstract

We analytically put the concept of New Public Administration into perspective in this paper. In the process, we traced its genealogy and its provisions as well as demonstration of its applicability in a country like Nigeria. Prominence was given to the structures and ecology of the Nigerians public administrative cycle. Within the same context, the issue of hierarchical authorities, representative bureaucracy as well as corruption impedes its process. Consequent on these, conclusively We argued that there is need for a re-orientation of the Nigeria citizenries most importantly, the public bureaucrates to imbibe the constructs of the new public administration vis-à-vis the “new thinking” through the pursuance of social equity.

Keywords: Public Administration, New Public Administration, Administrative Ecology.