00000cab a22000004cb4500 IPP-00000152731 IPP 20180619154816.0 180619s2008 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Ocampo, Romeo B. From public administration to public management, from governance to governmentality conceptual challenges to public administration 2008 The original symposium question is rephrased in this article to start with the general one: "Is there (still) a Public administration?" with "...in the Philippines?" as a concluding subtext. "Yes" is the answer to both. But as a field of study and practice, Public Administration (PA) has undergone a number of identity crises and conceptual challenges from within and without. This article briefly describes and discusses the gauntlet presented by such key concepts as public management and public policy, e-government, and governmentality (the neologism coined by the French social historian and philosopher, Michel Foucault). PA has been buffeted by reforms and movements to broaden its concerns, to emulate private management, to adopt new technology, and to recognize a disaggregated and decentered (yet globalized) world in which the state and government are just two of the important actors. Development administration Governance Government information Internet resources Government productivity Philippines Holism Information and communication technologies Public administration Public policy (Law) Philippine Journal of Public Administration Vol. LII, no. 2-4 (Apr. 2008 - Oct. 2008), 91-118 UPD TMC Article FI