Abstract

The concept of governance can enhance the future of public administration through emphasizing the role of civil society, and allowing the discursive democratic voices to find original democratic values in public administration situations. That is to say, governance can be of help for the movement toward transcending public administration. If we lived in a small city nation like an ancient Athens in Greece, we would not have to worry about the whole process of public policy decision-making, implementation, evaluation, and so on, because every citizen in Athens could participate, be involved in discourse and discussions, and could utilize any single communicative skill for the discursive process and deliberation. However, in the real world, it cannot be realized and also, traditional ideas regarding public administration which are positivistic, structural, functionalistic and bureaucratic cannot be totally replaced by discursive democracy. Therefore, we need to try to use dialectic approach. This means that we can attain benefits from both positivistic views and anti-positivistic views of public administration. This also means that we need a contingency model of these diversities regarding public administration in the future and we should never forget the importance of balance in our rapidly changing world.