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Journal of Public Administration (JOPA)

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Sovereignty and scholarship : can scholarship be sovereign? A case for (South) African public administration

Author: F.M. Lucky Mathebula

Affiliation: 1Tshwane University of Technology 2Uganda Technology and Management University, Uganda

Source: Journal of Public Administration, 2023-03-16 19:17:49

Accreditation: Department of Higher Education and Training(DHET)



Abstract: Sovereignty and scholarship : can scholarship be sovereign? A case for (South) African public administration

Scholarship in the developing world, with the public administration scholarship as the proximate abstraction of what maybe general, is not simply different from its predecessors in the developed world. It is more decadent. It generates an almost natural and implicit demand for it to take a stance, generally socio-political, that affects its style in such a way that scholarship itself comes to symbolise a particular paradigmatic orientation that alters its originative historical character. As a consequence, scholarship in developing world ends up on a quicksand type intellectual base that sunk deeper into its 'imposed inadequacy' whilst at the same time making its sovereignty vulnerable. Its reliance on conceptual frameworks that are not original and congruent to the contextual realities of the public administration milieu they purport to be instructing, discourage the high quality socio-political eclectic of the study of the