An Approach to the Paradigms of Public Administration in Ecuador, from a Purely Bibliometric Study

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.