Politic Administration Dichotomy
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA
FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PHILOSOPHY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT (PADM 901)
KUBAI IBRAHIM MICHAEL
M.Phil/ADMIN/2O383/2012-2013
THE POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION DICHOTOMY
BEING PAPER PRESENTED AS REQUAREMENT FOR CLASS ASSESSMENT.
DR. HAMZA YUSUF
SENIOR LECTURER DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA.
INTRODUCTION
The process of public administration consists of the actions involved in effecting the intent or desire of a government. It is thus the continuously active, “business” part of government, concerned with carrying out the law, as made by legislative bodies (or other authoritative agents) and interpreted by courts, through the processes of organization and management.
Some of the framers of the U.S. constitution and some early U.S. political leaders—for example, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson—gave attention to problems of public administration and wrote on them in ways that foreshadowed later developments. Indeed, there is no sharp point in history where the story of Public Administration begins. However, an essay by the then young Woodrow Wilson (1887) is often taken as the symbolic beginning. Certainly it was a remarkable essay in its perceptiveness, persuasiveness, and influence.
Wilson’s basic postulate was that “it is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one” ([1887] 1953, p. 67). Up to the nineteenth century, he noted, the predominant concerns of the study of governmental affairs were political philosophy, constitutional arrangements, and lawmaking.
Also important to the rise of Public Administration was the rise to self-consciousness of the discipline of political science, evidenced by the creation of the American Political Science Association in 1903. It is important that almost without exception those who might be called the founding fathers of Public
FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PHILOSOPHY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT (PADM 901)
KUBAI IBRAHIM MICHAEL
M.Phil/ADMIN/2O383/2012-2013
THE POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION DICHOTOMY
BEING PAPER PRESENTED AS REQUAREMENT FOR CLASS ASSESSMENT.
DR. HAMZA YUSUF
SENIOR LECTURER DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA.
INTRODUCTION
The process of public administration consists of the actions involved in effecting the intent or desire of a government. It is thus the continuously active, “business” part of government, concerned with carrying out the law, as made by legislative bodies (or other authoritative agents) and interpreted by courts, through the processes of organization and management.
Some of the framers of the U.S. constitution and some early U.S. political leaders—for example, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson—gave attention to problems of public administration and wrote on them in ways that foreshadowed later developments. Indeed, there is no sharp point in history where the story of Public Administration begins. However, an essay by the then young Woodrow Wilson (1887) is often taken as the symbolic beginning. Certainly it was a remarkable essay in its perceptiveness, persuasiveness, and influence.
Wilson’s basic postulate was that “it is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one” ([1887] 1953, p. 67). Up to the nineteenth century, he noted, the predominant concerns of the study of governmental affairs were political philosophy, constitutional arrangements, and lawmaking.
Also important to the rise of Public Administration was the rise to self-consciousness of the discipline of political science, evidenced by the creation of the American Political Science Association in 1903. It is important that almost without exception those who might be called the founding fathers of Public
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