Clemence: I think public administration is a science because it involves the study of government decision making and policies‚ which can help to produce more policies. Science is also defined as the study of something or the pursuit of knowledge on public administration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_administration has more details on public administration. Public administration is not a science or an art. Public administration is known as a "craft" for many reasons. It is not science because there
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FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION I. Understanding Public Administration Meaning of Public Administration From a very broad perspective‚ public administration may be viewed to refer not only to those activities involved in carrying out or in implementing the policies and programs of the government but also the processes and contents of these policies and programs. Meaning of Public Administration From a broader perspective‚ public administration may refer to cooperative human
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE : POL 123 COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION COURSE GUIDE POL 123 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Course Team Dr. Justice Igbokwe (Writer) - NDC Dr. C. Nna-Emeka Okereke (Editor) - NDC Ifeyinwa M. Ogbonna-Nwaogu (Coordinator) - NOUN NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA ii POL 123 COURSE GUIDE National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos Abuja Office
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Public administration is not a science or an art. Public administration is known as a "craft" for many reasons. It is not science because there isn’t an entirely correct way of doing it‚ there are no equations that will constitute efficiency or effectiveness for sure. Science is all about facts‚ a scientific rule is one that works all the time. Although administrators use scientific laws‚ techniques‚ and data‚ they do so in ways that give individual imagination and temperament free rein. There
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Public administration is the implementation of government policy‚ and the academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.[1] As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal... is to advance management and policies so that government can function."[2] Some of the various definitions which have been offered for the term are: "the management of public programs";[3] the "translation of politics into the reality that citizens see
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CHAPTER ONE: DEFINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading Chapter 1 in the textbook‚ the student should be able to: 1. Define public administration within the context of its four frames: a. Political b. Legal c. Managerial d. Occupational 2. Locate public administration within its interdisciplinary context. 3. Define the subject matter that forms the core of public administration. 4. Provide
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2: Theory of Public Administration and Public Policy § "The debate between scientific management and human relations is a continuing one. It may be tempting to regard the theories of Taylor and Mayo as mutually exclusive-at one time one theory is pre-eminent while at other time the other is- but this would be misleading". Discuss; particularly refer whether this is still a viable argument in public administration theory? § In the evolution of public administration as a discipline
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The roll of ethics in public administration is based on the administration; administrators should be value-free when they implement public policy. I will discuss why ethics should be based on the administration and‚ why it should not be based on each individual worker in the administration. I will discuss Weber’s stance on values in bureaucratic organizations‚ what Macintyre suggests‚ and what Hummel and Goodsell would conclude about values in public administration. Most people do not understand
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หัวขอเรื่อง Five Decades of Public Administration in Thailand โดย รศ.ดร.พิทยา บวรวัฒนา วันที่ 9 กรกฎาคม 2548 เวลา 13.15-16.15 น. ณ หอง 1009‚ หอง 913 และหองประชุมศูนยเทคโนโลยี ชั้น 5 ณ อาคารอเนกประสงค สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร 1 Five Decades of Public Administration in Thailand Associate Professor Bidhya Bowornwathana‚ Ph.D.* Paper prepared for presentation at a seminar to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the School of Public Administration‚ NIDA‚ Anekprasong Building
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DEFINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION When people think about government‚ they think of elected officials. The attentive public knows these officials who live in the spotlight but not the public administrators who make governing possible; it generally gives them little thought unless it is to criticize “government bureaucrats.” Yet we are in contact with public administration almost from the moment of birth‚ when registration requirements are met‚ and our earthly remains cannot be disposed of without
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