what is public administration?
Using NCU library resources, find at least five scholarly journal articles that include at least three of the following key terms* related to public administration, published in the last five years:
Public Administration: The management and administration of public programs.
Administration: 1) The management and direction of the affairs of governments and institutions. 2) A collective term for all policy-making officials of a government. 3) The execution and implementation of public policy. 4) The time in office of a chief executive such as a president, governor, or mayor. 5) The supervision of the estate of a dead person to pay taxes and assign assets to heirs.
Administrative Discretion: The ability of individual administrators in a bureaucracy to make significant choices affecting management and operation of programs for which they are responsible; particularly evident in separation-of-powers systems.
Public Management: A field of practice and study central to public administration, emphasizing internal operations of public agencies, focuses on managerial concerns related to control and direction, such as planning, organizational maintenance, information systems, personnel management, and performance evaluation.
Scientific Management: A formal theory of organization developed by Frederick Taylor in the early 1900s; concerned with achieving efficiency in production, rational work procedures, maximum productivity, and profit; focused on management’s responsibilities and on “scientifically” developed work procedures, based on “time and motion” studies.
Participatory Democracy: A political and philosophical belief in direct involvement by affected citizens in the processes of governmental decision-making.
Policy Implementation: A general political and governmental process of carrying out programs in order to fulfill specified policy objectives; a responsibility chiefly of administrative agencies, under chief executive and/or legislative guidance; also, the activities directed toward putting a policy into effect.
Politics/Administration Dichotomy: The belief, growing out of the early administrative reform movement and its reaction against the spoils system, which held that political interference in administration would erode the opportunity for administrative efficiency, that the policy making activities of government ought to be wholly separated from the administrative functions, and that administrators had to have an explicit assignment of objectives before they could begin to develop an efficient administrative system.
Scan the articles and note the differences and/or similarities between the required readings for the week and the articles youve found in the library. Using all the sources, write a 5-page, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font paper to answer the following question: What is public administration?
