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1.1 Reading 1
1.1 Introduction
Discussion
Questions
1.1 Introduction
1.The field of public administration
(PA): key themes emerge in PA
Technical field
Budget
Employment
Evaluation
Performance measurement
Project management
Policy
Resource management
Governance
1.1 Introduction
2. Definition
- What are common fields emerge from
different definition? (e.g. production of
goods and services).
- What is are common themes defining public
administration?
Dominant
truth
Events
Time
Reflec
Unearthed t
truth
Recognized
truth
Unrecognized
truth
Buried truth
Practical
science
Philosophical
theories
Concepts
No
practical
science
Practical
application
Administrative Wheel
Constituti
on
Politic
s
Administrati
on
Rules of Law
Policy
Liberty/Enli
ghtenment
Regulation
s
Power/Knowledge
Sovereign
Administrati
on
Power/kno
wledge
Trust
Authority
Conclusion:
Wilsons essay intends to develop his arguments on
the evolution of PA from 1887 to late nineteenth
century and to sketch the academic study of PA in
America.
POSDCORB Orthodoxy
(1926-1946)
1.
The Reassertion of
Democratic Idealism (19681988)
Clashing moral absolute
Conclusion: PA as the
eminently practical science
What will the future hold for American
Administration Science? If the past is any guide to
the present and to the future- U.S PA unlike PA
elsewhere, will remain dominated by its own unique
brand of inductive, experimental, reformist
mindsets, closely interconnected to the practicalities
of coping with the immediate needs of democratic
governance.