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    The Nature and Meaning

    of Public Administration
    Dr. Perla E. Legaspi
    The Nature of Public Administration
     Concerned with the conduct of public
    affairs
     Management of the public’s business
     Includes anything that can be
    construed as the community’s
    response to social problems which
    require collective not individual
    resolution through some form of
    public intervention
    Nature of Public Administration
     Its practice is an art; its study is a
    science
     Distinguishes between theory and
    practice, between study and
    application
     Borrows from and lends to other
    disciplines, some of which overlap in
    subject matter
    Meaning of Public Administration
     How people organize themselves as a
    public, as a collectivity in which they
    recognize mutual obligations and duties,
    to handle their common problems and
    achieve common goals constitutes the
    subject matter of public administration
     Public administration should not be
    considered administration of the public but
    administration for the public
    The Peculiarities of Public
    Administration
     It is unavoidable
     It expects obedience

     It has priority

     It has exceptional size

     Its top management is political

     Its performance is extraordinarily difficult


    to measure
     More is expected of public administration
    Approaches to Identify the
    Discipline
     Identification of governmental administration
     Identification of public organizations grounded in
    public law, financed by public money, and staffed
    by career public servants
     Study of publicly oriented administrative
    attitudes
     Unique features of the processes employed in
    activating public policy
     Publicness – it seeks a meaning separate from
    the advocacy of the public interest, absence of
    profit motive, and acceptance of public
    accountability and political control
    The Identity Crisis
     Martin Landau – would center public
    administration on decision-making following
    Herbert Simon and Dwight Waldo (one type of
    rational human cooperation calculated to realize
    given goals or public goals)
     Vincent Ostrom – suggests that the theory of
    bureaucracy should be replaced as the central
    concept with the theory of public goods
     George Frederickson – public administration is an
    interdisciplinary field, drawing on any relevant
    discipline needed to prepare students for public
    service or to understand public problems or to
    improve governmental administration and public
    sector performance
    Continuation
     Both sides agree that they focus on
    the public domain, the public arena,
    communal goals, collective purposes
    and social objectives and both agree
    that such things deserve
    independent study and thought

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