POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Unfair Competition, United Kingdom Cabinet Committee, Standard Accounting Practice
4 Feb 2013
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Public administration: a field of practice (occupation, field of study (discipline) Public bureaucracy system of authority, people, offices, and methods that government uses to achieve its objectives . Woodrow wilson (1887) firs to articulate the need for a science of administration. Administrative study required for 2 reasons: discover what governments can properly do. Appropriate role of the state: determine how they can do these proper things with the utmost efficiency and least possible cost. Although it was written over a hundred years ago, it is still followed today. Reasoning for the lack of attention to public administration: at the time political thinkers were paying more attention to, nature of the state, constitution, government business could become more business like. Was claiming we should incorporate business more into political science and public administration: harder to run a constitution, than have one . Similarities posdcorb: plan, organization, staffing, direct activities, coordinate, produce reports, budget. Public goods/interest vs. profit/ bottom line: 2.
