POLS 2250 Lecture 14: Public admin and governance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

Citations: in text, ideas and arguments (name, year), word ofr word is quotation marks. New public management: no competition like private sectors, determining what gets paid for and what does(cid:374)"t. Oil shocks: govs cut back due to public debt, annual shortfalls, deficits. Providing costly services to everyone because of equality. Public vs private sectors, is private really better. Is a field of study or occupation: public admins or bureaucrats working for feds and prov govs: a field of study or discipline. Public bureaucracy: system of authority, people, offices and methods that govs use to achieve its objectives. Woodrow wilson: 1887 wrote first need ti articulate the need for a science of admin, discovered what govs can properly do, and determine how they can do these prper things with the utmost efficiency and least possible cost. Lef wingers would see to helping people rather than economic values.