POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Individualism, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Technological Change
28 Dec 2015
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Public administration: field of practice (occupation) and field of study. Public bureaucracy: system of authority, people, offices, and methods. Called for a science of administration in famous essay. Determine how they can do these proper things with the utmost efficiency iii. Argued that the state was growing in size and complexity and it was time for a science of administration. Argued that it was becoming harder to create and frame a constitution. Private sector organizations legally must make profits and return addition value to their shareholders. "crown organisation" to receive more autonomy and efficiency to combat this. Citizens in remote areas can receive mail even if this does not make sense economically for the post office though) Elections (can still take months to years for the newly elected government"s priorities to make their way into the all the ranks of public service) Duration (length of service of the top service appointments [ex.
