PPAS 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Public Administration, New Public Management, Chinese Whispers

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 2110
• Professor: Peter Constantinou

Document Summary

Government is full of people trying to do things on competing ideas to improve society. Ideology of the west = focus on the individual, and that anyone can succeed if they work hard, and society should focus on the individual. The state should be part of society"s problems. Means or devices governments have at their disposal for implementing policies and any among which they must select in formulating policy. Private behavior all about self-regulations, awareness (eg: ads on tobacco packages) Pictures, images, ideas, competing visions, parties, individual. ^ civil service is all written down (eg, policies, memos) ^ politicians are about spoken words (images, pictures, ideas) Field of study (academic discipline) and field of practice (occupation or career choice) Interdisciplinary field which borrows from: law, politics, sociology, communications, economics, psychology basically can understand each field, and not specifically an expert of one field.