POL 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Flint Water Crisis
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When do we hear about government? federal, etc. ,levels), failed integration. Hurricane katrina--->government broke down, no cooperation (state, The aids crisis---> slow response to this epidemic. Infrastructure--->pushed to the side and now it"s a large problem. A single definition of the term public administration will not suffice because. It also draws from many different academic disciplines. It includes a variety of different agencies. Is about doing collectively what cannot be done individually. Is law in action in the form of statutes, regulations, ordinances, Is the king"s largesse. ----> what is being spent. Is theft (king"s largesse, taking and redistributing money---> taking codes, etc. from one group and giving it to another) Public administrators translate public policies into action management, law, social welfare, engineering, ethics, etc. Public administration is a cross-government field- in a globalized environment (international, federal, state & local, non-profit & ngo"s)