PAP 2300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: North American Free Trade Agreement, John Maynard Keynes, Gabriel Almond
10 Dec 2014
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The ways in which governments conduct themselves through bureaucratic processes. Public administration = how we deal with issues. What the government does, implementing public interest: democratic society. Form of society which favours equal rights. Two types; indirect and direct: elected representatives. Decision makers in a democratic government which are elected by citizens to represent their wishes: politics-administration dichotomy. The notion that there is a distinction between the duties and responsibilities of politicians who make up public policy, and their public servants, who faithfully execute it. The idea that ministers are held responsible for things they generally have no control over: merit principle. A form of organization characterized by hierarchy, a division of labour, a system of hiring and promotion based on merit, and management by detailed but impersonal rules: accountability. Those who hold governmental power must be answerable and accountable for the way in which that power is exercised: public/ private sector. Public: institutions and personnel of the state.
