Public administration is like any other administration which is carried out in public interest. Before we dwell deeper into understanding...
Read moreBureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. Joseph A. Schumpeter The above quote by...
Read moreAt a first glance it seems easier to accept public administration as an art. It is just the administration of...
Read moreThe expansion of public sector into industrial enterprises has been into practice for quite some time, a little over half...
Read moreWoodrow Wilson was the 28th President of USA (1913-1921) and is often addressed as the father of American Public Administration....
Read moreThe term new public management was coined by scholars from UK and Australia (Hood 1991 and Hood and Jackson 1991),...
Read moreWe have come across a number of times during our exploration of the topic, that it is somewhat difficult to...
Read moreThe study of History is often cited as important to understand the present as well as the future. The study...
Read moreThe instructional approach to the study of public administration concerns itself with the institutions and organizations of the State. The...
Read moreThe behavioral approach to public administration owes its genesis to the Human Relations Movement of the 1930s. The movement started...
Read moreThe closed and open model approach to the study of public administration focuses on the organization itself. One way to...
Read moreThe structural functional approach to public administration is a term adapted from sociology and anthropology which interprets society as a...
Read moreWe remember reading about the Wilsonian philosophy of public administration and the famous dichotomy of politics and administration. After Wilson,...
Read moreWe have read about the famous Wilsonian dichotomy of politics and administration and after the Second World War the diminishing...
Read moreKarl Marx has often been cited as the most powerful personality in the history of human civilization. He was a...
Read moreWe have read about the dichotomy between the politics and administration. Subsequently, we also read about how the later authors...
Read moreThe critical role of public administration as defined by John Rohr (a leading scholar of the US Constitution and its...
Read moreThe role and functions of the Government and the bureaucracy is that which keeps constantly evolving in the wake of...
Read moreThe developed countries are identified by certain parameters like highly developed economy, greater technical infrastructure, high GDP and net income...
Read moreThe developing countries of the world are concentrated in the regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The developing nations...
Read moreThere have been several discussions and arguments regarding whether public administration can be categorized as a Science or as an...
Read moreThe Human Relations Theory has human beings at its center as can be understood by the name, but it also...
Read moreThe bureaucratic theory of public administration owes its existence to Max Weber and his magnum opus Economy and Society published...
Read moreIn the previous section we read about the Weberian Model of Bureaucracy and its various aspects, however like all models...
Read moreThe line agency in its traditional form exists as departments. Departments are the fundamental unit of administrative organizations and carries...
Read moreWe are at the next level of understanding departments within the organizations. In the earlier article we understood about the...
Read moreThe public enterprises came into existence as a result of the expanding scope of public administration. The advent of the...
Read moreThe pioneering scholar of the theory of decision making in organizations, was Herbert Simon. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Read moreEmployees form the core and the backbone of any organization and public organizations are no different. According to authors William...
Read moreThe budget in its elementary form had been part of almost all monarchies of the history. There have been written...
Read moreThe public budgets are different from other forms of budgets in many ways; here the voters delegate the power of...
Read moreAudit is an instrument, a tool of financial control, which is employed by the public or private sector or an...
Read moreThe traditional approach towards administration has been limited in its scope and premise, the core of which was strict adherence...
Read moreComparative public administration focuses on Public Administration as a field of study and research rather simple execution of tasks. Haroon...
Read moreFuture belongs to Flexible Public Sector rather than Machine Bureaucracies As the world around us is changing with concomitant changes...
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