Articles on Public Administration

What is Public Administration? – Meaning and its Definition

Public administration is like any other administration which is carried out in public interest. Before we dwell deeper into understanding...

Nature and Scope of Public Administration

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. Joseph A. Schumpeter The above quote by...

Public Administration: An Art or a Science

At a first glance it seems easier to accept public administration as an art. It is just the administration of...

Public and Private Administration

The expansion of public sector into industrial enterprises has been into practice for quite some time, a little over half...

Woodrow Wilsons Vision on Public Administration

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of USA (1913-1921) and is often addressed as the father of American Public Administration....

New Public Management Model

The term new public management was coined by scholars from UK and Australia (Hood 1991 and Hood and Jackson 1991),...

Approaches to Public Administration

We have come across a number of times during our exploration of the topic, that it is somewhat difficult to...

Historical and Legal Approach to the Study of Public Administration

The study of History is often cited as important to understand the present as well as the future. The study...

Institutional Approach to Public Administration

The instructional approach to the study of public administration concerns itself with the institutions and organizations of the State. The...

Behavioral Systems Approach to Public Administration

The behavioral approach to public administration owes its genesis to the Human Relations Movement of the 1930s. The movement started...

The Closed and Open Models of Public Administration

The closed and open model approach to the study of public administration focuses on the organization itself. One way to...

Structural Functional Approach to Public Administration

The structural functional approach to public administration is a term adapted from sociology and anthropology which interprets society as a...

Public Policy Approach to Public Administration

We remember reading about the Wilsonian philosophy of public administration and the famous dichotomy of politics and administration. After Wilson,...

Political Economy Approach to Public Administration

We have read about the famous Wilsonian dichotomy of politics and administration and after the Second World War the diminishing...

Marxian Traditions and their Approach to Public Administration

Karl Marx has often been cited as the most powerful personality in the history of human civilization. He was a...

Political Science and Public Administration

We have read about the dichotomy between the politics and administration. Subsequently, we also read about how the later authors...

Role of Public Administration in the Modern State

The critical role of public administration as defined by John Rohr (a leading scholar of the US Constitution and its...

Democratic and Socialist Goals of Public Administration

The role and functions of the Government and the bureaucracy is that which keeps constantly evolving in the wake of...

Public Administration – Challenges in a Developed Society

The developed countries are identified by certain parameters like highly developed economy, greater technical infrastructure, high GDP and net income...

Importance and Challenges in a Developing Society

The developing countries of the world are concentrated in the regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The developing nations...

Classical Theory of Public Administration

There have been several discussions and arguments regarding whether public administration can be categorized as a Science or as an...

Human Relations Theory of Public Administration

The Human Relations Theory has human beings at its center as can be understood by the name, but it also...

Bureaucratic Theory of Public Administration

The bureaucratic theory of public administration owes its existence to Max Weber and his magnum opus Economy and Society published...

Post Weberian Models of Public Administration

In the previous section we read about the Weberian Model of Bureaucracy and its various aspects, however like all models...

Departments as Fundamental Units of Administrative Organizations

The line agency in its traditional form exists as departments. Departments are the fundamental unit of administrative organizations and carries...

Bureau and Boards/Commissions Systems in Departments

We are at the next level of understanding departments within the organizations. In the earlier article we understood about the...

What are Public Enterprises? – Origin and Importance

The public enterprises came into existence as a result of the expanding scope of public administration. The advent of the...

Administrative Decision Making – Mary Parker Follett and Herbert Simon

The pioneering scholar of the theory of decision making in organizations, was Herbert Simon. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

What is Personnel Administration ?

Employees form the core and the backbone of any organization and public organizations are no different. According to authors William...

Significance and Concept of Budget in Public Administration

The budget in its elementary form had been part of almost all monarchies of the history. There have been written...

Types of Budgets in Public Administration

The public budgets are different from other forms of budgets in many ways; here the voters delegate the power of...

Importance of Audit in Public Sector Organizations

Audit is an instrument, a tool of financial control, which is employed by the public or private sector or an...

What is Development Administration ?

The traditional approach towards administration has been limited in its scope and premise, the core of which was strict adherence...

Comparative Public Administration

Comparative public administration focuses on Public Administration as a field of study and research rather simple execution of tasks. Haroon...

The Future of Public Administration

Future belongs to Flexible Public Sector rather than Machine Bureaucracies As the world around us is changing with concomitant changes...

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