POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Technological Change, Aggregate Demand, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

Two distinct but related terms: public administration a field of practice (occupation); a field of, public bureaucracy system of authority, people, offices and methods that the government uses to achieve its objectives. The main focus of the study of public study (discipline) Role of public administration is to look at/examine/modify public bureaucracy. Woodrow wilson (1887) for two reasons: president of the united states: former professor of political science before he became the 28th, brought forth the idea that public administration should be a field of. To discover what governments can properly do. Still relevant nearly 130 years later! utmost efficiency and least probable cost. People believe we can adopt private-sector business techniques into the government. Reporting, budgeting: posdcorb planning, organizing, staffing, directing, co-ordinating, Public interest the common good or welfare of the general. Much of what the government does doesn"t make sense with: 1. Public goods/interest (government) vs. profit/bottom line: 2.