POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Rein, Environment And Climate Change Canada, Welfare

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

Document Summary

Pols 2250 public admin & government3/23/2013 8:42:00 pm. Public bureaucracy: system of authority, people, offices and methods that government uses to achieve its objectives . Woodrow wilson (1887: first to articulate the need for a science of administration, essay the study of administration published in public. To discover what governments can properly do. State was much more limited in what it was doing, government was relatively simple at the time the welfare state did not exist: suggested that government business could be made more business like. This quest to introduce market-based principles, make government run more like a business/corporation. Getting harder to run a constitution rather than to frame a constitution. Well functioning administrative systems can all provide valuable lessons, as long as these services are provided efficiently and effectively: administration was considered a singular process, based on the division of governments within the country and/or state. Similarities posdcorb: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, recording,