PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: David Easton, Microsoft Onenote

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 1301
• Professor: Christopher Cooper

Document Summary

Public administration authority: managerial practices and institutional values by which officials will enact the will of sovereign, execution of the sovereign will, carrying out the wishes of the government, empirical field, arose due to dissatisfaction of spoils-system. Legitimacy: about power, the power to authorize, influence, or coerce, allocation of values: sex ed curriculum, values: Exemplified in public policy: policy can also influence values, like nationalism, monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory, the acceptance of an actor"s right to rule. No coercion: webbers (cid:402) types of legitimacy. Rational-legal: rules and legal statutes: a legal process (cid:336)election(cid:337) If the rules and legal process are not followed, there is no legitimacy: systems theory. Input: voting, the public"s wishes and demands, wants and needs. Output: the policies developed from the input. Thoroughput legitimacy: the process itself of developing the output.