POLS 3190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Political Question, Private Good, Public Good
26 Nov 2016
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Public admin is about public provision of services and regulations, which makes it important to consider politics. Politics: who gets what, when, and how: also, how state responds to public"s demands/wants. Is both a field of study and a set of administrative practices. Public provision of service and regulation, and the state"s answer to the political question of who gets what, when, and how take place within a structure known generically as a bureaucracy. Politics/administration dichotomy: the mismatch between theories and practices. Services provided and regulations enforced by means of policy instruments. Government has many tools to ensure citizen"s needs and wants are met: voluntary compliance, and tools of coercion, laws, ex. Laws, regulations, crown corporations, expenditures, and taxes are a few examples of different types of policy or governing instruments. 2-the difficulty of subjecting such a good to the exclusionary principle. The environment and expansion of public administration: factors influencing public administration.
