PAD-3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: United States Agency For International Development, Public Administration, Government Spending
13 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1 reading notes- public administration: an introduction. Government spending: federal spending 65% of government spending, gdp: add together total amount of money spent, government spending is approximately 32% of us gdp. Taxes: sales tax, income tax, and excise tax, employment taxes directed toward social programs. Employment: federal government employs about 5. 3 million people but number dropping, state and local government employment increasing, levels out to 17% employment of us workforce. What do we get for all these resources: government helps ensures health, safety and well being, from traffic laws to sewer maintenance, governmental regulations. How government serves others: supports non-profits. Non-profits cannot be privately owned: promotion of resources, globalization. Public services provided by public servants: bureaucracy by civil servants with no face or name, people that don"t come up with ideas but see them through. Bureaucracy: functional or not: parts of a bureacracy. Untrue assumption that public workers have easy jobs.
