PADP 6910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collaborative Partnerships, Freedom Of Information Laws By Country

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Public Administration and Policy
• Course: PADP 6910
• Professor: George Krause

Document Summary

Lecture 3 : role of public administration: bureaucracy vs public administration, bureaucracy > the organization & structure of complex organizations, administration > the process of translating policies into outcomes. Public administration > the administration of government affairs (translating public policies into outcomes) Mediating con ict is central to management about administrative operations. Balancing the tension between goals & constraints. Public authority > rule of law is constraint; constrained by what they can implement: actions must be traceable to a legal front of authority. The processes of public administration: career service > distinction between political appointees & civil servants, indirect performance measures > dif culty linking inputs to outputs in the production process, competing goals > ef ciency vs. equity. Ef ciency : a measure of the level of inputs required to produce a given level of outputs. !2: oversight > multiple principals/overseers (president, legislature, courts, higher- level administrators) Policy execution in public administration: authorizing authority : delegation of policymaking.