PSCI 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Public Administration, Statutory Law, Executive Functions
30 Dec 2017
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It also draws from many different academic disciplines. It is about doing collectively , what cannot be done individually. For example the federal government does what other governments cannot do such as providing for national defense. State & local governments provide for highway safety, maintenance of infrastructure, and the like. Old and young: public administration is an old discipline. It was practices in the earliest civilizations, such as those of the egyptians, babylonians, chinese, greeks, Romans, and others: public administration is a young discipline: As a scholarly discipline it began with woodrow wilson"s seminal article, the. His famous politics-administration dichotomy lay at the core of this study. The first textbook on public administration was written by leonard white, entitled, Introduction to the study of public administration prentice-hall, 1926. Public administration is an old and young thing: old discipline, practiced in earliest civilizations like egyptians, babylonians, chinese,
