PA Managerial Definition - ️️-the executive function of government
-management specialty
-Mickey Mouse
-art, science, craft?
Woodrow Wilson - ️️-believed the study of PA could enable officials to increase governmental efficiency
-centralization of power through decentralized govern...
POL 206 Midterm
PA Managerial Definition - ✔️✔️-the executive function of government
-management specialty
-Mickey Mouse
-art, science, craft?
Woodrow Wilson - ✔️✔️-believed the study of PA could enable officials to increase
governmental efficiency
-centralization of power through decentralized government functions
-argued that political science should concentrate on the more generally neglected
details of how governments are administered
-"necessary because it is getting harder to run a constitution than to frame one"
Areas of PA Definition - ✔️✔️1. political
2. legal
3. managerial
4. occupational
Goals of Public Administration - ✔️✔️1. pursuing the public good
2. enhancing civil society
3. ensuring a well-run, fair and effective public service
PA Political Definition - ✔️✔️-Is what government does
-Both direct and indirect
-Phase in the public policymaking cycle
-Implementing public interest
-Doing collectively what can not be done so well individually
Public Administration - ✔️✔️-broadly refers to the development, implementation and
study of branches of government policy
-the government in action
-the management of public affairs or the implementation of public policies
-whatever gov. does for good or ill
-it is PA's political context that makes it public
-that distinguishes it from private or business administration
Direct - ✔️✔️-when government employees provide services to the public
-ex: mail delivery, electricity
, Indirect - ✔️✔️-when government pays private contractors to provide public goods or
services to citizens
-ex: security officers who are not part of the armed forces but are employed by private
contractors to help protect workers in the oil fields in Iraq
PA Legal Definition - ✔️✔️-law in action
-regulation
-king's Largesse
-theft
PA Occupational Definition - ✔️✔️-occupational category
-essay contest
-idealism in action
-academic field
-a profession
2.8 million employees - ✔️✔️-Federal employment
-15.1 billion dollar payroll
3.8 million employees - ✔️✔️-State employment
-19.4 billion dollar payroll
11.1 million employees - ✔️✔️-Local employment
-50 billion dollar payroll
Regulation - ✔️✔️-the totality of government controls the social and economic activities
of its citizens
-the rule making process of those administrative agencies charged with the official
interpretation of law
Pros of two party system - ✔️✔️-give the people more say over presidential elections
-two parties create division of issues which helps clarify and classify issues based on
separate and different idealogies
Cons of two party system - ✔️✔️-creates division in gov.
-leaves issues too cute and dry with no room in the middle
-limits the choice of voters, no middle man
-promotes two party system making which makes it hard to enact change in gov. system
-limits what people think can be changed
Constitution - ✔️✔️-preamble
-bill of rights
-amendments
-articles
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