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    What Is Public Administration?: Administrator As Implementer

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    Public administration involves carrying out laws and rules adopted by legislatures, executives, and courts through managerial and legal processes. It provides both regulatory and service functions to fulfill legislative, executive, and judicial mandates. Some key components of public administration include the relationship between the public and elected officials, regulation, services provided to citizens, and jurisdiction over a particular place. Public administrators must balance tensions between efficiency and effectiveness, and responsiveness and accountability.

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    Public administration involves carrying out laws and rules adopted by legislatures, executives, and courts through managerial and legal processes. It provides both regulatory and service functions to fulfill legislative, executive, and judicial mandates. Some key components of public administration include the relationship between the public and elected officials, regulation, services provided to citizens, and jurisdiction over a particular place. Public administrators must balance tensions between efficiency and effectiveness, and responsiveness and accountability.

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    Public administration involves carrying out laws and rules adopted by legislatures, executives, and courts through managerial and legal processes. It provides both regulatory and service functions to fulfill legislative, executive, and judicial mandates. Some key components of public administration include the relationship between the public and elected officials, regulation, services provided to citizens, and jurisdiction over a particular place. Public administrators must balance tensions between efficiency and effectiveness, and responsiveness and accountability.

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    What is public

    administration?
    Administrator as implementer:

    PA may be defined as all processes,


    organizations and individuals associated with
    carrying out laws and other rules adopted or
    issued by legislatures, executives and courts.

    Administrator as regulator/ service provider:

    Public administration is the use of managerial,


    public, and legal theories and processes to fulfill
    legislative, executive, and judicial mandates for
    the provision of governmental regulatory and
    service functions.

    The approaches
    Traditional
    approach

    NPM

    Political

    Legal

    Value

    Efficiency;
    effectiveness

    Customer
    response

    Representation, Procedural
    accountability
    validity

    Org.
    structure

    Typical
    bureaucracy

    Competitive

    Pluralism

    Adversary

    Individual

    Impersonal;
    rational

    Customer

    Group member

    Particularistic
    individual

    Decision
    making

    Rational

    Decentralized

    Muddling
    through

    Precedence

    Function

    Executive

    Executive

    Legislative

    Judicial

    Budget

    Rational (cost
    benefit)

    Performance
    based

    Incremental

    Rights based

    Key components of PA

    The Public/ Electoral relationship

    Regulation

    Policy/ Civil rule enforcement

    Services

    Constitutional rights
    Public Interest
    Sovereignty

    Collective services (defense, welfare)

    Jurisdiction

    Place bound

    Tensions faced by public


    administrators
    Efficiency v. Effectiveness

    Responsiveness v. Accountability

    reaching public goals or measuring activities?


    responding to public needs or filling out reports?

    Difference between outputs and


    outcomes

    PA or MBA?
    Public

    Private

    NPO

    Value

    Service

    Profit

    Responsive to

    Polity

    Shareholder Calling/
    funder

    Basis

    Monopoly

    Competitive Voluntary

    Services

    Collective

    Excludable

    Selective

    Sustainability

    No exit;
    voice

    Exit

    Exit

    Philanthropy

    Crossovers

    Autonomous organizations
    Government chartered private organizations
    Public Private partnerships
    Third party contracting
    Comparative advantage, Cooperation,
    cooptation, or competition?

    Three branches of
    Government
    Executive: merit based (professional?)

    Legislative: elected
    Judicial: appointed
    Interrelationships?

    Origins and Growth of PA

    Political Roots

    Legal Roots

    Public interest protections (FDA, OSHA, EEOC)

    Managerial roots

    Constitution; Defense; Welfare


    Clientele departments (DOA, DOL, VA, DOC)

    Overhead agencies (OMB; GSA; OPM; GAO)

    PA and Interest groups

    The Executive

    National Executive Branch Structures

    Executive Office of the President

    Cabinet-level Departments

    Independent Regulatory Boards & Agencies

    Government Corporations

    Native American Tribes

    Non Profit Organizations & Associations

    State and Local Government Structures

    Cities

    Counties and Townships

    Special Districts

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