- Civil Service Reform (1883)
- Woodrow Wilson: The Study of Administration (1887)
- Goodnow: Politics and Administration (1900)
- Frederick Taylor: , Principles of Scientific Management (1916)
-Budget Reform
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What is a definition of public administration?
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PA is an extremely broad discipline --No generally accepted definition
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Public Goods (Non-Excludable good)
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Non-paying consumers cannot be prevented from accessing it
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Non street level bureaucrats
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Civil service workers, public managers in government agencies
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Why have Government? Provide Infrastructure
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Provide infrastructure to conduct business (ex. nitial construction of roads and signage, public transport, utilities, channels of communication)
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Street level bureaucrats
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Police officer, teachers social workers
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How does PA generally differ from business administration?
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-Ambiguity of goals
-Pluralistic decision making
-Visibility of managerial actions
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Who is a public administrator?
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Those who work in various levels of government and help to deliver public goods and services to citizens
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What is the ethical foundation of public administration?
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Democracy, Bureaucracy, Publicness
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Legislative Branch
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-The Congress
-Senate house
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How is democracy different from bureaucracy?
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Democracy values individualism, equality, and pluralistic decision making
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What is the difference between public and private management?
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-Time perspective
-Duration
-Performance measurement
-Equity and efficiency
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Three general tenets of the American democracy are what?
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-Individualism
-Equity
-Liberty
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How is Bureaucracy different from democracy?
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Bureaucracy values the group, the hierarchy, and top-down decision making
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What do public administrators do?
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Deliver public services to citizens
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What is publicness?
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A broader conception of public administration advanced by Barry Bozeman. The degree to which the public is inolved in or has access to public administrations.
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Why have Government? Public Goods
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Provide public goods not supplied by the market, (ex. national defense, criminal and civil justice, emergency service
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Executive Branch
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-President and Vice President
-White House office
-Department of defense, justice, state, agriculture, etc
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What is Public administration?
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(PA) is concerned with the implementation of public policy; it is also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares workers for the public and, increasingly, nonprofit sectors
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Judicial Branch
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-Supreme court of the United States
-USA Court of appeals
-Court of federal claims
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Public Goods (Non-Rivalrous good)
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A type of good that may only be possessed or consumed by many usersat the same time at no additional cost