Evolution of Public Administration DOC

Title	Evolution of Public Administration
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Question: Outline the Evolution of Public Administration and discuss the argument that Public Administration is both a science and an art? Introduction The word ‘public’ is used in a variety of ways. In this paper however, it means “Governmental.” Public administration simply means governmental admi...

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Introduction The word 'public' is used in a variety of ways. In this paper however, it means "Governmental." Public administration simply means governmental administration that operates in a political setting. Its focus is specifically on public establishments. The study and practice of public establishment is called public administration. It encompasses the management of public agencies that carry out public policies in order to fulfill state purposes in the public interest. Since government provides services for the people in the public interest, the administration of governmental affairs is known as public administration. Public administration can also be seen as the activities of groups cooperating to accomplish the common goals of government. By safeguarding such frontiers as maintenance of law and order, communications, public health, education, etc. In managing public affairs, public administration focuses principally on the planning, organising, directing, coordinating and controlling of governmental operations. The Evolution of Public Administration The art of administration connotes the direction, co-ordination and control of man, material and resources to achieve some purposes or objectives. An administrator is one who exercises that art. There are administrators in all human activities. Public Administration is that type of administration that is carried out in any affair that concerns the government. It has a universal application irrespective of the system of government practiced by the country. It is the type of administration that is practiced in all levels of government be it in the central, intermediate or local levels. It was born in 1887 as a discipline, not as an activity because as an activity as mentioned in my introduction, public administration is as old as human existence itself. As a discipline it studies and analyses the machinery and procedure of government while formulating and implementing policies and that analysis/study gives birth to new ideas, which are then applied to the activity of government to test the practicality as to whether it increases efficiency. Therefore they both are interdependent. Question: Outline the Evolution of Public Administration and discuss the argument that Public Administration is both a science and an art?...