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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PART 2 - Coggle Diagram
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PART 2
PA & SOCIETY
It positioned PA as something ‘in between’ the authority that make decisions (state) and the people that are to be administered (society) (Rutgers, 2010)
Promotes an understanding on the relationship between the government and the society it governs.
PA accompanying the society from
‘birth to death’
POLITIC AND & ADMINISTRATION DICHOTOMY
A concept initiated by Woodrow Wilson through his seminal article " The study of Administration’ in 1887 distinctively separate politics and administration.
Wilson was concerned on the corrupting & politicizing interference of political parties in administrative affairs
Wilson (1966) explained the division as such;
Dichotomy between Politics and Administration: Should Politics interfere in an Administration?
Originated from the work of Woodrow Wilson (1887) in his work, “Study of Administration”
See debate between managerial approach (traditional) versus political approach to public administration
Dichotomy refers to total separation
of politics from administrative affair
‘the broad plans of the governmental action is not administrative but the detailed execution is’
POLITIC AND ADMINISTRATION
Goodnow (1900) explained that ‘politics
has to do with policies and the expression
of the state will’ while administration ‘ has to do with the execution of the policies’.
L.D White (1926) stated that politics should not intrude administration where the mission of administration is on economy and efficiency.
To distinguish between administrative and political (legal) actions and between administrative and political functions (Rutgers, 2010)
Administration entails huge discretion that bring together technical expertise and administrative efficiency (Frederickson, 2012).
It was assumed that the line between policy/politics and administration was a ‘firewall’ (Frederickson et al, 2012).
POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
When the government addresses a problem, it will legislate a law, create regulations and made decisions on action to be taken.
The administration deals with what is to be done, how, when and where it should be done.
Administration is the process where policy and decision is implemented.