PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY – Vol. I - Development of African Administration: Pre-Colonial Times and since - Emizet F. Kisangani DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN ADMINISTRATION: PRECOLONIAL TIMES AND SINCE Emizet F. Kisangani Kansas State University‚ Manhattan‚ Kansas‚ USA Keywords: ancient‚ civilization‚ colonization‚ development‚ administration‚ corruption‚ administrative reform. Contents U SA NE M SC PL O E – C EO H AP LS TE S R S 1. The Pre-colonial Period: From the
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National Recovery Administration The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was established by Congress in June 1933. The goal of the NRA was for representatives of business‚ labor‚ and government to establish codes of fair practices that would set prices‚ production levels‚ minimum wages‚ and maximum hours within each industry. The NRA sought to establish the economy by ending overproduction‚ labor conflicts‚ and deflating prices. Businesses that participated and collaborated with the NRA were
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Transparency in Public Administration in India Siddharth Singh The demand for transparency in the functioning of government agencies is a popular and democratic reaction to the arbitrariness and secrecy that surround the working of most government offices. Traditionally‚ a citizen aggrieved by the decision of a government servant either approaches a senior controlling officer of the civil servant or a public representative to get a redress of his grievance. If the latter shows indifference or fails
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people’s debt started increasing. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president‚ his administration created agencies to try and combat the economic despair. The responses of FDR’s administration to the Great Depression helped try to improve the economy as a whole‚ but were more effective in providing relief for the Americans rather than fixing the overall depression. The philosophy behind Roosevelt’s Administration was taken from John Maynard Keys. In order to recover‚ they believed the US needed
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The Administration for Children and Families By Jasmine Reyes The Administration for Children and Families (AFC) is a federal funding state‚ and organization to provide family assistance such as welfare‚ child support‚ and child welfare. The service is provided by the state and county. The AFC help families try and build a strong‚ healthy‚ and supportive attitude towards life and the development of children. The AFC makes sure children are protected from abuse and neglect and those children
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Public Administration & Ethics In public administration‚ decisions are a lot of times made based upon ethical principles‚ which are the perception of what the general public would agree is correct. This helps keep the administrators ethical because they first must ask themselves if they will be under public scrutiny if they don’t make an ethical decision. Ethics has also placed additional burden on public administrators regarding how they handle their personal lives. When a person enters
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Introduction Issue Identification The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States Department of Justice law enforcement agency. Their purposes in law enforcement is to stop the sale of illegal drugs‚ drug trafficking‚ investigate major crimes within the United States and internationally‚ and to secure and protect our communities from ever confronting drugs. DEA also cooperates with many major law enforcement agencies such as federal‚ state‚ local‚ and foreign law enforcement agencies
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Ethics is not a new topic in public administration‚ and the amount of information on the subject demonstrates the importance of ethics in the field. For instance‚ a recent article examined the impact of New Public Management on ethics and found that the framework for NPM has a definite impact of the ethical decisions of administrators (Maesschalk‚ 2004). Currently‚ ethics seems an especially urgent aspect of public administration. Whether it is a national leader invoking a “war on terror” or a local
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ESSAY 1: ADMINISTRATION OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE It has widely been established by both modern and ancient historians that the administrative basis of the Persian Empire was introduced by Cyrus the Great‚ where it was later revised and stabilised by Darius I around 519BC. According to Herodotus‚ Xerxes had inherited his father Darius’ perfected system of satrapies‚ satraps and economic and communications improvements which enabled Xerxes to continue the running of the Achaemenid empire. Modern historian
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Rights of Medication Administration Health care providers are responsible for ensuring patient safety and quality of care at all times. Nurses play a vital role in provision of patient care. Many of the tasks of nursing carry some degree of risk‚ with medication administration having one of the greatest risk factors. Serious errors may occur in approximately 2 per 1‚000 prescriptions (Lesar et al‚ 1990). The rate of adverse drug events are estimated at approximately 1%‚ with 12% to 30% of them
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