CHAPTER ONE: DEFINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading Chapter 1 in the textbook‚ the student should be able to: 1. Define public administration within the context of its four frames: a. Political b. Legal c. Managerial d. Occupational 2. Locate public administration within its interdisciplinary context. 3. Define the subject matter that forms the core of public administration. 4. Provide
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE : POL 123 COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION COURSE GUIDE POL 123 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Course Team Dr. Justice Igbokwe (Writer) - NDC Dr. C. Nna-Emeka Okereke (Editor) - NDC Ifeyinwa M. Ogbonna-Nwaogu (Coordinator) - NOUN NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA ii POL 123 COURSE GUIDE National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos Abuja Office
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good product generates its own PR. That‚ in a nutshell‚ is the success of Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement. The movement seemed to have a life of its own. Yet‚ it was a very successful PR exercise at the same time‚ and this is what leading public relations and communications firm Hanmer MSL has examined in this case study‚ the first of the thought leadership studies that Hanmer MSL’s new content service plans to put together on a regular basis. Anna Hazare took up an issue that affects the
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aim at fulfilling and enforcing public policy. o Nigro- ‘the organization and use of men and materials to accomplish a purpose. o Pfiffner- Getting the work of the government done by coordinating the efforts of the people. o Prof. Woodrow Wilson- “ detailed and systematic execution of public law ‚ every particular application of general law” o Luther Gulick- “ concerns primarily with the executive branch where the work of the government is done.” Public Administration o The Government
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As part the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the OECD‚ OECD Internal Audit and the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate‚ in partnership with the Institut Français de l’Audit et du Contrôle Internes (IFACI)‚ the French Chapter of The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA) organised a Seminar on: Internal Control and Internal Audit: Ensuring Public Sector Integrity and Accountability‚ which was held on 13 April 2011 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris. Fostering
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Introduction Public policy‚ in general‚ refers to a broad ranging issue which may deal with a wide variety of substantive areas such as education‚ health‚ housing and others. Harold Dwight Lasswell‚ an American political scientist‚ has made a great contribution to the study of policy-making‚ declaring policy as a process – “a set of phenomena organised in time and led by a number of specific and self-induced mechanisms” (1951). The key emphasis of public policy has been set on the part played by
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the relationship between public debt and economic growth the case of Portugal NAME STUDENT ID DEGREE SUPERVISOR TITLE WORD COUNT DATE CAMPUS. . Investigating the relationship between public debt and economic growth the case of Portugal 11‚499 . ABSTRACT The implications of public obligation on economic growth are very important to be researched as background to economic policies of a country. A country partly based on the comprehension of the relationship between public debt and economic growth
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ( CODE NO. 18) PAPER – I PART - I Administrative Theory 1. Meaning‚ Scope and Significance of Public Administration‚ Public and Private administration‚ Wilson’s vision of Public administrations‚ Evolution of the discipline and its present status. 2. New Public Administration concept of New Public Management‚ Good Governance‚ Concept and application‚ Ethics and Administration. 3. Scientific Management - (Taylor and the Scientific management movement) Classical Theory
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attempts must be made to encourage people to use their cars less and public transport more. Discuss possible ways to encourage the use of public transport. You should write at least 250 words. In a world of increasing environmental awareness improved public transport represents the way of the future. Although people do enjoy the convenience and privacy of traveling in their own private vehicles‚ in my opinion they may choose public transport if it fulfills certain conditions. These conditions fall
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FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION I. Understanding Public Administration Meaning of Public Administration From a very broad perspective‚ public administration may be viewed to refer not only to those activities involved in carrying out or in implementing the policies and programs of the government but also the processes and contents of these policies and programs. Meaning of Public Administration From a broader perspective‚ public administration may refer to cooperative human
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