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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Concept Paper: Public Interest To claim to hold the public interest is to claim something big. The ambiguity that arises from such a broad concept almost always means that it will have great‚ and sometimes detrimental‚ consequences. Because it is a sort of a “je ne sais quoi” (Sorauf – p. 623) of American politics‚ it is a strong but malleable tool that can be used by anyone who has the audacity to give it a meaning. Frank J. Sorauf‚ while conceding that no “neat and precise”(p
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procedures‚ there will be chaos and everyone will do as they please. I will be critically analysing the policy making process in my assignment. Key actors in the policy making process Individuals and institutions involved in implementing public policies: 1. Public Officials: Successful policies depend on the insight of officials and legislation. When officials are making decisions concerning the policy he/she should do it as if they are personally implementing it. For example: Hanekom (1987‚ p.56)
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN MALAYSIA In many developing countries‚ the ability of its public service would determine how fast the development can take place. The public service is very important in development in any country. Hence‚ the effectiveness and efficiency of the public administrators and their organizations are fundamental requisites for a continuous and productive achievement of the development goals within a nation. Administrative Development sometimes known as Administrative
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Paper Public Policy M. Phil Semester One Q.1. Define the following terms. 1. Problem: A Sudden happening or a thing that is difficult to deal with or to understand. 2. Public Policy: Public Policy is the action taken by government to address a particular public issue. It is implemented by local‚ state and federal government. 3. Goal: The achieved point of any action is call goal or you can say the ending point. 4. Output: The formal action that government takes to pursue its goal is call
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What are the Objectives of Public Enterprises? SOUMYA SINGH In India‚ public enterprises have been assigned the task of realising the objectives laid down in the Directive Principles of State Policy. Public sector as a whole seeks: (a) to gain control of the commanding heights of the economy‚ (b) to promote critical development in terms of social gain or strategic value rather than on consideration of profit‚ and (c) to provide commercial surplus with which to finance further economic development
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40 JOURNAL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATORS‚ 10(1)‚ SUMMER 2010 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Public Transportation Ridership Levels Christopher R. Swimmer and Christopher C. Klein 1 Abstract This article uses linear regression analysis to examine the determinants of public transportation ridership in over 100 U. S. cities in 2007. The primary determinant of ridership appears to be availability of public transportation service. In fact‚ the relationship is nearly one to one: a 1% increase in availability is
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ANALYSIS 4.1 Introduction 4.2 AD-AS in a closed economy Questions and exercises 4.3 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply in an open economy Questions and exercises Case 4.1 61 CHAPTER 5: THEORY OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE 5.1 Long-term and medium-term fluctuations 5.2 The long term: Schumpeter’s theory on cyclical growth Questions and exercises 5.3 The medium-term business cycle: the Multiplier-Accelerator model Questions and exercises 5.4 Capital and the business cycle 5.5 Investments Questions
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DEFINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION When people think about government‚ they think of elected officials. The attentive public knows these officials who live in the spotlight but not the public administrators who make governing possible; it generally gives them little thought unless it is to criticize “government bureaucrats.” Yet we are in contact with public administration almost from the moment of birth‚ when registration requirements are met‚ and our earthly remains cannot be disposed of without
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Public health From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Newspaper headlines from around the world about polio vaccine tests (13 April 1955). Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society‚ organizations‚ public and private‚ communities and individuals" (1920‚ C.E.A. Winslow).[1] It is concerned with threats to health based on population health analysis. The
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