Concept information
Preferred term
public administration
Definition
- The term public administration encompasses a vast range of issues and activities. One way of grasping this diversity is to distinguish between two sets of questions: How public authorities are organized and how they seek to act within societies through making and implementing public policy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Public Administration]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- administration theory
- administrative autonomy
- administrative corruption
- administrative law
- advocacy networks
- Attorney Generals
- auditing
- audit society
- budgeting
- bureaucratic authoritarianism
- bureaucratic effectiveness
- cabinet formation
- central banks
- chancellors
- citizen-centric government
- civil service
- cohabitation
- Conseil d'État
- councils of governments
- dual executive
- e-government
- executive immunity
- executive orders
- good governance
- governance, administration policies
- governance networks
- government contracts
- governor
- indigenous governance
- informal governance
- inspectors general
- intelligence
- knowledge management
- multilevel governance
- National Archives
- neighborhood associations
- ombudsman
- open government
- pay for performance
- performance
- performance management
- planning (general)
- police powers
- policy networks
- politicization of bureaucracy
- politicization of civil service
- politics-administration dichotomy
- pooled sovereignty
- Prime Ministers
- public budgeting
- public domain
- public employment
- public enterprises
- public good
- public office rewards
- public policy
- public sector
- public utilities
- quasi non-governmental organizations
- rational choice models of bureaucracy
- rational models of budgeting
- regulation and rulemaking
- regulations
- regulatory enforcement
- regulatory state
- representative bureaucracy
- responsiveness of bureaucracy
- rulemaking
- secret services
- security apparatus
- self-government
- semi-presidential system
- shadow cabinet
- special district
- street-level bureaucracy
- street-level bureaucrat
- urban governance
- virtual agency
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/public_administration
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