Public Administration

As you begin this course and your Master’s degree program in public administration, it is important for you to understand the concept of public administration and recognize its relationship to public policy. Public administration has a variety of definitions encompassing occupational, managerial, political, and legal perspectives, among others. Essentially, public administration is the work performed by all levels of government. This work broadly includes the management of public services and the creation and implementation of public policy. Recognizing the connection between public administration and public policy is important to your understanding of the concept and context of public administration, as well as of what results from its policies and actions.

For this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources and media. Consider the political, legal, managerial and occupational perspectives of public administration discussed in Chapter 1 of your text. Then, Review the case study entitled “How a President Undeservedly Received Credit for Founding a Discipline” in Chapter 1 of yourcourse text, Introducing Public Administration. Think about how this case study illustrates these varying perspectives of public administration and the relationship between public administration, public policy and politics.

Support your postings with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. Use correct APA formatting for all resources.

Resources

• Shafritz, J. M., Russell, E. W., Borick, C. P., & Wyde, A. C. (2017). Introducing public administration (9th. ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Chapter 1, “Defining Public Administration”
  • Chapter 2, “The Political and Cultural Environment of Public Policy and Its Administration”
• Rosenbloom, D. (2008). The politics–administration dichotomy in U.S. historical context. Public Administration Review, 68(1), 57–60.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Stivers, C. (2008). The significance of the administrative state. Public Administration Review, 68(1), 53–56.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.