Meaning of Public AdministrationPublic Administration carries two major dimensions:
---As an activity.
---As an area of study.
Practice – activity by government
Government in Action
Actional part of governance
As an area of study – as a systematic area of study believes in govt. in action and many more than that.
Epistemology of public Administration.
Public – specific meaning for public Administration
Dwight Waldo: It means State or government
Administration: Origin from two latin terms in combination has given rise to. Administration.
Ad + Ministrare: to take care, to save or to look after
E.N. Gladden: “Term Administration appears to be long and pompous but it carries a very humble meaning”.
Public – specific meaning for public Administration
Dwight Waldo: It means State or government
Administration: Origin from two latin terms in combination has given rise to. Administration.
Ad + Ministrare: to take care, to save or to look after
E.N. Gladden: “Term Administration appears to be long and pompous but it carries a very humble meaning”.
Other Definitions of Public administration
Ø L D White observes, “Public Administration consist of all those operations
having for their purpose the fulfilment or enforcement of public policy”.
Ø Pliffner defines It would seem that “Public Administration consists of getting the
work of government done by co-ordinating the efforts of the people so that
they can work together to accomplish their set tasks”.
Ø Prof: Woodrow Wilson defined Public Administration as detailed and systematic
execution of public law; every particular application of general law is an act of
administration.
Ø Luther Gullick ‘Public Administration is that part of the science of
administration which has to do with Government and thus concerns itself
primarily with the executive branch where the work of the government is done.
