Introduction to Public Administration

AVISO,MIRAFEL C.

BPA-1B
 POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION DICHOTOMY

POLITICS

 Activities that relate to influencing the actions and

policies of a government or getting and keeping power in
a government.

ADMINISTRATION

 The act or process of administering, or the execution of

public affairs as distinguished from policy-making

DICHOTOMY

 A division of Contrast Between two things that are or are

represented as being opposed or entirely different.

POWER OF GOVERNMENT

 Legislative/legislature
 Executive
 Judicial/Judiciary

WOODROW WILSON BELIEVE THAT

 Administration Executes the law.

 There is a little difference between PA and BA

*Government could ang should be more business

like in its operation.

MIXING POLITICS & ADMINISTRATION IN BOTH INFFECTIVE

AND INEFFICIENT
 Government employees should be selected for their
merit .
 They should be free from pilitical influence and
pressures.