Public Administration

Lecture 1
 Recommended Books
• Public administration by Dr Sultan khan
• Public administration 7th Ed by Denhardt
Robert
• Public Administration and Public Affairs by
Nicholas Henry
 Its Nature and Scope
• Its as old as the human • Rampant: Excessive
history. • Overwhelming:
• Aristotle’s Politics and
Machiavelli's The Prince extraordinary
are major contribution • To nip the evil in the
toward public bud: to kill any evil in
administration. the starting
• The discipline developed
after the separation from • At logger heads with
the Church as an each: in sever defiance
academic discipline. to each other.
• Woodrow Wilson paved • Cul de sac: a close way
the way for Public
administration in United
States
 THE FIRST STAGE
• Wrote “Study of
administration” and he
opined the separation
of politics and
administration.
• Universities in the
America started dealing
public administration as
a separate subject.
• “Intro to the study of
public administration”
was the first text book
written by Dr L. D White.
 THE SECOND STAGE
• In second stage the scientist like W.F
Willooughby’s “principles of public
administration (1927).
• This period focused on finding the principles
of Public administration and many scientists
of this era did this.
• Luther’s Gulick “POSDCORB” planning,
organization, staffing, diresting,
coordination, recruiting and budgeting are
the most important of this era.
 THE THIRD STAGE
• The this school majorly focused on the
social and the psychological effect on the
working of the individuals
• Work of Elston Mayo in 1920s was the
most significant in this scenario.
• Chester bernard’s work was also quite
significant for the psychological and
behavioural factor on the organization.
 THE FOURTH STAGE
• Simon and Robert Dahl denounced the
dichotomy of politics and public
administration.
• They included other disciplines in the
administration their strong contribution
toward public administration
• Robert Dahl opined that the whole
administration revolves around rationality
and decision making.
 THE FIFTH STAGE
• Post war era saw the • Prominent works were of F.W.
elimination of all the RIGGS
• New Public administration came
approaches. out after the conference of
• This time required the Minnowbrook in 1968 in U.S
intermixing and the • Frank Mariani and Dwight Waldo
comparative study of all are the propounders of the New
Public administration.
the other disciplines. • It focuses of the following four
• The separate study of Relevance : should be related with
public and private the contemporary issues and
administration started problems
merging, theories and Values are requirements of Public
administration
practises were also Equity : removal of economic or social
merging and equally disparities.
applicable on both private Change: social change can only be
and public administration. brought by pub administration.
 Meanings of Public administration

• Derived from latin word -ad and ministiare

meaning to serve.
• Pfiffner opined “organization and direction
of humans to get the desired goals”
• H.G Fredrickson opines that its purpose is
to bring social equality.
• Woodrow Wilson, "It is the systematic and
detailed application of law.”
 Vocab: Chaos: disorder; anarchy:
lawlessness
• “It is the fulfilment and the application of the
public policy” M.E Demock
• “The art and science of management when
applied to the state “ Dwight Waldo.
• Public administration deals with the policy
making by the judicial, executive and
legislative branches of government, its
application for the attainment of public
welfare, which is its ultimate goal.
 The scope of public administration
• Divided into two categories
• The Managerial View: Public administration
involves the activities of a manager
• Prof. Willioughby, P. Maqueen and L. Urwick
are its supporters
• Pub ad deals with three M’s- Men, Material
and Method.
• Gulicks “POSDCORB” deals with the
managerial tasks.
Vocab: Essence: crux, core, nucleous
• The subject matter View: deals with the other
activities like education, defence, law and
order, public health and justice.
• Lewis Marian says ,” public administration is
an instrument with two blades like a pair of
scissors . One blade is knowledge of the
fields covered by POSDCORB , the other
blade is the knowledge of subject matter in
which these techniques are applied . Both
blades must be good to make an effective
tool.’’