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10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

Public administration has a rich history that dates back to the Greeks. Public administration is putting laws in action to better serve a civilization and the public. Here’s a look at 10 interesting facts about the history of public administration. Public administration is an ever evolving area.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. It was this difference that became known as the politics-administration dichotomy.

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Public administration can be seen as the study of people, organizations, and institutions. Much of our work as public administration scholars has focused on individual-level outcomes or organizational variables, but in a context where we could take for granted a stable institutional background. Leadership and Motivation.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

While journalists covered the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements exhaustively, the body of literature in the academic world is still relatively small in examining outcomes based on these social movements; even smaller in public administration and political science emphasized journals.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

7) Meeting people where they are is not just a metaphor for social media but I think an extension of how the Obama administration has attempted to operate a particular type of constituent outreach. Right from the start of his campaign cycle up to his end, social media will have played a key part in his role as leader and figurehead.