lesson 1: what is public admin

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2 perspectives used to conceptualize public administration:

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field of study, field of practice

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science of management

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efficiency and economy

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Governments should be run like

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a business

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politics admin dichotomy

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politics about making decisions, admin about implementing them

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1947: IPAC – Institute of Public Admin in Canada

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Encourage young people to enter the field of public admin to get them involved

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1958: CPA – Canadian Public admin journal

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issues within Canadian public admin

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1987: CAPPA – canadian association of programs in the public admin

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Canadian association of programs in public admin
Membership based association

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field of practice

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Tangible things the government does

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the bureaucracy

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form of work organzation

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5 Elements of bureaucracy

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Personnel, formal rules, policy instruments, conventions of behaviour, institutions

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What role do the personnel play in the bureaucracy?

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people who work for governments
Municipal, provincial, federal

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Merit principle

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best possible candidate hired
Designed to ensure fair and open recruitment and free from political influence

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What are the Formal rules of the bureaucracy?

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Services that they provide are put out in a reputable manner and regulations are being properly enforced
Rules served to treat people equally

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What are the Policy instruments of the bureaucracy?

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Tools gov used to provide services and enforce regulations

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What are the Conventions of Behaviour in the bureaucracy?

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Informal and formal rules
- React and tend to reinforce each other
Culture and norms
- Varies between and in organizations

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What are the Institutions of the bureaucracy?

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Modern governments are very complex orgs
Crown corps, myriad of ministries

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business admin =

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private admin

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5 facets that are different between the public and private administration?

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Time horizon, goal measurement, human resource constraints, efficiency vs equity, accountability

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public time horizon

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operate on short time frame
Tend to move around a lot
Driven by the electoral cycle

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private time horizon

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operate on long time frame
Investments, long-term projects

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private goal measurement

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tend to have a bottom line
Concerned with profit, market, performance and survival

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public goal measurement

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act in the public interest (vary over time)
Provides public goods for everyone’s benefit

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what gov goals are hard measure and address on its own

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. improve quality of life, reduce poverty rates

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public hr constraints

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more difficult for the government to hire/hire workers
public is detailed and time consuming

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public is less or more effiecent than private

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far less

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public is interested in ___ practice

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equitable

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private interested in …

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profit maximization

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public admin is more or less open to scrunity than business admin?

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more open

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the state

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All governments in a given jurisdiction

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proper role of the state

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effects the bureaucracy

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conservative

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limited
Smaller gov and less gov intervention in society and economy

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what party sees bureaucracy as a problem rather than a solution

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conservative

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liberal =

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larger
More gov intervention in society and economy in public’s interest