Public administration

Examples of Public administration in the following topics:

• Weber's Model for Bureaucracy

  • Weberian bureaucracy was a term coined by Max Weber, a notable German sociologist, political economist, and administrative scholar, who contributed to the study of bureaucracy, administrative discourses, and literature during the mid-1800s and early 1900s .
  • In his 1922 masterpiece, Economy and Society, Weber described many ideal types of public administration and governance.
  • Many aspects of modern public administration date back to him.
  • As a result of the development of communication and transportation technologies, like telegraphs and automobiles, a more efficient administration became not only possible but demanded by the public.
  • This resulted in public demands for a new administrative system that treated all humans equally.

• Bureaucracies and Formal Groups

  • A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.
  • Public administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work.
  • In the US, civil servants and academics such as Woodrow Wilson promoted American civil service reform in the 1880s, moving public administration into academia.
  • As opposed to bureaucrats carrying out "desk jobs," street-level bureaucracy is the subset of a public agency or government institution containing the individuals who carry out and enforce the actions required by laws and public policies.

• Courts

  • A court is a form of tribunal with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties, and carry out the administration of justice.
  • A court is a form of tribunal, often a governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties, and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.

• Controlling the Behaviors of Group Members

  • The invasion plan was initiated by the Eisenhower administration, but when the Kennedy White House took over, it "uncritically accepted" the CIA's plan.
  • The invasion plan was initiated by the Eisenhower administration, but when the Kennedy White House took over, it "uncritically accepted" the CIA's plan.
  • Janis claimed the fiasco that ensued could have been prevented if the Kennedy administration had followed the methods to preventing groupthink that it followed later during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Examples of these situations include public policy, terrorism, college life, and violence.
  • The invasion plan was initiated by the Eisenhower administration, but when the Kennedy White House took over, it "uncritically accepted" the CIA's plan.

• Gender Inequality in Health Care

  • The Obama administration faced another controversy over gender equity in healthcare in 2012 with the administration's contraceptive mandate.
  • In January of 2012, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, announced that all health care plans were required to provide coverage for contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
  • The effective meaning of Secretary Sebelius' announcement was that contraceptives are considered by the Obama administration to be a requisite component of health care.

• Rational-Legal Authority

  • The prerequisites for the modern Western state are the monopoly by a central authority of the means of administration and control; the monopoly of legislative authority; and the organization of officialdom, dependent upon the central authority.
  • First, an administrative and legal order that has been created and can be changed by legislation that also determines its role.
  • Ration-legal authority depends on routinized administration, which often involves a lot of paperwork.

• Traditional Authority

  • He has no administrative staff, nor any machinery to enforce his will by force alone.
  • The similarity is that both are based on tradition and have powerful rulers who grant rights in return for military and administrative services.

• Crime and Criminal Justice

  • Like all other aspects of criminal justice, the administration of punishment has taken many different forms throughout history.
  • In the United States, criminal justice policy has been guided by the 1967 President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, which issued a ground-breaking report titled "The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society. " This report made more than 200 recommendations as part of a comprehensive approach toward crime prevention.

• Control Theory

  • Centralized control, such as bureaucratic control, is typically maintained through administrative or hierarchical techniques that create standards or policies.

• Neighborhood

  • In addition to social neighbourhoods, most ancient and historical cities also had administrative districts used by officials for taxation, record-keeping, and social control.