Defining Public Administration: Selections from the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration
Defining Public Administration: Selections from the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration
Public administration is the totality of the working day activities of all of the world's bureaucrats, all of the people who work for governxnenbr/ vhether their activities are legal or illegal, competent or incompetent, $ccent or despkable. It is very much like trhe cosmos once described by fhe British scie~rtistJ . B. S. Haldane: The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose, Things are much the same with public administration. It is not only far vaster in s