Title FUNDAMENTAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ✅

1 Public Administration Keshav Raj Pande Lecturer Central Department of Public Administration Tribhuvan University
What is public administration? • Administrator as implementer: – PA may be defined as all processes, organizations and individuals associated with carrying out laws and other rules adopted or issued by legislatures, executives and courts. • Administrator as regulator/ service provider: – Public administration is the use of managerial, public, and legal theories and processes to fulfill legislative, executive, and judicial mandates for the provision of governmental regulatory and service functions. 2
What is... – Public administration is detailed and systematic execution of the law that excludes policy formulation as well as elected officials – Whatever governments do for good or ill. It is public administration’s political context that makes it public--that distinguishes it from private or business administration. 3
Key Approaches: • Managerial Approach (neutral bureaucrat; apolitical) – Traditional Managerial Approach: Civil Bureaucracy (“scientific approach”) – New Public Management: Competitive, business-like • Political approach: Public administrator as a reflection of the body politic • Legal approach: Public administrator as adjudicator 4