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Evaluate contemporary problems inherent in the workplace and public governance in the context of classical ideas and theories found within public administration literature
Understand and articulate the major paradigms of the field of public policy and administration
Interact effectively and demonstrate composure, professionalism, and respect for others.
What is Due?
Week 2 Discussion initial post, Public Administration: Identify and post the link to a news article or blog post on a current issue or policy related to public administration. After you briefly summarize the article, I'd like you to reflect on how research may help to understand, address, mitigate, or resolve the public administration issue. Use the required readings and film for this week to support your discussion post.
Introduction
This week we explore the discipline and practice of public administration from a theoretical as well as a practical perspective. The values of democracy strongly affect the practice of public administration, and lead to many differences between public and business administration. Public administrators work towards efficiency and effectiveness, while also being responsive to multiple stakeholders. The concept of publicness helps to define public administration, and also leads to tension between efficiency and responsiveness of public administrators. This tension embodies "politics and administration" as well as "bureaucracy and democracy".

The political context of public administration represents the Founders' concern over the concentration and distribution of power, which at time complicates the policy process. There are three main levels of government: local, state and federal. There are some common as well as some distinctive characteristics between these different levels of government. The Federal government is divided in to three branches, the executive, legislature, and judicial branches, which leads to a series of checks and balances related to administration, governance and policy development. Intergovernmental relations are complex, in large part due to federalism.