Public Utility Management (Public Administration Series Textbooks)

Author: Zhao Libo, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: For emerging disciplines, the urgency and importance of establishing basic norms and core curricula are significant. The public administration major emerged alongside China's economic system transition, social transformation, government management system reform, and especially the reform of public sector management. Its foundational disciplines include higher education programs such as educational management, healthcare administration, cultural and arts management, and sports management. Its primary academic background is management, particularly public management. Although the public administration major has only been offered for a short time, it has rapidly developed due to its relevance to real-world needs and its outstanding practicality, becoming a "visible discipline" with rapid growth in public management and broad social application prospects in the entire management field. Public administration courses are the most important courses in the public administration major. However, regarding major issues such as the disciplinary positioning, fundamental scope, and logical framework of public administration courses, the academic community still holds many differing views, even completely opposing ones.