Introduction to Public Administration

Author: Zhang Gang
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Public Administration is an interdisciplinary and applied discipline that studies public sector management activities, particularly government management activities. Although Public Administration is one of the important branches of general management, due to the particularity and complexity of public sector management activities, as well as the interdisciplinary nature of management itself, the formation and development of Public Administration have also been deeply influenced by other related disciplines. Typical examples include political science, economics, law, sociology, etc. This influence is particularly evident in the continuous borrowing of concepts and analytical frameworks from these related disciplines during the development of Public Administration. Therefore, to understand public sector management and Public Administration comprehensively and accurately, one cannot be limited to the perspective of general management but must adopt a broader theoretical view that integrates other related disciplines. Only within this interdisciplinary and complementary broader perspective can the "management" and "publicness" that form the foundation of Public Administration be properly understood and grasped.