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The nature and approaches in public administration

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Total cards: 17•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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A Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC, and is currently serving as Chair Professor of Public Management, City University of Hong Kong.

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David H. Rosenbloom

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best known for coming up with three approaches that define the American foundation of Public Administration: the managerial, political, and legal.

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David H. Rosenbloom

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Key areas include administrative decision- making, managerial techniques, leaders, and employee contributions.

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managerial approach

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Discusses how the political officials oversee the different administrative decisions. Politicians have the final say on the laws that public administrators are tasked with executing.

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political approach

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a principle stating that politics and administration should remain separate in the public sector which was developed by the Civil Service Reforms of the 1870s and the 1880s.

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Politics/Administration Dichotomy

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The ____was, according to Rosenbloom, the most crucial. The Rule of Law involves orderliness, comprehension, and spells out when and how tasks will be completed.

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Legal approach

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The relevance of the profession to the practitioners and to the public in catering to public good

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occupational approach

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As a political science, PA is _____ “Public Administration is the totality of the working day activities of all the world’s bureaucrats.”

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what government does

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as political science public administration is _____ “Privatization has forced public administration to take different forms.”

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both direct and indirect

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as political science public administration is _______ “Public policy and public administration are two sides of the same coin. One decides, the other does.”

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a phase in the public policy-making cycle

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as political science public administration is _____ “The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.”

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implementing the public interest

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as political science public administration is ____ “Public administration is the mature manifestation of the community spirit.”

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doing collectively that which cannot be so well done individually

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as a political science, public administration is (there are 5)

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• what government does • both direct and indirect • a phase in the public policy-making cycle • implementing the public interest • doing collectively that which cannot be so well done individually

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as a form of management public administration is (there are 3)

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• the executive function in government • a management specialty • art not science or vice versa

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as a form of MANAGEMENT, PA is____ “The administration of government…in its most usual and perhaps most precise signification…is limited to executive details and falls peculiarly within the province of the executive department.”

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The Executive Function in Government

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as a form of MANAGEMENT, PA is____ “Management refers both to the people responsible for running an organization and to the running process itself.”

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A Management Specialty

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as a form of MANAGEMENT, PA is____ “The administration art is judgment, panache, and common sense.”

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Art, not Science or Vice Versa