Public Administration: Theory And Practice
by Hoshiar Singh /
2011 / English / PDF
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Public administration consists of the activities undertaken by a government to look after its people, or tomanage its affairs. Before discussing the various interpretations of the concept of public administration, itis pertinent to understand the meaning of the terms ‘public’ and ‘administration’ separately.The word ‘public’ stands for the people of a definite territory or state. As the will of the people of a stateis represented by the government of the state, the word ‘public’ also has a specialised, governmental mean-ing. Therefore, the acts of administration performed by the government are called ‘public administration’.Those acts which are undertaken by individuals in their own capacity are termed ‘private administration’.
