Public Works Administration

I once had an experience with one of the nation’s leading cable network and internet providers, early this year. One morning my internet and cable network went out since the same company provided me with both services; apparently, a huge mistake. I called the company to report the incident and to find out the reason for the outage. An operator answered the phone, listened to my complaint, and put me on hold. Apparently, such task was out of her jurisdiction. After long minutes on hold, I was…

The proliferation of technology the last 25 years or so has changed the way individuals access information. Instead of heading to a library or reading a newspaper for data people are now able to simply fire up their smartphone. Not only has technology impacted the daily lives of individuals across the globe, it has also caused governments to assess how they can capitalize on these emerging technological trends. With this in mind, E-Government was born. “Simply stated, e-Government is the use of…

Modernity had three profound impacts in the field of public administration. The first one was the separation of politics from administration in attempt to achieve efficiency in delivering public goods and services. The second impact was separating the role of the public administrator from the role of the citizen because they serve the public and are members of the public that they serve. The third thing that came up as a result of modernity was that public administrators became managers of…

The federal bureaucracy is divided into fifteen different executive departments and hundreds of agencies, bureaus, boards, authorities, and administrations. The bureaucracy also includes independent agencies and government corporations such as the post office (Shmoop). The bureaucracy is a body of unelected official that are responsible for handling and enforcing day to day responsibilities made by the president and congress. So who controls the bureaucracy? All three of the branches have some…

necessary to register. All companies have regulations, but not all are part of a regulatory agency. 3. What is meant by the term "cooperative federalism"? The cooperative federalism means that both the federal government and provincial governments work steadily, each in its area of competence by pooling their respective powers and resources to carry out certain purposes. We can distinguish two types of cooperation: Federation-states, each within their respective powers, make common projects.…

1. According to Rumsfeld, the ones who control the bureaucracy is the executive branch. Specifically, it is the people that are appointed by the President that has control, because they have the power of approval. Rumsfeld, as a former Secretary of Defense, was also a bureaucrat. The bureaucracy is necessary because its purpose is to provide a set of behaviors for a government to follow. A bureaucracy creates a “rule book” the government abides by, that helps in dealing with common situations.…

of the Republic by the character Charles Guiteau, he lived for a while in a place called oneida. He didn’t agree with their and their religion in general he had his own beliefs that he was better than them. He didn’t believe in how they all had to work as he found it “tiresome and demeaning” as well as he also claimed that he “[worked] directly for god.” He also didn’t like the method of criticisms at Oneida and he was often the one being criticized. All of these quotes show the challenges of…

BUREAUCRATIC MANAGEMENT THOUGHT This theory was given by Max Weber. Bureaucracy (a term widely used in govt. organizations) is an administrative system which is designed to accomplish large scale administrative tasks by systematically coordinating the work of many individuals. Max Weber has indentified three types of powers in the organizations: traditional, charismatic and rational-legal. He named rational legal power as bureaucratic power and claimed it to be the ideal type of power in the…

hierarchical levels of authority with the work assignments flowing downward.…

both other people and the political hierarchy helped bring more peace and order to the empire. Meanwhile, Confucius’s beliefs about how the government should treat its citizens were adopted by the ruling class, which led to a strong, yet fair, administration that made China even more powerful. By introducing bureaucracy based off of Confucian teachings, the Han dynasty was able incorporate the philosophy into everyday Chinese life, which resulted in a stronger, more fair…