Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance philosopher, writer, and political theorist. He is best known as the author of The Prince, a 16th-century political treatise on statesmanship and government. Published in 1532, The Prince analyzes how politics actually work, rather than how they ideally should work. It draws on examples from Ancient Rome and Machiavelli’s […]
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Public administration is a field of study that explores how government policy is carried out and how government works. The nature and scope of public administration have been the subject of debate for decades among scholars. During the Progressive Era in the United States, when the government responsibilities grew, it emerged in the late 19th
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In this post, we are going to highlight and discuss 10 characteristics of public administration. These 10 characteristics state that public administration is inherently political. it is also concerned with the public interest. public administration operates within a legal framework is often characterized by bureaucracy and is in essence accountable to the public. public administration
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The study of public administration has evolved over the past century, with different eras placing emphasis on distinct theories, approaches, and focal points. Though early notions of a strict separation between politics and administration laid the groundwork for the field of public administration, scholars have since sought to better integrate politics and administration in recognition
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In the modern era, Machiavelli has been credited as the first true political thinker. In many ways, he can be considered as the child of his time. He has elaborated at length his theories of the separation of politics from ethics and statecraft in his masterpiece, ‘The Prince’. Throughout the book, he talks about his
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Greece adopted the practice of slavery as a fundamental part of ancient civilization. As most of the nations of the world accepted the practice of slavery, no thinker dared to oppose this system. Aristotle accepted the slave system in his entire composition. Aristotle’s emotional support for slavery is indicative of his political conservatism. He thought
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Plato, the Greek philosopher, wanted to build an ideal state, ruled by the philosopher king, mentioned in his famous book The Republic. He had observed different types of regimes, but he considered monarchy as the best form of government. So he came up with a monarchy regime to build an ideal state and Plato’s philosopher
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Plato reviewed the condition of the Greek city-states at that time. He observed that there were full of anarchy and tyranny in Athens. After his observation, he prepared the outline of an ‘ideal state’ to establish national strength, harmony prosperity, and unity among the people. Plato created his ideal state and discussed the relationship between
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