Concept
Public administration
Overview
generic term for the administrations that perform tasks of the state, including bodies governed by public law
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Was not the Roman people a great nation? Is it a good thing that there should be great nations? It follows from considerations already established that there is an intermediate body in the state between subjects and sovereign; and this intermediate body, consisting of one or more members, is entrusted with the public administration, the carrying out of the laws, and the maintenance of civil and political liberty…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
States what Public administration is; names Public administration.
As regards government, three things are comprised therein, the first of which is to appoint those things which are to be done, and this belongs to the "Dominations"; the second is to give the power of carrying out what is to be done, which belongs to the "Virtues"; the third is to order how what has been commanded or decided to be done can be carried out by others, which belongs to the "Powers." The execution of the…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
Close in meaning to Public administration; the term itself is not named.
But a popular assembly is still less fitted to administer, or to dictate in detail to those who have the charge of administration. Even when honestly meant, the interference is almost always injurious. Every branch of public administration is a skilled business, which has its own peculiar principles and traditional rules, many of them not even known in any effectual way, except to those who have at some time had a…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
States what Public administration is; names Public administration.
Philosophers who discussed Public administration
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Chinese philosophy.