CHAPTER ONE

1.

How would you define public administration in one phrase, one paragraph, or an essay?

Public administration is a braid term that refers to the administrative services and policies

necessary to build a society at all levels to include state, federal and local.

2. Is public administration among the oldest or newest areas of study, or both? Both. Public

administration as an academic field of study is fairly new, however the traditional areas of

political, legal, social and cultural fields, just to name a few, extend beyond the 1900's.

3. Is public administration an amalgam of various areas of study or a field unto itself? To what extent

do you think public administration has to be more interdisciplinary, rather than relying on its

traditional emphasis in political science and business management? As public administration

cannot exist outside of the context of politics, it is considered a field unto itself, however as the

field encompasses both political science and business management and in the wake of evolving