History and Theory of Public Administration

Generally speaking public administration is concerned with managing change in pursuit of publicly defined societal values. In the definition of the field are implied serious theoretical issues. What is the role of the public administrator in shaping and executing public policy? How might public organizations best he designed and managed? What are the proper roles and responsibilities of the public managers? In an effort to answer such questions students and practitioners of public administration over years have developed a variety of theoretical approaches. Yet all have been bound together to their attempt to conceptualize and to understand the management of public programme.