2017-MPA-Morning

Public Administration is the general field of study for understanding what governments at different levels and their partners and contractors do, how public policies and programs are determined, designed, and implemented, how public funding is generated and public resources allocated among competing priorities. Public administration encompasses how governments and their partners at different levels plan, organize, provide, produce, distribute and assess the roles and responsibilities and the alignment of public services in their efforts to improve societal well-being.

The resulting programs and functions must also keep pace with unprecedented rapid change in an environment now driven by the dynamic forces of globalization, technology, marketization, and eco-sustainability. As a discipline, public administration integrates bodies of knowledge across many fields—intergovernmental relations, organizational theory, political economy, public policy analysis, public management, and constitutional and administrative law—that transcend the conventional and highly functional public administration subfields in public finance, budgeting, human resources, contracting, and program management and evaluation.

Public Administration seeks to enhance governance at all levels—both in international terms, to promote understanding of public policy and management in different states and economies around the globe, and in multi-jurisdictional terms, to promote trust and effective relationships among different stakeholders and partners across the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

Finally, public administration is deeply concerned with ensuring that its practitioners (and researchers) understand and exemplify the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct and lead the movement for organizational social responsibility and sustainable development to protect our environment.

Learning Objectives

To develop student’s ability to critically engage with intersections between state, governance and development
·       To develop student’s familiarity with problems of governance, development and his/her ability to exploit this knowledge and analyse our administrative systems
·       To develop the foundations of core public administration concepts and theories, and the foster the ability to critically appraise and apply them to our context.