Part I: Governance, Politics, and the Public

Part III: Ethics, Citizenship, and Benevolence in Public Administration

Frederickson did take the initiative to explain public administration and some of its functions before going in-depth on different facets of the role. Some great topics discussed were governance, fairness and social equity, and ethics and public administration.

Frederickson begins in Chapter 1 by explaining that "public administration is both a profession and field of study (p. 19)." This statement is very exact. Often times public administrators focus on the profession and do not practice studying their role in society. "The word administration is the subject of extended study, analysis, and discourse (p. 19)." Meaning the role of the public administrator is t

Chapters 8 through 11 focused on boundaries and roles that the public administrator should adhere to and how negative views of government effect administrators in a positive and negative light. These chapters seem to become redundant and uninformative because they seem to focus more on a national level than local and most administrators' function at a state or local capacity. In Chapter 8 Frederickson discusses several points on the pros and cons of negative views of government:

4. The use of governance as a surrogate for public administration masks the fundamental issue of what ought to be the role of non-elected public officials in a democratic party

4. Authorities and special districts (fraud on fee-for-service contracts).

2. Television town meetings and a civic communications cooperative

2. Governance is a remarkable fusion of popular literature on government reform, popular executive politics, serious empirical scholarship, and modern public administration theory.

Chapters 7 through 11 compose Part III of The Spirit of Public Administration. Part III discusses Ethics, Citizenship, and Benevolence in Public Administration. Chapter 7 discusses very controversial issues on ethics in public administration. The chapter effectively begins by discussing how government reform of the early 20th Century has affected American government today and that the current practices of ethic reform will have the same lasting effect. In early government.."Increasing administrative capacity and decreasing politics reduced corruption. In the present case, we are moving in the opposite direction, reducing administrative capacity and increasing political control, with the probability that more rather than less corruption will result (p.181)." A point that Frederickson stated was that "today, government provides more controls on political corruption than in the past (p.181)." Based on recent events that continuously occur, i.e. embezzlement, fraud, that statement may have been slightly skewed.

5. A national initiative and referendum process

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