Question

Discuss or explain Public Administration: as A Discipline in Search of a Subject Matter..

Answer 1

Public administration has for decades been an area of interdosciplinary study that requires no central theory per se. Lately, public administration has seen this crisis at various leves wherein the educational value and academic researches within the field have deteriorated or lost its significance that it once held in the past. The theories of the state need to be related to the structure and operation of the public organisations. Public administration as a subject matter of study is thus to be improvised and has to be located within the broader field of political theory. A discipline that ignores analysis of the role of administration in sustaining a structure of domination, repression and injustice is not a genuine social science. Therefore, to enhance the credibility of its functioning and more transparent processes within a societal system at large, it is essential to implement this perspective into practice and ensure its supervision at a political level as well.