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    PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Assignment SEMESTER 2 2012/2013 PSCI 2523 INSTRUCTOR “ACCOUNTABILITY” | NAME | MATRIC NO. | SECTION | 1 | | 1 | | | | | INTRODUCTION. When the word Public Administration come accross one’s mind, people would think of government civil workers and bureaucracy in government office. However, Public Administration is wider than that. It comprises of many part among them are technical issues,financal issues

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    The roll of ethics in public administration is based on the administration; administrators should be value-free when they implement public policy. I will discuss why ethics should be based on the administration and, why it should not be based on each individual worker in the administration. I will discuss Weber’s stance on values in bureaucratic organizations, what Macintyre suggests, and what Hummel and Goodsell would conclude about values in public administration. Most people do not understand

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    corporations. Parts of the ACA were therefore negotiated in order to satisfy multiple groups resulting in a “watered-down” product. Another important element was the fact that public health is not properly funded to address many of the health care needs such as disease prevention with only a small percentage of funding going to public health. This emphasizes the point that there is minimal importance given to this sector in health care. Lastly, the ACA faced the challenge due to the same opposition and

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    Public administration is a intricate fact of living in the United States. One will always face public administration during their lives. It is waiting at the DMV to get a driver’s license; it is applying for a mail-in ballot; it is receiving Social Security checks or paying taxes to the IRS. Discretion lives in each of these bureaucracies. According to Merriam-Webster, discretion is defined as, “power of free decision or latitude of choice within certain legal bounds”. Many career bureaucrats are

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    Jayson Allen PA 6610 FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CASE ANALYSIS The MOVE Disaster Jack H. Nagel Quality leadership is a telling sign of a successful organization. When given the opportunity to guide or direct others, a leader is capable of drawing individuals or groups together to accomplish certain goals. Given the responsibility to address a problem that had developed over a span of many months concerning a cult (an unorthodox or misguided group of extremist) called MOVE

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    belief. Public administration ethics is described as the representative’s administrator’s duty to the public to make considerate decisions based on the information that is provided for the public that he/she represents. These decisions should be made based on what the public that they represent views as correct. Ethics is usually what is right in the eye of the beholder or the one making the decision. A well known ethical theorist, Terry L. Cooper has suggested, the public administration literature

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    The Food and Drug Administration is a regulatory agency responsible for the public health of American residents. The agency is located in Silver Springs, Maryland. The current extent of FDA regulations reaches a wide variety of product groups such as electronic devices, cosmetics, foods, biologics, tobacco, medical devices, and veterinary devices (US Food & Drug Administration, 2016). The FDA is also accountable for the safety of the food supply, prescription drugs, and the manufacturing of products

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    Public Health is an important issue which directly affects all citizens of the United States. The administration of public health is not an issue that the citizens of the US realize directly affects them. The Obama administration and the Trump administration showcase two different approaches to the public administration of something like public health which affects all of us. The issues of the Affordable Care Act and health insurance are but two issues in public health. Other important issues include

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    Dietl: Unlike de Blasio, I can work with Cuomo and Trump Independent mayoral candidate Bo Dietl is informing New Yorkers if elected mayor of New York City, he can “work really well with the governor” of New York, as well as President Donald Trump instead of bashing them like Mayor de Blasio has done. “I really believe that I can work really well with the governor and stop the antagonistic attitude of this mayor to the governor and to the president,” Dietl said Thursday morning in a Press Conference

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    The Problems of Municipal Administration written by Jane Addams described the problems of public administration in targeted social publics that affected the community, specifically she mentioned the inequalities and injustices of municipal administration. The author stars by pointing out the failure of municipal administration to address the issues emerging in society. The social changes brought by the increased of industrialization in the 18th century failed to address the necessities of society

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