Interpretation Politics in Public Administration

Question: Discuss about the Interpretation Politics in Public Administration. Answer: Introduction: The study of public policy that are linked with public administration, put emphasis on different government and non government reaction given over public problems in order to resolve those issues. On the other hand, public administration deals studies about different bureaucracies and how they communicate with the different political institution. Like here in case of McNamra and Rumsfield ( two longest serving secretary of defense in America ).There might have been civil servants who are ineffective and inefficient , or over bureaucratized professionals who contribute negatively to public sector performance (Foote 2007). Although while the governments is developing and implementing different plans for public administration still today in some countries the traditional connotation of civil service is strictly avoided. Public administration is notice to provide some special concern to carry out proper investigation over management that is necessary for public policy formulation (Lane 2009). It is important to state that public administration is a field of inquiry which has diverse scope, its fundamental goal is to make out proper management of different policies that ensures a smooth functioning of the government in a country. Some other statements about public administration suggest that it is all about proper management of different public programs, proper transformation of politics into reality so that people could develop courage every day to face it and last but not the least, it the study of government decision making (Olaleye 2005). The North American Industry Classification system suggest that public administration more or less is lined with different activities of government nature that highlights complete enactment and judicial elucidation of different legal rules and pursuant regulations. List of some ethical issues which were not defensible in the case study: To understand the ethical issues those were not defensible in the case study. We need to understand the case of Mc Namara. He was the secretary of defense of America at the time of Vietnamese war. Due to his actions and orders ten thousands of Americans and millions of Vietnamese lost their lives. He was termed as a coward due to his hypocrisy and his silence. He was the architect of the Americas military strategy in Vietnam and was also one of the strongest supporters of war. Due to which the war according to the critics was called as McNamaras war . In his memoire, Mc Namara admitted he knew the war was possible to win before he left out his work place, but he did not do so and carried on to transpher blood as well as treasury in order to stay stick towards his loyalty for the president. There were many people regarded this action of his was due to money, but still others say he was quite wealthy and money could not be the motivator. When he was asked by Newsweek on April 17, 1995, whether he was loyal to American people or to the President. He replied that as a officer of the cabinet, he had to do as the president desires or leave the job. However there is nothing written in the constitution that former cabinet secretaries lose their rights as citizens to complain about attack of the president they served previously. References: Foote, E. V. (2007). Statutory Interpretation or Public Administration: How Chevron Misconceives the Function of Agencies and Why It Matters. Administrative Law Review, 59(4), 673. Lane, J. E. (2009). State Management: An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration Management. Routledge. Olaleye, A. (2005). Fundamentals of public administration. Akure: Stecom Publishers. Otenyo, E. E., Lind, N. S. (2006). Comparative public administration: the essential readings (Vol. 15). Emerald Group Publishing. Spicer, M. W. (2010). In defense of politics in public administration: A value pluralist perspective. University of Alabama Press.