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Politics and Administration

Frank J. Goodnow My name : Dr. Marcella Shelby California Lutheran University

Politic and Administration • 1.Intro • 2.Goodnow impact • 3. Organization types • 4. Two functions of government • 5. Definition of administration • 6. The function of politics • 7. Party system

Goodnow As an Author

* Goodnow (1859-1939) has a huge impact on the study of public administration especially in the United States.

* His work is still used by modern scholars


 
 
 
 According to the Goodnow inside every organization, there are three types of authorities:
 


1. Judicial authorities - apply the law

2. Executive authorities- supervision of the execution of the state will.

3. Administrative authorities- to the scientific, technical and commercial activities of the government.

❑ Good now believes that there are two distinct functions of government.
 
 Politics has to do with policies or 
 expression of the state will.
 
 The administration has to do with the execution of these policies.
 


❖Definition of administration
 
 


* Different states assigned different organs to which most of the work of executing the will of the state has been entrusted. 
 
 * There are in all governmental systems two primary functions of government

The function of politics


• Politics should directly express the will of the state.

• It is also important that harmony exists between the expression of the low and the way the state execute it.

• This is where a relation between politics and administration must exist


 
 * Party system to ensure the separation of politic and 
 administration
 
 
 * Most countries found that party system is a good way to ensure the government doesn't have a tight grip over the administration.
 


References

•Goodnow, F. J. (1900). Politics and administration. New York: McMillan.