Essay About The Essence Of Public Administration

The Essence of Public Administration The relevance of public administration in modern society cannot be denied, it has engulfed the modern state in its entirety, from political, economic, cultural, environmental and social. The acceptance of this notion indicates the ambiguity of the concept of the publicness of public administration. The confusion would make us ask the question of what public administration is all about? The task of this paper is to provide a satisfactory answer for the questions above; it will, first, give a synopsis of the article of Udo Pesch which gave an interesting insight as to how modern society, thinkers and practitioners of public administration, should look at the concept of the publicness of public administration thus providing a fuller grasp of the essence of public administration (Pesch, 2008). Second this paper will give its own interpretation on the concept of public administration by dwelling primarily to various political theorists. Lastly, this paper will arrive at the conclusion that considering the publicness of public administration would result to nothing more than an endless debate, thus agreeing primarily with Udo’s conclusion. This paper will attempt such a conclusion by citing instances from the Philippines thus providing an empirical source of the ambiguity.
I. Udo Pesch: The Publicness of Public Administration
Udo Pesch in his work started by

This realization thus provides an intelligible lens to view the incompatibilities of some works of both political and economic theorists. That is to look upon these works once more in the eyes of a “dimensionalist” we can have a better grasp of modern society, since the progress of history creates new ambiguities to concepts that were once