What is public administration and its importance

Academic discipline; implementation or management of policy

This article is about the discipline. For the journal, see Public Administration (journal).

See also: Public policy, Political science, and Nonprofit management

Public administration, or public policy and administration refers to "the management of public programs",^[1] or the "translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day",^[2] and also to the academic discipline which studies how public policy is created and implemented.

In an academic context, public administration has been described as the study of government decision-making; the analysis of policies and the various inputs that have produced them; and the inputs necessary to produce alternative policies.^[3] It is also a subfield of political science where studies of policy processes and the structures, functions, and behavior of public institutions and their relationships with broader