Countless scholars and practitioners over the years have attempted to legitimize the field of public administration, make sense of the so-‐called public administration dichotomy, and to reinforce or erase the connections between public administration and its more popular and more perhaps more heartless sibling, business administration.
The nation’s critical infrastructure is increasingly reliant on information technology, while cyberattacks continue to get worse. A well-trained cybersecurity workforce is essential to both government and private industry. With cyber threats growing, however, the United States faces a severe shortage of properly trained and equipped cybersecurity professionals. Two programs that seek to enha…
We analytically put the concept of public administration into perspective in this paper. In the process, we traced its genealogy and, its theoretical provisions as well as the implications and challenges of these provisional at each stage of its development. We specifically zeroed-in on the practical applications of these provisions in a country like Nigeria. Prominence was given to the feature…
There are increasing indications that public relations is slowly returning to the public administration curriculum. This was a common topic in early public administration literature, but by the second half of the 20th century it had largely disappeared from widely used textbooks. Now, with the increased power of the news media and other rapidly growing and changing alternative communications ve…