Public Administration is the discipline of learning from our worst mistakes so we don't repeat them.
As the old saying goes, "We curse the bureaucracy, but we miss it when it’s gone." If you’ve actually opened that PDF, you’ve stumbled upon the single most powerful lever of social change that nobody wants to talk about at a cocktail party. public administration.pdf
So, next time you groan about "red tape," remember: red tape is just scar tissue from a past disaster. Someone wrote that regulation because a bridge collapsed, or a bank robbed the poor, or a factory poisoned a river. Public Administration is the discipline of learning from
That PDF isn't boring. It’s the instruction manual for modern civilization. And frankly, we need more people who actually read the manual. Someone wrote that regulation because a bridge collapsed,
These people don't just follow rules.
Most people go into business to make money. People go into politics to get famous (or infamous). But people go into public administration to make things work .