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The first work on the study of public administration is attributed to:
(a) Woodrow Wilson
(b) Frederick Taylor
(c) Henry L Gant
(d) Max Weber
Answer: a
Note: Woodrow Wilson was the first to write about how public administration and politics should be separated so that one doesn’t interfere with the other. Since his 1887 essay “The Study of Public Administration” gave recognition to this discipline as a distinct subject matter.

Public Administration may be defined as:
(a) Management of industry
(b) Administration of Public
(c) Management of Property
(d) Administrative Capacity
Answer: b
Note: Woodrow Wilson defined public administration as a detailed and systematic execution of public law, he divided government institutions into two separate sectors, administration and politics.

The study of government decision making, the analysis of the policies themselves, the various inputs that have produced them, and the inputs necessary to produce alternative policies is called
(a) Administration of Authority
(b) Public administration
(c) Property administration
(d) Administrative Capacity
Answer: b
Note: The management of public programs is called Public administration.
The “translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day” is called Public administration.