Evolution of the Thoughts of Public Administration and Its Understanding Following the Perspectives of Political Science, Management and Law

Bacho Bitari Khuroshvili

doi:10.54201/iajas.v3i2.66

Authors

Bacho Bitari Khuroshvili University of Wroclaw https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9391-3751

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54201/iajas.v3i2.66

Keywords:

thoughts of public administration, public administration evolution, public administration perspectives, politics and administration

Abstract

The article aims to understand, analyze, and explain the evolution of the understanding of public administration from the perspectives of political science, management and law. The paper begins to study public administration from its classical type, where three perspectives of it are studied synthetically, as well as its potential as an independent administrative science. The article answers why and how the field is considered, even at the level of defining the concept of public administration and how it differs from management, law and political science. Additionally, the work demonstrates the visions expressed by such authors as Max Weber, Woodrow Wilson, Frank Goodnow, Leonard White, Herbert A. Simon, Luther Gulick and Dwight Waldo.

Author Biography

Bacho Bitari Khuroshvili, University of Wroclaw

PhD Candidate, University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science.

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