What Makes Public Administration a Science?
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Public administration, as a design science, exists at the nexus between the inner and outer environments of public organi- zations. As such, it integrates and synthesizes theories and proposi- tions from other disciplines including the behavioral sciences, the system sciences, and the natural sciences.

Why is public administration a science?

Public administration must be understood to be science because a scientific approach to its study can be used. It is not a science to the extent that it has preciseness or universal validity of laws or principles. … Public administration is primarily a science of observation rather than experiment.

Who said public administration is a science?

The earliest of them was Lorenz von Stein an 1855, a German professor from Vienna who said that public administration is an integrated Science and viewing it just as administrative laws was a restrictive definition.

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