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Public administration - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Administrator, Application, Archon, Auspices, Authority, Board, Bureaucracy, Cabinet, Chancellor, Charge, Claws, Command

Public administration is, broadly speaking, the implementation of policy within a state framework. A good working definition is, "taking care of the state's, and international organizations', business by civil servants within the executive branch of government, other than public policy." Like law or medicine, but unlike economics and political science/politics, public administration is the term both for the subject matter and for the academic study of the same.

See also: American Society for Public Administration

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Example Usage of administration
M0rgan1: Intel Committee Republican Says administration is Withholding Information on Fort Hood Attack http://bit.ly/3PAEcu
yueeryou: "I spent most of my time (@ college) occupying various administration buildings。smoking a lot of Thai stick。breaking into the ROTC &bowling"
jeanniemcbride: I have been trying for months now to inform the Obama administration that our government spends too much, I am not under-taxed! #tcot
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