Public administration focuses on pretty much everything in our everyday lives. Government, decision making, communication, and many other things deal with public administration. Public administration faces many different issues. One is efficiency vs. responsiveness. In order for the government to be responsive, Congress had to make different departments and such to help distribute the work so that the people could be helped better in turn, having the citizens be happy. The government was made to be responsive because it allows for citizens to be able to voice their concerns and be heard. Although the government is responsive, it needs to be efficient meaning, they have to unfortunately sometimes turn down citizens' demands.
A thing that helps keep things running smoothly in the government is bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is when appointed officials manage government departments and agencies. However, like with anything in this world, too much of one thing (bureaucracy, for example) can be a bad thing for most.
Public policy, decisions the governments makes to find solutions to potential problems, is a key process in the government. It starts with the formation stage where the problem is identified and an agenda is made. The next stage is the formulation stage where solutions are discussed and edited. The third stage is adoption. A governor, for example, “adopts” the policy in this stage. The fourth stage, implementation, is when a specific agency is designated and authorized to handle the problem. Evaluation, the fifth stage, is the stage where they see if the policy is working well to fix the problem. Finally, the feedback stage is when the ones that adopted the policy consider information and decide whether to keep the policy, fix it, or eliminate it altogether.
