Introduction to Public Administration At University Of Ghana – erykme.com

This course seeks to introduce students to the very basic concepts and theories underlyingadministration in the public sector. It focuses on the unique social, political, economic and culturalcontext within which Ghanaian public administration is practised. The key topics to be coveredinclude: definitions, nature and scope of public administration; the role of public administration in

national development; the relationship and differences between public administration andbusiness

administration; the nature of central government machinery, public-private sector dichotomy, thepolitics-administration debate and the constitutional and legal setting of public administration.

Other topics include: the constituent parts of the public sector inGhana; i.e., the public services,

public corporations/enterprises, public boards/commissions, subvented agencies and the local

government systems.