public administration

noun

1. the implementation of public policy, largely by the executive branch.
2. a field of study preparing persons for careers in such work.

Example Sentences

He never directed another seminar on public administration in developing countries or wrote another book on public policy.

From The Daily Beast

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.

From Project Gutenberg

But even the omnipotence of Jovius and Herculius was insufficient to sustain the weight of the public administration.

From Project Gutenberg

The number of this class needing public administration is calculated at 7615.

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We have seen that in Massachusetts the principal part of the public administration lies in the township.

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Under its sway, the transactions of the public administration are not nearly so important as what is done by private exertion.

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