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“Development administration” is the administration of policies, programs, and projects that contribute to the development of a nation. Development administration has a broader impact than public administration since it is suggested that this kind of administration has significant sociopolitical and socioeconomic impact on the countries involved.
Development Administration as a concept
The Concept and Elements of Development Administration
Public administration as a concept is not new, and some suggest the term “administration” predates back to the earliest forms of civilization. Farazmand (1996), for example, suggests that it is old as civilization itself. However, the term itself became part of the wider academic discussion when Woodrow Wilson (1887) suggested that, unlike the broader discipline of political science, public administration was a detailed and systematic application of law. Gulick and Urwick (1937) later expanded the term to...
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Bissessar, A.M. (2016). Development Administration in the Caribbean. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2829-1
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