645 Theory of Public Administration
Content
- Basic concepts on administration
- State and public administration
- Administrative science as an interdisciplinary scientific discipline
- Developing the science of administration
- Public administration and law
- Administrative system
- Theories of administration
- Local administration as part of public administration
- Legal and administrative cultures
- Public administration in European administrative space
- Public administration and globalisation
- Public administration and protection of human rights
Objectives and competences
General aims of the subject:
- Student is acquainted with the basic theoretical knowledge on public administration as a substantive basis for further administrative-legal subjects in the program,
- Student identifies the administrative science as an independent interdisciplinary scientific discipline and with that related questions
- Student familiarises with the development of administrative science and with the theories of public administration and uses his own findings to solve problems.
Subject-specific competencies:
- Student can express his professional opinions on everyday issues and practices on historic view of (evolution) of administrative science,
- Student masters the fundamental concepts and techniques of administration
- Student is able to obtain information for creating the necessary legislative solution
- Student is able to evaluate the data in the field of administration in the light of social, professional and ethical aspects
- Student is able to install the individual problems and the process of modernization of public administration in general elements of development through the use of scientific methods (deduction, induction, analysis-synthesis)
- Student masters the use of critical analysis and theory development in solving work problems