Public Administration as a Cultural and Social Phenomenon

The phenomena of public administration are also objects of study for purposes other than the development of public administration. That is, public administration can be the focus of study of other disciplines or concerns, much as religion can be a topic of investigation for a sociologist who is not religious and has not interest in improving religious experience for the Godly. Thus, complex organizations, bureaucracy, and variety of organizational, administrative, and policy phenomena constitute topics of interest to scholars from a variety of disciplines, fields, and perspectives. Economists, sociologists, political scientists, philosophers, historians, students of literature and of communications and rhetoric, and a host of other academic specialists find public administration and its phenomena worthwhile objects of investigation. The field of public administration, for its part, contributed to, profits from, and incorporates such studies.