public administration

generic term for the administrations that perform tasks of the state, including bodies governed by public law
Intangible academic_discipline Q31728
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public administration

Summary

public administration is an academic discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,550 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • public administration's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • public administration is a type of civil service[4].
  • public administration is part of state[5].
  • public administration is part of quaternary sector of the economy[6].
  • public administration's Commons category is recorded as Public administration[7].
  • public administration comprises public office[8].
  • public administration comprises government administration[9].
  • public administration comprises statutory corporation[10].
  • public administration comprises state administration[11].
  • public administration comprises public management[12].
  • public administration's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Public administration[13].
  • public administration's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[14].
  • public administration's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • public administration's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[16].
  • public administration's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'APU'}[17].
  • public administration's studied by is recorded as science of public administration[18].
  • public administration's studied by is recorded as sociology of public administration[19].
  • public administration's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • public administration's P10203 is recorded as 3321[21].

Body

Definition and Type

public administration's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3]. It is a type of civil service[4].

Use and Application

Components include public office[8]; government administration[9]; statutory corporation[10], a legal term or legal concept[22]; state administration[11]; and public management[12], a public sector[23]. Part of include state[5], an administrative territorial entity type[24] and quaternary sector of the economy[6], an economic sector[25].

Why It Matters

public administration ranks in the top 7% of academic_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,550 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . roiw.org. roiw.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . dicosigles.fr. Retrieved . dicosigles.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . All Science Journal Classification Codes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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