Halduskultuur
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Estonia

Journal ISSN: 17366070, 17366089

Publisher: Halduskultuur Tallinn University of Technology

History: 2009-2020

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Public administration is as Woodrow Wilson writes in 1887 government in action. Government comes into existence according to Aristotles famous phrase for the sake of lifefor our protectionyet it exists for the good life. The good life is the reason we have governments. Can we have a science about good government actionsabout good public administration Public administration as a discipline of contemporary scholarly inquiry emerges precisely from the need to design better government actions and from the need to know what makes government actions better and why. This is the beginning of Kameralwissenschaften in 17th century continental Europe epitomized by the publication of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorffs Der Teutsche Frstenstaat in1656. This tradition climaxes in 19th century German Staatswissenschaften which is however also a decidedly Estonian tradition some of the most important representatives of the late 19th century German Staatswissenschaften Wagner Lexis Stieda Laspeyres Bcher worked at one point in their career in Estonia. Administrative Culture firmly positions itself within this tradition which by default means openness to other traditions schools and also cultures and languages.