Outline of public affairs
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to public affairs:
Public affairs - catch-all term that includes public policy as well as public administration, both of which are closely related to and draw upon the fields of political science and economics.- Public - in public relations and communication science, the contexts of "public" are:
- * Publics - groups of individuals
- * The public - the totality of such groups.
- Affairs - professional, personal, or public business matters.
Branches of public affairs
- Public policy - principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. Public policy is commonly embodied "in constitutions, legislative acts, and judicial decisions."
- Public administration - implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work.
- State, Sovereign state, government
- * Democracy
- * Monarchy
- * Republic
- Security
- * Crime, Criminal justice
- * Civil defense, Emergency preparedness, Community emergency response teams
- * Military
- Regulation, Deregulation
- * Industrial policy, Investment policy, Tax, tariff and trade
- * Public health, Pollution, Emissions trading
- Budget
- * Socialism
- * Taxation
- * Technocracy
- Management
- Public policy degrees
