ORAL TOPIC - 1

1- Public Administration
The term “administration” has a long history. Some authors consider
that the term coincides with the formation of the state long ago.
In it broadest sense, administration can be defined as the activities of
groups cooperating to accomplish common goals.
Public administration is art or sience. The first, it is an art because
some people have a gift for administration and become natural
administrators. As a sience, public administration requires necessary
tools that allow for the digestion and transference of information.
Lawrence considers public administration as a professio. Public
administration includees whatever the public employees of the world do
ranging from typing documents to running general elections.
According to Fletcher, “public administration can be used to denote:
(1) The activity of public servants; (2) The structure of executive
government: that is the institutions and patterns of relationships through
which the activity of public servants as carried on; (3) The study of (1)
and (2).
Waldo gave the following definition of public administration: “ (1)
public administration is the organization and management of men and
materials to achive the purposes of government. (2) public administration
is the art and sience of management as applied to affairs of the state.
The components of the executive are :administrative power” and
“regulatory power”. Administration institutions are comprised of legal
and regulatory documents and rules to govern the organizations. 2- The political system of the SRV
The SRV is an independent and sovereign country enjoying unity and
territorial intergrity, including its mailand, islands, territorial waters and

People’s office of Supervision and Control, the Vietnam Fatherland Front
and its member organizations may present drawf laws to the NA.
Laws and resolutions of the NA must be approved by more than half
of the total membarship of the NA; but decisions taken by the NA to
amend the Constitution as stated in Article 147 must be approved by at
least two- thirds of its total membership. Laws and resolutions of the NA
must be made pblic fifteen days after their adoption at the least.
The role of the Permanent Committee of the NA is to interpret the
Constitution, the law and decree- laws, to enact decree-law on matters
entrusted to it by the NA.

4- The Government of the SRV
The Government of the SRV is the excutive body of the NA and the
highest state administrative body of the SRV.
The Government assumes the unified administration of the
implementation of all political, economic, cultural, social, national
defense, security and external activities of the state.
The Government is accountable to the NA, the Satnding Committee of
the NA and the President of the sate.
The Government consist of ministries and ministerial level agencies.
The NA appoints the Prime Minister, Vice- Prime Minister, ministers and
heads of ministerial agencies.