Public Interest or Public Best Interest

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The paper shows the difficulty the public administrator is faced with when deciding what is the "public interest" or "public best interest" and that sometimes the administrator has to make decisions based on the community "best" interests or the "objective control of administration". Sections of the paper include: Pluralists and the Public Administrator, The Public as Consumers, The Public as Represented, The Public as Client and the Public as Citizen.

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"Other examples can be commercials. If a child sees cereal with a toy in it, he/she will beg and cry until the mother buys the cereal. The mother may know this is not the "best interest" of the child because it lacks important vitamins or may be full of sugar. The commercial has placed value on knowing children will see the commercial and will talk their parents into buying it. The interest of the children is met, but not the "best" interest of the children."

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