In this paper we try to analyze the meaning of the public administration term.In our opinion it is necessary to be able to define exactly what public administration means but at the same Outdoor Round End Table time to clearly distinguish it from the other sciences.This is due to the fact that very often confusion is made between public administration and public management, public administration and bureaucracy or public administration and policy.
Throughout this paper we hope to clarify some of the aspects related to what Storage exactly distinguishes public administration from the above mentioned sciences and what are its own particularities.