Public Administration in Ancient Rome and Egypt

Abstract

The purpose of this research paper is to define the ancient public administration in Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt. Public administration theory is not a modern concept; both Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt had a well-developed public administration and borrowed by many different public administrations in the modern world. Ancient Rome had established different administrative hierarchies for military affairs, law, finance and taxation, internal affairs and foreign affairs, everyone with its central head of states. The administrative structure was well-thought out that later was borrowed by the Roman Catholic Church and applied to its structure. Officers reported back through their superiors to the emperor; the emperors were at the center of the state. On the other hand, Egypt had a well-structured public administration, as well. Ancient Egypt was a unitary system and at the central of the government was the pharaoh and was the chief justice of the country and presided over the entire administration, and under the pharaoh were the viziers. Ancient Egypt was structured with a central government and many local governments.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n6p385