Spanish Public Administration
...significantly different to the one I had studied in The Netherlands. This subject is not a separate field of study, it is taught in the Faculty of Law to students from Law, Law and Business Management and Law and Political Science. The name of this course is not Public Administration, as in The Netherlands, but Administrative Law, so by the name we can figure that it is taught from a different point of view from the Dutch course which is based more in how the public administration is organized.
The Administrative law is a group of regulations that ruled the organization, functioning and competences of the Public Administration in its relations with individuals and with other Public Administrations. This theoretical concept does not exactly match with reality because neither all the administration´s activity is ruled by Administrative Law (it can also by ruled by Private Law) nor only Public Administrations are ruled by Administrative Law.
Specifically, in my university (Universidad de Granada) the Administrative Law is divided in two courses, one last one semester and the other one a whole year. They are very extensive courses and the main subjects which are taught in them are the followings:
• Administrative organization
• Administrative acts and contracts
• Public services
• State´s good system
• State´s function system
• Administrative proceedings
• The contentious-administrative process
• Etc...
According to the number of students who follow these lectures I cannot say an exact number but I can guarantee that they are a lot because any student from Law, Law and Business Management and Law and Political Science must be enrolled in both courses because they are compulsory.
In Spain there is not a division, as in the Netherlands, of...
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