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Public, adj, is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private
Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy which is both run for private profit and is not controlled by the state. By contrast, enterprises that are part of the state are part of the public sector; private, non-profit organizations are regarded as part of the voluntary sector....
; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. Public, n, is also defined as the people of a nation not affiliated with the government of that nation.

Public to the general body of mankind
Mankind

Mankind may refer to:* The human speciesMankind may also refer to the male members of the human species, whereas womankind commonly refers to the female members....
 or of a nation
Nation

A nation is a cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other, yet feel a common bond, it may be considered an imagined community....
, state
State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
, or community
Community

In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment .In human communities, intention, belief, Natural resource, preferences, Need assessment, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the Identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness....
; the people
The People

The People, previously known as the Sunday People, is a United Kingdom tabloid Sunday-only newspaper, owned by the Trinity Mirror Group....
, indefinitely; as, the public; also, a particular body or aggretion of people; as, an author's public.






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Public, adj, is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private
Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy which is both run for private profit and is not controlled by the state. By contrast, enterprises that are part of the state are part of the public sector; private, non-profit organizations are regarded as part of the voluntary sector....
; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. Public, n, is also defined as the people of a nation not affiliated with the government of that nation.

Public to the general body of mankind
Mankind

Mankind may refer to:* The human speciesMankind may also refer to the male members of the human species, whereas womankind commonly refers to the female members....
 or of a nation
Nation

A nation is a cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other, yet feel a common bond, it may be considered an imagined community....
, state
State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
, or community
Community

In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment .In human communities, intention, belief, Natural resource, preferences, Need assessment, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the Identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness....
; the people
The People

The People, previously known as the Sunday People, is a United Kingdom tabloid Sunday-only newspaper, owned by the Trinity Mirror Group....
, indefinitely; as, the public; also, a particular body or aggretion of people; as, an author's public. "Public network" means a network that is regulated as a common carrier
Common carrier

A common carrier is a business that transports people, goods, or services and offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided by a regulatory body....
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Aggens (1983) in the paper titled "Identifying different levels of public interest in participation" states: "There is no single public, but different levels of public based on differing levels of interest and ability".

Selected bibliography

  1. Dewey, John
    John Dewey

    John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and school reform whose thoughts and ideas have been highly influential in the United States and around the world....
    . Public & Its Problems, Swallow Press, June 1954, ISBN 0-8040-0254-1.
  2. Habermas, Jürgen
    Jürgen Habermas

    J?rgen Habermas is a Germany philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, the topic of his first book....
    . The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), The MIT Press; Reprint edition, August 28, 1991, ISBN 0-262-58108-6.
  3. Habermas, Jürgen
    Jürgen Habermas

    J?rgen Habermas is a Germany philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, the topic of his first book....
    . The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeword and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Thomas McCarthy (Translator), Beacon Press; Reprint edition, 1987, ISBN 0-8070-1401-X.
  4. Hannay, Alastair
    Alastair Hannay

    Alastair Hannay is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He was born in Plymouth, England and has been a resident of Norway since 1961....
    . On the Public, Routledge; 1 edition, July 13, 2005, ISBN 0-415-32792-X.
  5. Kierkegaard, Soren. A Literary Review (Penguin Classics), Alastair Hannay (Translator), Penguin Classics, March 26, 2002, ISBN 0-14-044801-2.
  6. Lippmann, Walter
    Walter Lippmann

    Walter Lippmann was an influential United States award-winning writer, journalist, and political commentator. Lippman was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 and 1962 for his syndicated newspaper column, "Today and Tomorrow"....
    . The Phantom Public (Library of Conservative Thought), Transaction Publishers; Reprint edition, January 1, 1993, ISBN 1-56000-677-3.
  7. Mayhew, Leon H. The New Public: Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence, (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies), Cambridge University Press, September 28, 1997, ISBN 0-521-48493-6.
  8. Sennett, Richard
    Richard Sennett

    Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, the Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology at MIT and Professor of the Humanities at New York University....
    . The Fall of Public Man W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition, June 1992, ISBN 0-393-30879-0.


See also

  • Public-access television
    Public-access television

    Public access television in the United States is a form of community television, similar to Canada's community channel s, Australia's Community television in Australia and other models of media with content created by private citizens....
  • Public administration
    Public administration

    Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government public policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society and social justice is the ultimate goal of the field....
  • Public affairs
    Public affairs

    Public affairs may refer to:*Public policy*Policy studies*Public administration*Public affairs *Public affairs *PublicAffairs, a USA publishing company...
  • Public art
    Public art

    |}The term public art properly refers to works of art in any Media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the public domain, usually outside and accessible to all....
  • Public broadcasting
    Public broadcasting

    Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic mass media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public....
  • Public choice theory
    Public choice theory

    Public choice in economic theory is the use of modern economic tools to study problems that are traditionally in the province of political science....
  • Public company
    Public company

    A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered Security for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, but also may include companies whose stock is traded Over-the-counter via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services such as the OTCBB and the Pink Sheets....
  • Public debate
    Public debate

    Public debate is a formal style of debate. Two teams of two compete through six rounds of argument, giving persuasive speeches on a particular topic....
  • Public defender
    Public defender

    A public defender is a lawyer who works full time representing criminal defendants, or mental health clients that are not criminals but that are involuntarily held who cannot afford to hire an attorney....
  • Public domain
    Public domain

    File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
  • Public editor
    Public Editor

    The job of the public editor is to supervise the implementation of proper journalism ethics at a newspaper, and to identify and examine critical errors or omissions, and to act as a liaison to the public....
  • Public figure
    Public figure

    Public figure is a law term applied in the context of defamation actions as well as invasion of privacy. A public figure cannot base a lawsuit on incorrect harmful statements unless there is proof that the writer or publisher acted with malice ....
  • Public finance
    Public finance

    Public finance is a field of economics concerned with paying for collective or governmental activities, and with the administration and design of those activities....
  • Public good
    Public good

    In economics, a public good is a Good that is rivalry ed and excludability. This means, respectively, that consumption of the good by one individual does not reduce availability of the good for consumption by others; and that no one can be effectively excluded from using the good....
  • Public health
    Public health

    Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." It is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis....
  • Public house
    Public house

    A public house, the formal name for a pub in Britain, is a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic beverage for consumption on or off the premises in countries and regions of United Kingdom influence....
  • Public inquiry
    Public inquiry

    A Public inquiry is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government. A public inquiry differs from a Royal Commission in that a public inquiry accepts evidence and conducts its hearings in a more public forum and focuses on a more specific occurrence....
  • Public interest
    Public interest

    The public interest refers to the "common well-being" or "general welfare." The public interest is central to policy debates, politics, democracy and the nature of government itself....
  • Public Ivy
    Public Ivy

    Public Ivy is a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book Public Ivys: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities to refer to universities which "provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price." Public Ivies are considered, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, t...
  • Public-key cryptography
    Public-key cryptography

    Public-key cryptography is a method for secret communication between two parties without requiring an initial key exchange of secret key. It can also be used to create digital signature....
  • Public law
    Public law

    Public law is a theory of law governing the relationship between individuals and the state. Under this theory, Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are sub-divisions of public law....
  • Public lecture
    Public lecture

    A public lecture is one means employed for educating the public in the sciences and medicine. The Royal Institution has a long history of public lectures and demonstrations given by prominent experts in the field....
  • Public library
    Public library

    A public library is a library which is accessible by the public and is generally funded from public sources and may be operated by Civil services....
  • Public nudity
    Public nudity

    Public nudity or nude in public refers to nudity not in an entirely private context. It refers to a person appearing nude in a public place or to be seen from a public place....
  • Public opinion
    Public opinion

    Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population. The principle approaches to the study of public opinion may be divided into 4 categories:...
  • Public ownership
    Public ownership

    Public ownership refers to government ownership of any asset, industry, or corporation at any level, national government, regional government or local government ; or, it may refer to common non-state ownership....
  • Public park
  • Public policy
    Public policy (law)

    Public policy is the body of principles that underpin the operation of legal systems in each state . This addresses the social, moral and economic values that tie a society together: values that vary in different cultures and change over time....
  • Public relations
    Public relations

    Public relations is the practice of managing the flow of information between an organization and its publics. Public relations - often referred to as PR - gains an organization or individual exposure to their audiences using topics of public interest and news items that do not require direct payment....
  • Public road
  • Public safety
    Public Safety

    Public safety involves the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety of the Public from significant danger, Injury, or Property damage, such as crimes or disasters ....
  • Public school
    Public school

    The term public school has two distinct meanings depending on the location of usage:* in the United States, Australia and Canada: A school funded from tax revenue and most commonly administered to some degree by government or local government agencies....
  • Public sector
    Public sector

    The public sector is the part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal....
  • Public services
    Public services

    Public services is a term usually used to mean Service s provided by government to its citizens, either directly or by financing private provision of services....
  • Public space
    Public space

    A public space refers to an area or place that is open and accessible to all citizens, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socioeconomics....
  • Public speaking
    Public speaking

    Public speaking is the process of Speech communication to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners....
  • Public sphere
    Public sphere

    The public sphere is an area in social life where people can get together and freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action....
  • Public transport
    Public transport

    Public transport comprises passenger transportation services which are available for use by the general public, as opposed to modes for private use such as automobiles or vehicles for hire....
  • Public university
    Public university

    A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private university....
  • Public utility
    Public utility

    A public utility is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public services . Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies....