Administration (government)
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The term administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction.
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[edit] United States
In United States usage, the term refers to the executive branch under a specific president (or sometimes governor, mayor, or other local executive), for example: the "George W. Bush administration." It can also mean an executive branch agency headed by an administrator: these agencies tend to have a regulatory function as well as an administrative function. On occasion, people in the U.S. will use the term to refer to the time a given person was president, e.g. "they have been married since the Jimmy Carter administration."
[edit] Europe
Usage in Europe varies by country, but most typically the term refers to the local government, or the hierarchy of national and local government, that applies to a town or district. More specifically, it may refer to public administration, the business of administering public policy as determined by government.
For the US sense of the word, most (English-speaking) countries use the analogous term government, as in the "Tony Blair government". (This is also true of the non-European members of the Commonwealth of Nations).