Nineteen seventy-six marks not only the nation's 200th birthday, but two interesting birthdays
for public administration. In a few months it will be the 90th anniversary of the appearance of …

Leonard D. White, often regarded as the “father of the study of public administration in the
United States,” published the first edition of his perennial book, Introduction to the Study of …

W HEN the first textbooks in public ad-ministration appeared in the United States a little
more than thirty years ago (Leonard D. White's Introduction to the Study of Public …

It is a commonplace now that public administration is in a state of prolonged and agonizing
crisis. The theoreticians warn that the field's fundamental and traditional principles (best …

That public adminstration-both the discipline and the profession-is in the midst of
considerable ferment is not surprising. It would be sur-prising if it were otherwise, for there is …

Public administration has developed as an intellectual and professional field through a
succession of six paradigms—that is, how the field has' seen itself'in the past and present …

The decade of the 1970s opened with a ray of renewed hope for public administration. A
young generation of public administration professors was proclaiming a better day for the …

I Only a person of weak mind and rash temperament would accept this assignment. The
three controlling words in the title," trends,"" theory," and" administration," are ambiguous …

Public administration has rather studiously avoided serious consideration of its ties to public
policy throughout most of this century. The politics/administration dichotomy leaves a lasting …

THE study of public administration has ex-panded so rapidly during the last decade or two
that one readily forgets the extreme youth of this discipline. Its growth is a healthy one, for its …