Little has been done to actively support research on" the study of administration" since
Woodrow Wilson wrote his famous article by that title nearly 100 years ago. This book offers …

The study of public administration in the United States is large in terms of the number of
academic programmes, the range of journal publications, and the number of scholars. Its …

This paper extends the recent work of James Perry and Kenneth Kraemer by examining
research in public administration from 1940 through 1984 as reflected in articles published …

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 …

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 …

What's in a name? Sometimes a good deal. Tom Hammond organized the panels on" Public
Administration" for the 1988 meetings of APSA. As he later told me, he decided that this …

T IS one of the marks of a profession that its members consciously work toward the
advancement of knowledge in their field. Where the profession is organized, one of the …

This volume is an ideal reference source for persons investigating specific areas within the
diverse field of public affairs and administration. Public Administration includes two …

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 …

If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.
Confining ourselves to practice, we may lose sight of basic principles, and when these have …