Ideals of public administration and good government in the United States are examined from
the late-19th to mid-20th centuries in order to understand the processes by which such …

Expertise in economics, demographics, statistics, sociology, and other social sciences is
assumed to be necessary for modern governance. In the mid-nineteenth century, the attempt …

Purpose–Histories of American public administration during the Progressive era (1890‐
1920) tend to highlight the positive contributions of its major founders, skimming lightly over …

The collapse of major empires in the twentieth century poses a challenge. Can human
civilizations maintain themselves and achieve increasing degrees of complementarity …

A guide through history for those perplexed about the fate of democracy and the government
of diverse societies. In war and in peace, amid disruptive change and during reconstruction …

Public administration literature lacks richness and context regarding the moral history of the
founding of the field in the early 1900s. As a result, current calls for" recapturing the soul" of …

Most administrative theory addresses how to make practice effective by means of abstract
concepts: laws, regulations, and theories. Recent history is littered with examples of …

An ordinary citizen of an ordinary modem democracy fortunate enough to undertake a
journey backwards in time is likely to find meaningful similarities between public …

Traditions go a long way in moulding institutions and serving as a guide to public service
reform.(Stillman II 2003: 19-40). Tradition underpins our values systems, but it is mostly …

A central feature of the intellectual development of public administration is an ongoing
debate about values. Some scholars advocate for one value to dominate over others, but …