This paper is adapted from the presidential address delivered at the 1985 national
conference of ASPA. President Naomi Lynn invites ASPA members to join in a celebration …

Two significant anniversaries for Americans occur in 1987: the bicentennial of the US
Constitution and the centennial of the founding of the administrative state. Both hold very …

In this article, the author says that during the summer of 1975, Dwight A. Ink, Conference
chairman for American Society for Public Administration's National Bicentennial Conference …

In 1987 Americans were treated to a remarkably entertaining and enlightening bicentennial
celebration of the US Constitution. On TV we watched serious shows like Public …

As the end of this millennium approaches, American public administration has begun a
reexamination of its history. This article examines American public administration's …

Imagine a scholar of literature attempting to develop a broad theoretical understanding of
modern prose without consulting Shakespeare, or a physicist developing a new theory …

want to bring out a few points that are significant for the Page 1 For the Fiftieth Anniversary of
the Public Administration Review, it is useful to link the history of American public administration …

When we reflect on public administration since 1940, we see that many important
contributions to the intellectual history of the field have appeared in the pages of PAR. The …

The genesis of this book comes on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). The benchmark of a discipline is that it …

Designed to serve as a basic text for an introductory course in Public Administration, this
innovative work provides students with an understanding of the basic management functions …