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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Public administration did not fare well during the last half of the twentieth century. Whereas
during the first hall Progressive Era machine politics, depression, and world war seemed to …

As James Bryce traveled through the United States in the 1880s he noted that the question"
What do you think of our institutions?" was" addressed to the European traveler in the United …

This volume represents the collaborative effort of a group of economists, historians,
sociologists, and political scientists, in conjunction with the National Bureau of Economic …

Institutions now stand at the heart of much theorizing and explanation in the social sciences.
Analysts working from a variety of perspectives have produced compelling work …

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 …