Public Administration

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    Frederick Taylor: Scientific Management

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    Woodrow Wilson

    Father of Public Administration
    Science of administration
    Separate politics from administration
    No difference between public or private administration.
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    Frank J. Goodnow

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    Max Weber

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    Mary Parker Follett

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    Elton Mayo

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    Chester Barnard

  • Woodrow Wilson, "The Study of Administration"

    Administration should be separated from politics and policy. Public administration should be concerned solely with the "detailed and systematic execution of public law."
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    Luther Gulick: The Integrated Executive

  • Frank J. Goodnow, "Politics and Administration"

    Beginning of Politics/Administration Dichotomy (paradigm 1)
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    Paradigm 1: The Politics/Administration Dichotomy

    Goodnow writes book, "Politics and Administration," elected politicians and public administrators do different things. Public administrators bring efficiency to the execution of policies made by elected politicians.

  • Frederick Taylor, "The Principles of Scientific Management"

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    Dwight Waldo

  • Henri Fayol "General and Industrial Management "

    The first complete theory of management
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    Herbert Simon

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    Charles Lindblom

  • Max Weber, "Bureaucracy"

    Translated from German to English and published posthumously (Weber died in 1920). Became the deeply believed rationale of the profession. All organizations, no matter how small, possess some element of hierarchical authority and accountability.

  • Leonard White "Introduction to the Study of Public Administration"

    First text in public administration
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    Paradigm 2: Principles of Public Administration

    W.F. Willoughby book, "Principles of Public Administration:" Public administrators would be effective if they learned and applied scientific principles of administration. The principles work in any administrative setting without exception, they can be applied anywhere.

  • Gulick and Urwick, "Papers on the Science of Administration"

    Report to FDR's Committee on Administrative Science. Rejects PA dichotomy. Principles can be applied in any situation. Integrated Executive. POSDCORB.

  • Chester Barnard, "Functions of the Executive"

    Influenced Simon, who wrote Administrative Behavior in 1947
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    The Challenge

    1. politics and administration cannot be separated
    2. principles of administration are not absolute. There is no such thing as a principle of administration.

  • Herbert Simon, "The Proverbs of Administration"

    Critics of previous work in PA, specifically Gulick's principles as contradictory "proverbs." Proposes a fact-value dichotomy.

  • Herbert Simon, "Administrative Behavior"

    For "almost every principle one can find an equally plausible and acceptable contradictory principle." Won Nobel Prize in 1978

  • Dwight Waldo, "The Administrative State"

    Book title nod to government's growing size; helped justify need for theory of bureaucratic politics; criticized both classical and behavioral approaches to PA; rejected PA and fact/value dichotomy
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    Paradigm 3: The Identity Crisis/Public Administration as Political Science

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    Paradigm 4: Public Administration as Management

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    The Forces of Separatism

  • NASPAA (National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration) founded

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    Paradigm 5: Public Administration as Public Administration

    PA successful break from political science and management; autonomous field of study/practice; PA continuum (not dichotomy) as "constellations of logic."
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    Paradigm 6: Governance

    Making a mesh of things (foretold by Paul Appleby in 1949 essay)
    Breaking out of silos Moving away from government (control over citizens and the delivery of public benefits by institutions of the state) and are moving toward governance (configurations of laws, policies, organizations, institutions, cooperative arrangements, and agreements that control citizens and delivery public benefits); Government is institutional; Governance is institutional AND NETWORKED

  • John Nalbandian, "Reflections of a "Pracademic" on the Logic of Politics and Administration"

    PA and politics exist together on the same continuum, but as separate and distinct "constellations of logic"