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This 14 page paper begins with an explanation of what public administration is and then provides a history public administration in America beginning with Woodrow Wilson's article, "The Study of Administration," published in 1887. Wilson wanted to make a clear distinction between administration and politics and had a number of followers. This essay traces the evolution of public administration from that time to the present, including the conflicts and controversies. The writer then discuses the evolution of three specializations in the field: federalism and intergovernmental relations; civil servants and human resource management; and public budgeting and finance. This essay concludes with possible trends in some areas of public administration. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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and local enterprise that affects the life of every American every day (2001). The American government uses collected taxes to provide social welfare programs but the government also helps Americans
communicate with each other, obtain an education, finance our homes, obtain health care and they protect all of us from enemies through a federally-funded security bureaucracy (Gordon and Miakovich, 2001).
The many programs supported by the government have been enacted and implemented over many years. So, how did the arena of public administration come to be? The publication of Woodrow
Wilsons, "The Study of Administration" in 1887 has been credited with being the beginning of the study of public administration in America (Kettl, 2000). This was a time in history
known as the Progressive era and Wilsons text was intended to establish the study of public administration as a field in itself (Kettl, 2000). To reinforce this premise, Wilson
drew a very clear line between politics and administration (Kettl, 2000). This line of demarcation has been a point of controversy since Wilson wrote his article (Kettl, 2000). Many question
whether it is even possible to separate the two and if it is possible, is it desirable (Kettl, 2000). Still, the American Political Science Association was established in 1900 with
Frank J. Goodnow as the first president of the organization, a man who championed Wilsons cause (Kettl, 2000). Goodnow firmly believed that public administration was the much-needed link between the
study of politics, which tends to be abstract, and the process of improving how that political system worked (Kettl, 2000). This group thrived with five of the first eleven presidents
coming from the field and practice of public administration; it was these people who played the most important roles in framing this new discipline called public administration (Kettl, 2000). Wilson,
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