The Fading Legacy of Woodrow Wilson

Martin, Daniel W.

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“…Price (1941), for example, examined Robert Child and his efforts to promote the councilmanager plan that is the structural equivalent of the politics-administration conceptual distinction. Martin (1988) argued that Wilson's definition of the dichotomy was a result of mistranslation, which Wilson noticed and corrected later, while Svara (1998) and Lynn (2001) focused on the founders' writings and argued that they meant something totally different from what many public administration scholars presently take for granted regarding the meaning of the politics-administration dichotomy. Roberts (1994) explained the development of the dichotomy with particular emphasis on Rockefeller philanthropies and the use of the dichotomy as a "rhetorical strategy" intended to help institutional development of public administration in its formative years.…”

Section: Historical Approach: the Distant Past As A Tool For Understamentioning

confidence: 96%

Politics and Administration

Demir

2009

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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The question of how public administration fits into the governance process of a democratic society has been of great concern to scholars and practitioners since the emergence of public administration as an academic field of study in the late 1880s. The politics-administration relationship is considered of pivotal importance, as the issue bears important implications for both the disciplinary identity (and autonomy) and the institutional development of public administration. Despite a voluminous literature on the subject, the question remains unanswered. Scholarly inquiry to this date identifies two major positions, one separation and the other its opposite, political. Unlike prior conceptualizations, this article distills the literature into three major schools of thought as separation, political, and interaction. The article then examines the state of the research that has followed three strands as historical, conceptual, and empirical. The author makes an overall evaluation of the past research and lays out a different approach in studying this important question.

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Section: Historical Approach: the Distant Past As A Tool For Understamentioning

confidence: 96%

Politics and Administration

Demir

2009

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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“…After all, Martin (1988) states in his article "The Fading Legacy of Woodrow Wilson" that most of the views concerning the emergence of public administration, in particular politics-administration dichotomy, attributed to Wilson are approaches put forth earlier in Europe. It will be deemed necessary to reevaluate the politics-administration dichotomy, which is already known and dealt with in European public administration studies, as to its importance for and the place in the discipline, for Wilson has merely quoted it.…”

Section: Journal Of Public Administration and Governancementioning

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“…Martin (1988) highlights that Wilson's politics -administration dichotomy that hinges on such statements as "administration is out of the scope of politics and administrative issues are distinct from the political ones" is different in Europe. In Blutschli and older French literature, the principle of "administrators should be selected for their political and moral character" was valid.…”

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“…He contends that even Bluntschli himself did not establish as strict and extreme politics-administration dichotomy as Wilson did. Martin (1988) maintains that Wilson accepted his mistake caused by mistranslating Bluntschli and other German sources three years after his 1887 article and the fact that "public administration questions are basically political questions" and that public administration was "a subject of civil law" in 1890.…”

Section: Accusation Of a Wrong Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The German and Bluntschli Influence on the Establishment of Public Administration

Sakli

2013

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The emergence of the discipline of public administration had long been attributed to Wilson. Martin (1987 and 1988) manifested that the discipline originated in France and consequently passed to USA. However, Wilson’s 1887 article “The Study of Administration” points to the fact that he based the administration-politics dichotomy on German Bluntschli. This showed that it was essential to analyze the German influence on and, in particular, Bluntschli’s contribution to the birth of the discipline of public administration. The present study focuses on Seckendorf, Wolff, Hegel and Stein’s theoretical contributions to the emergence of public administration in Europe and intends to investigate each of them with a particular emphasis on Bluntschli’s influence. It has appeared that the politics-administration dichotomy, which had a great effect on Wilson, was prevalent in the works of Bluntschli, in which the term primary is used for politics to refer to the former and secondary for administration to refer to the latter. Although politics administration difference was expressed in the French literature of public administration, it was concluded that the German effect was significant in the emergence of public administration and its spread to USA.

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“…The purpose of such models was to keep politics and administration as isolated as possible, to shield administration from corrupting political influences, and to bestow elected officials their policymaking prerogative. As Martin (1988) notes, dichotomy meant isolating the two sides, as if each function works best as an independent variable, capable of being improved in isolation without endangering or interfering with the other side (p. 632). A vast amount of research, however, not only found the politics-administration dichotomy deficient in both the theory and practice of public administration, but also revealed serious normative limitations of the dichotomy concept (e.g., Demir & Nyhan, 2008).…”

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Interaction Quality in Political-Administrative Relations in the United States: Testing a Multi-Dimensional Model

Demir

Nank

2012

International Journal of Public Administration

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Complementarity has become the new label to characterize the relations between elected officials and professional public administrators. In response to increasingly complex and challenging problems that face local government officials today, public administration scholars have explored how to improve the efficacy of interactions between elected and appointed officials. To do so, scholars have proposed that characteristics of quality interactions include mutual respect, understanding, communication, and partnership between the two parties. Inadequate empirical research, however, exists to help us understand what interaction quality means. This study fills an important gap in the literature by proposing and testing a multi-dimensional model to explain interaction quality. This study utilizes survey data collected from a nationwide sample of city managers in the United States and employs structural equation modeling.

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The Fading Legacy of Woodrow Wilson

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