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Public Administration, 1927

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Leonard D. White*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

Extract

The following pages represent an experiment. They are devoted to an initial attempt to summarize the most important events in the field of public administration in the United States for a calendar year. A series of such summaries, if they could be made reasonably complete, would presumably be of substantial value, at least to the academic world; the present survey, incomplete and unsatisfactory from many points of view, may at least serve as a point of departure for later enlargements and improvements. I am indebted to many correspondents for assistance in gathering the materials on which it is based; and I acknowledge my gratitude to them, without implicating them in the result.

Administrative Reorganization. Although the movement for reorganization of public administration has slowed down, significant steps were taken in 1927. Two large-scale state reorganizations were effected, in California and Virginia, the latter following a careful survey by the National Institute of Public Administration.

In California the bulk of the state work is consolidated in nine departments, the directors of which comprise the governor's council. This is an interesting legal reconstruction of the governor's council inherited from the eighteenth century in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. The department of finance (Chap. 251) is given general powers of supervision over all matters concerning financial and business policies of the state, including specifically authority to audit, to visit and inspect institutions, and with the governor to authorize expenditures in excess of appropriations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1928

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References

1 Organization and Management of the State Government of Virginia (Richmond, 1927)Google Scholar; County Government in Virginia (Richmond, 1928).Google Scholar

2 Session Laws of California, 1927, Ch. 105.

3 Session Laws of Virginia, 1927, Ch. 33.

4 Session Laws of Pennsylvania, 1927, p. 207.

5 Session Laws of Connecticut, 1927, Ch. 297.

6 Session Laws of Alabama, 1927, p. 348.

7 Session Laws of Kansas, 1927, Ch. 255.

8 Session Laws of Iowa, 1927, Ch. 102.

9 Session Laws of Ohio, 1927, p. 430.

10 Session Laws of California, 1927, Ch. 431.

11 Cf. Bulletin No. 70 of the Citizens' Association of Chicago.

12 Session Laws of Minnesota, 1927, Ch. 382.

13 Session Laws of New Hampshire, 1927, Ch. 201.

14 Merrill, Maud A., “The Intelligence of Policemen,” Journal of Personnel Research, vol. 6, p. 511.Google Scholar

15 Missouri Association for Criminal Justice, The Missouri Crime Survey (Macmillan, 1926)Google Scholar.

16 Session Laws of California, 1927, Ch. 407.

17 Session Laws of Indiana, 1927, Ch. 216.

18 Session Laws of Minnesota, 1927, Ch. 224.

19 National Municipal Review, Jan., 1927, supplement.

20 Session Laws of Ohio, 1927, p. 391.

21 See pp. 428–433 below.

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