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Scientific Research and State Government

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

L. D. White
L. D. White
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University of Chicago
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The operation of the newly devised systems of centralized control in state government has naturally raised many questions of the relative duties and responsibilities of department and bureau officials on the one hand and of the supervising and controlling authorities on the other. The process of change from an established method of conducting public business to another, based on different principles and requiring new obligations on the part of officers expending money is bound to be a period of readjustment accompanied by a certain amount of friction. This will be the more certain as the new system differs more widely from the old and restricts more completely the freedom of action formerly reserved to heads of the various state services.

The establishment of the state board of public affairs in Wisconsin in 1911, the enactment of the Civil Code in Illinois in 1917, the enactment of the Ohio Civil Code in 1921, and the legislation of Massachusetts culminating in the creation of the board of administration and finance, all made wide departures from the system of administration hitherto in operation. The essential characteristic introduced in each case was the imposition of an agency of review, of supervision, and in many respects of control upon officers and commissions who had hitherto conducted the work of their respective offices for the most part subject only to the necessity of securing approval of their expenditures by the auditor or controller.

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Research Article
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American Political Science Review , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1925 , pp. 38 - 50
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1925

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References

1 This article is a summary of a monograph prepared by the writer for the National Research Council entitled “An Evaluation of Systems of Central Financial Control of Scientific Research in State Governments,” to be published in the Bulletin Series of the National Research Council.

2 Session Laws 1905, p. 62.

3 Session Laws 1917, p. 2.

4 See Willoughby, , Willoughby, , and Lindsay, , Financial Administration of Great Britain, ch. 8.Google Scholar

5 But not the University of Illinois, which is substantially free from these elements of control.

6 See Bulletin of the National Research Council, No. 29, Volume V, pt, 4.

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