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The Public Administration of Politics, or What Political Science Could Learn from Public Administration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2007

Kenneth J. Meier
Kenneth J. Meier
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University and Cardiff University
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The purpose of the John Gaus Award and Lectureship is to recognize “scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.” That tradition has a long and honorable history. Many of the presidents of the American Political Science Association were scholars of public administration (Frank J. Goodnow, Woodrow Wilson, W. W. Willoughby, Leonard White, Luther Gulick, Pendleton Herring, Emmette S. Redford, Carl J. Friedrich, James Q. Wilson, and Matthew Holden, Jr.) and several others made contributions to the literature (V. O. Key, Jr., Charles S. Hyneman, Robert A. Dahl, Aaron Wildavsky, and Elinor Ostrom). Yet a visitor from another planet studying political science and public administration might conclude that these tribes have evolved into two distinct species.Prepared for presentation as the John Gaus Distinguished Lecture, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1, 2006, Philadelphia. I would like to thank Paul Brace, George Krause, Alisa Hicklin, Larry O'Toole, Jim Rogers, and Michael Thies for their assistance.

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THE 2006 JOHN GAUS LECTURE
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 3 - 9
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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