Leonard D. White: Modernity

Leonard D. White was American historian. Explore interesting quotes on modernity.
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“The role of administration in the modern state is profoundly affected by the general political and cultural environment of the age.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 7, as cited in: Moynihan (2009)

“[ Public administration is merely] a special case of the larger category, administration, a process which is common to all organized human effort and which is highly developed in modern corporate business, in the church, in the Red Cross, in education, and in international bodies, public and private.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 3-4 (1939 edition); as cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 8

“The book rest upon tour assumptions. It assumes that administration is a - single process, substantially uniform in its essential characteristics whether observed and therefore avoids the study of municipal administration, state administration, or federal administration as such. It is assumed that the study of administration should start from the base of management rather than the foundation of law, and is therefore more absorbed in the affairs of the American Management Association than in the decisions of the courts. It assumes that administration is still primarily an art but attaches importance to the significant tendency to transform it into a science. It assumes that administration has become, and will continue to be, the hart of the problem of modern government.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. ix

“Few of the major tasks of modern administration can be carried out without the constant support of the technician.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 14, as cited in: Moynihan (2009)