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“Any system of public administration inevitably reflects its environment.”

Leonard D. White

Leonard D. White (1932, 22), as cited in: Donald P. Moynihan. " Our Usable Past: A Historical Contextual Approach to Administrative Values https://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/images/publications/facstaff/moynihan/PAR69(5)UsablePast.pdf." Public Administration Review 69.5 (2009): 813-822.

“Whenever we [public officials] make a mistake, some-one jumps on us for it, but whenever we do something well nobody pays any attention to us. We never get any recognition except when we get ‘bawled out’.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 243-244

“[ 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

Education , Business , Effort

“Defined in broadest terms, public administration consists of all those operations having for their purpose the fulfillment or enforcement of public policy. This definition covers a multitude of particular operations in many fields — the delivery of a letter, the sale of public land, the negotiation of a treaty, the award of compensation to an injured workman, the quarantine of a sick child, the removal of litter from a park, manufacturing plutonium, and licensing the use of atomic energy. It includes military as well as civil affairs, much of the work of courts, and all the special fields of government activity— police, education, health, construction of public works, conservation, social security, and many others.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 1

Health , Education

“The objective of public administration is the most efficient utilization of the resources at the disposal of officials and employees.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 2

“Public administration is the management of men and materials in the accomplishment of the purposes of the state.”

Leonard D. White

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 5

Men

“John M. Gaus, Leonard Dupee White, and Marshall E. Dimock. Frontiers of public administration.”

Leonard D. White

1936