Frank Johnson Goodnow citations

“The conventional model for explaining the uniqueness of American democracy is its division between executive, legislative, and judicial functions. It was the great contribution of Frank J. Goodnow to codify a less obvious, but no less profound element: the distinction between politics and policies, principles and operations. He showed how the United States went beyond a nation based on government by gentlemen and then one based on the spoils system brought about by the Jacksonian revolt against the Eastern Establishment, into a government that separated political officials from civil administrators.
Goodnow contends that the civil service reformers persuasively argued that the separation of administration from politics, far from destroying the democratic links with the people, actually served to enhance democracy. While John Rohr, in his outstanding new introduction carefully notes loopholes in the theoretical scaffold of Goodnow's argument, he is also careful to express his appreciation of the pragmatic ground for this new sense of government as needing a partnership of the elected and the appointed.
Goodnow was profoundly influenced by European currents, especially the Hegelian. As a result, the work aims at a political philosophy meant to move considerably beyond the purely pragmatic needs of government. For it was the relationships, the need for national unity in a country that was devised to account for and accommodate pluralism and diversity, that attracted Goodnow's legal background and normative impulses alike. That issues of legitimacy and power distribution were never entirely resolved by Goodnow does not alter the fact that this is perhaps the most important work, along with that of James Bryce, to emerge from this formative period to connect processes of governance with systems of democracy.”

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Frank Johnson Goodnow

Abstract, 2009 edition:
Politics and Administration (1900)

“What parts of this function of administration should be subjected to the control of the function of politics?”

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Frank Johnson Goodnow

Source: Politics and Administration (1900), p. 22

“The use of the word "administration," is unfortunately somewhat misleading, for the word when accompanied by the definite article is also used to indicate… popularly the most important executive or administrative authorities.”

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Frank Johnson Goodnow

Frank Johnson Goodnow, cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 44

“The state attains its ends as well through liberty as through government, as well through entrusting the care of matters of public interest to individuals as through the maintenance of public governmental services for their management.”

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Frank J. Goodnow: Municipal Home Rule. New York: Columbia University Press; 1906, p. 37

Frank Johnson Goodnow: Citations en anglais

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