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- Father of Public Administration.
- An outstanding professor, scholar, educationist, historian, reformer and a statesman.
- Born in December 28, 1856 in Virginia, USA.
- Professor of Political Science (1886-1902)
- President of Princeton University (1902-1910)
- Elected governor of New Jersey in 1913
- 28th President of USA (1913-1921)
- Published his first book “Congressional Government” when he was a graduation student
- His seminal essay was published in the Political Science Quarterly in 1887 named “The study of Administration”.
- The purpose of administrative study is to discover what government can properly and successfully do and how these things can be done with the utmost possible efficiency and the least possible cost.
- He said, “Administration is the most obvious part of the Government; it is the government in action, it is the executive, the operative and the most visible side of the government”.
- According to Wilson, The latest fruit of the study of politics is the science of administration. He said that we are having now what we never had before, a science of administration.
- He observed: “It is more difficult to run a constitution than to frame one”.
- Public Administration is a detailed and systematic execution of law. Every application of general law is an act of administration.
- He said that politics is the special province of a statesman and administration that of the technical official. Administrative questions are not political questions.
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