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- Title
The Dynamics of Public Administration Today as Guidelines for the Future.
- Authors
Gulick, Luther
- Abstract
The article focuses on the dynamics of public administration. Some fundamentals about human beings have been sketched because, after all, governments are constituted of human beings, are run by human beings, and have as their main job helping, controlling, and serving human beings. Humans are compelled to live together in groups, small and large. In other words, genes make group living inevitable, but they do not tell us how that is to be accomplished. The author identifies four major drives affecting human relations with government. These are self-centered life forces, the need to live and work with groups of other people, the drive for reproduction and its sublimation in other directions. In the field of public administration, a new approach to the fundamental organization of the state, introducing greater decentralization in place of the present centralized, hierarchical, military structures is needed. In addition, the steps which lead to maximum productivity in any group-work situation is noted. Moreover, in the future the voters should be on guard against candidates who run against the civil service in the McCarthy pattern.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration; CIVIL service; HUMAN beings; INTERPERSONAL relations; DECENTRALIZATION in government; GOVERNMENT agencies
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1983, Vol 43, Issue 3, p193
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/976327