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Article: Why public administration?
- Article from:
- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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Editor's Note:
At the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration held in Philadelphia in July 1997, Herbert A. Simon presented the second annual Donald C. Stone Lecture. Simon is a Nobel prize winner as well as a Dwight Waldo Award winner. His Donald C. Stone Lecture is printed here with the gracious approval of the American Society for Public Administration and of Irene Rubin, Editor-in-Chief of the Public Administration Review. We are, of course, especially grateful to Professor Simon for permission to print his lecture.
- HGF
I would like to preface my remarks with a few words about Donald Stone, whose career is highly ...