ABSTRACT
The protagonists in the development administration movement of the 1960s were very much brought together in one particular organization: the Comparative Administration Group of the American Society of Public Administration. Some of the most interesting covered specific areas of concern: rural development, educational administration, particular geographical areas or the problems of the military. Quite apart from ideology, plan, programmes, institutions, careers and so forth, development administration has to mean successful service relationships with clients and recipients in exceptional and difficult circumstances. The difficulties include the perceived significance of the service and its felt lack of continuity. Development administration itself presents one sort of a checklist on the problems: broadly, what administrative behaviour for development in those sorts of conditions would be like. The problem for development administration is to avoid certain traps and to take certain things into account.
