ABSTRACT
In 1957 the separation of administration from politics had seemed the main point; by 1962 the question was what administrative study could do for a political education when the new material was taken into account. In particular, this demanded a reconsideration of the nature of administration, of the separation of politics and administration and of the collapse of the dichotomy. Public service reform meant the separation of administration from politics, at least in the appointment of administrators; it meant also the separation of the administrator from other types of public servant. Administration was to politics as the counting house was to society. The New Deal brought into American public office many intellectuals who had been brought up in the way of assuming that administration, once the election was over, could be conducted independently of politics. The very logic of the distinction between politics and administration began to be questioned.
