ABSTRACT
Administrative reform's availability as an issue and its progressive connotations were conditioned by a second factor. The role of the external push in generating the region's administrative reform movements and accounting for many of the similarities in content and evolution is extremely important. The declining interest springs in part from dissatisfaction with the results of the earlier missions and a loss of faith in the efficacy of generalized administrative reform projects. Several American universities have been important in the respect, both as sites for the recruitment of advisors and the training of foreign students. The participation of many of the same advisors encouraged similarities in outlook both within and between programs established in the various Latin American nations. Regionalization takes its most concrete and institutional form with the foundation of an United Nations sponsored Latin American Center for Development Administration.
