ABSTRACT
From: Refounding Public Administration. 1990. Sage. Nearly a century has passed since the appearance of Woodrow Wilson’s
essay “The Study of Public Administration.” Some of what he wrote seems to have a disturbingly prophetic quality. For example:
The weightier debates of constitutional principle are even yet by no means concluded; but they are no longer of more immediate practical moment than questions of administration. It is getting harder to run a constitution than to frame one.2
