ABSTRACT
Social, economic and political changes were, by the twentieth century, proceeding at such a rate that it was becoming more and more difficult for the practical man to bring about quickly enough essential modifications in existing institutions or to invent brand new institutions to cope with the emerging situation. The shape and pattern of public administration has largely been determined by the extent and capacity of the community nerve-networks. Since Public Administration is the servant of government, any assessment of its form and achievement must depend upon the political ‘continuum’ within which it works. The public corporation has been adopted widely by newly independent countries for the development of the productive sector. In the more democratic systems of Ancient Greece and Republican Rome officials, or magistrates, holding office usually for short terms, were often publicly investigated beforehand and their performance subjected to scrutiny at the close of their term of office.
