ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the key-developments of public administration, which is rapidly permeating the whole of world society, must be confined to four contrasting spheres, namely to Anglo-Saxon, Colonial, Russian and International administration. By the nineteenth century, with the Industrial Revolution in full swing in Britain and overflowing rapidly into Europe and North America, specialization through the division of labour was even invading and gaining momentum inside the public offices. At the Treasury Trevelyan’s energies were soon directed towards the reform of the public personnel system, which his experience convinced him was quite inadequate to the tasks confronting it. By its nature, under both the League and the United Nations, international public administration has been concurrent administration within the national field rather than a new level of administration servicing a supranational government of a worldwide category. Such administration has remained substantially subject to the national centres of power.
