ABSTRACT
Dominant public administration doctrine strongly tends to support the political objectives of the political party in power and broad-based political movements such as civil service reform in the late nineteenth century and progressivism in the early twentieth. Identify trends and concerns that are likely to affect the future of public administration in the United States. Intellectually, public administration has competing multiple paradigms and conceptual frameworks, though our competing perspectives of management, politics/policy, and law approach used throughout this book may be predominant. As sensible as that may be, it contributed to weakening two concepts that were central to traditional management. As reliance on contractors and those engaged in collaborative government arrangements continues to play a large part in public administration, as seems certain, the demands for personal responsibility are likely to increase and reach private individuals engaged in government work and collaborative public service.
