ABSTRACT
One of the most obvious features of recent writing on public administration is its large volume and wide scope, together with an increasing tendency to specialized, factual or "empirical" studies. The future of administrative theory is dependent, of course, upon what happens in the world at large, and particularly what happens in and to the United States. In addition to economic, political, and social events that will influence the future of administrative thought, there are a number of movements and personalities that at present are impinging on administrative thinking and may give it content and direction in the future. The problem of the philosophy that our Administrators entertain is intimately related, in turn, to that of the adequacy of "theory of organization". The main tenets of the public administration movement emerged in the decades preceding 1914; they crystallized into a general political theory in the Progressive years.
