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By John Merriman Gaus
“In this vintage, Gaus writes perceptively of the ‘ecology’ of public management and its dating to the increase of the executive nation. He recounts how crises and alterations in humans, position, actual expertise, social expertise, and philosophy within the first half the 20 th century led voters many times to appear to executive for reduction. Politicians, in flip, created or increased the powers of public agencies.” —Journal of administration heritage
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There are the possible ways of adjustment, through government as one of many instruments, the most comprehensive of the social institutions-but with a limited fund of public confidence and comprehension on which to draw. There are the tasks of relating the views, wishes, knowledge of citizens and groups of citizens to the possible programs and instruments of government, through communication, organization, and the party and legislative processes. The example of the introduction of the automobile and the facilitation of its use by paved highways, to which I have already referred, illustrates the process of government.
Platt ruled the state; for nigh upon twenty years he ruled it. It was not the governor; it was not the legislature; it was not any elected officers; it was Mr. Platt. " Addresses on Citizenship and Government (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916). (UInvisible Government," speech on the Short Ballot Amendment, August 30, 1915. ) POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION 53 help to explain our delay, despite our boasts of efficiency as a characteristic of our people, In achieving political maturity. It would be unjust if I were to leave the impression that these were and are the only reasons why relatively little advance has been made in state government.
Houston, who was for many years Secretary of Agriculture in President Wilson's Administration, and who in the conduct of his own Department revealed. a concern for the role of organization and process in the achievement of substantive goals. UIt is a question in my mind," he wrote, uwhether the President can long continue to be the formal head of the government, the chief of his party, and the leader of Congress. It may be a task too great for any human being to stand up under; Congress will resent his attempt to lead it.