List of public administration scholars

This list of public administration scholars includes notable theorists, academics, and researchers from public administration, public policy, and related fields such as economics, political science, management, administrative law. All of the individuals in this list have made a notable contribution to the field of public administration.

O. P. Dwivedi Graham T. Allison Paul Appleby Walter Bagehot Chester Barnard Reinhard Bendix James M. Buchanan Lynton K. Caldwell Michel Crozier Robert A. Dahl A.V. Dicey Anthony Downs - Had a major influence on the public choice school of political economy. Peter Drucker Patrick Dunleavy - Originated the bureau-shaping model of bureaucracy. Dorman Bridgman Eaton David John Farmer - Author of The Language of Public Administration, listed as one of the candidate books for “great books of public administration, 1990-2010” (Meier & O’Toole, 2012, p. 890).[1][2] Henri Fayol James W. Fesler Mary Parker Follett H. George Frederickson Louis C. Gawthrop Frank J. Goodnow - Father of American Public Administration. Charles Goodsell Luther Gulick Friedrich Hayek - Thought that socialism required central economic planning and that such planning in turn had a risk of leading towards totalitarianism. Hugh Heclo E. Pendleton Herring Otto Hintze Marc Holzer - Founding Dean School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey. Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Ralph P. Hummel Patricia Ingraham Barry Dean Karl V.O. Key, Jr. Harold Laski Harold Lasswell Charles E. Lindblom - One of the early developers and advocates of the theory of incrementalism in policy and decision-making. Michael Lipsky - Did research on the phenomenon of street-level bureaucracy. Norton E. Long Theodore J. Lowi Niklas Luhmann James March - One of the developers of the systemic-anarchic perspective of organizational decision making known as the Garbage Can Model. Karl Marx - Believed that government is controlled by those with the most influence on the economy. Renate Mayntz

Howard E. McCurdy Kenneth J. Meier Robert K. Merton Henry Mintzberg Mark H. Moore Frederick C. Mosher R. E. Neustadt W. A. Niskanen - Founded the rational choice stream of analysing bureaucracy. Rosemary O'Leary Johan Olsen - One of the developers of the systemic-anarchic perspective of organizational decision making known as the Garbage Can Model. Elinor Ostrom C. Northcote Parkinson - Author of Parkinson's Law, a book that satirizes government bureaucracies and explains the inevitability of bureaucratic expansion. James L. Perry Gerrit van Poelje - Founder of the science of public administration in the Netherlands. Jack Rabin Hal G. Rainey Ken Rasmussen Emmette Redford R. A. W. Rhodes Norma M. Riccucci John A. Rohr David H. Rosenbloom Philip James Rutledge S.N. Sadasivan Allen Schick Philip Selznick Patricia M. Shields Herbert A. Simon Theda Skocpol Stephen Skowronek Lorenz von Stein - Founder of the science of public administration in Europe. Richard J. Stillman II Camilla Stivers Joseph R. Strayer Frederick W. Taylor Alain Touraine Thomas Frederick Tout Paul P. Van Riper Dwight Waldo Gary Wamsley Kenneth F. Warren Max Weber - Did research on bureaucracy. Leonard D. White Aaron Wildavsky William F. Willoughby James Q. Wilson Woodrow Wilson - Founder of the science of public administration in the United States. Deil S. Wright

Suggested reading

• Smith, Kevin B. and Licari, Michael J. Public Administration — Power and Politics in the Fourth Branch of Government, ISBN 1-933220-04-X

References

1. Meier, Kenneth & Lawrence O’Toole (2012). Influence: What kind? And How to know? Administration and Society 44(7): 888-893
2. Farmer, David John (1995). The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity and Postmodernity, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press