Development of Modern Public Administration

Indeed, an examination of what Walker has to say about the way the criminal justice system is structured can then be used as an example of the sorts of developments noted by the other two writers in the field of public administration over the last century or so. Walker's history of the administration of American criminal justice extends back before modern public administration to the colonial era. In the earlier sections, Walke

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stice system as new ideas developed during the course of the century, from the beginnings of reform and a new sense of a system in place to efforts at the control of crime, new professional mandates to solve problems, changes in the relative roles of rehabilitation and punishment in corrections, and the development of a crisis that seems to be beyond the scope of administrative behavior to affect in the present era. The picture Walker presents is of a public administration that is badly in need of a new theoretical perspective that will help solve the real problems faced today. Fry covers essentially the same period of time as does Walker with a more generalized discussion of public administration theory and the changes in approach over that period of time. What emerges from the different theoretical perspectives is a sense that public administration deals in some measure with the differences or balance between the administrator on the one hand and the politician on the other. The Classical School, and also the approach of Max Weber, believed that the proper relationship between the two was that the bureaucrat was the neutral servant of the political masters. A hierarchical structure was thus indicated, with each level lookin
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