The advocates of these ideas were calling for a distinct from of administration according to which the primary responsibility of government in a developing country is actively to lead, stimulate and centrally coordinate the country’s total development endeavor. ( this distinct from of administration, hereafter referred to as the theory of development administration, will be further described in a subsequent section of this essay ). In more recent literature, the conception of development administration being regarded as a distinct from of administration for developing countries appears to have lost its meaning. However the term has lasted as a common-sense designator of the larger set of writings directed specifically at public administrative development. In this sense, development administration clearly covers more than specific refroms or projects, it also in cludes the study of more permanent characteristics and behavior of public administration in developing countries. This how the term is used in the present essay.