Thus we come to realize that it may be the case that the current incapacity of the Public
Choice program to effectively move to the policy and applied stage may have something to
do with the way the domain of Public Administration is perceived (or misperceived) and
approached (or sidestepped). But this is also the point when we realize that the resources to
overcome this predicament (or at least to understand it better) are already there, in the
Public Choice tradition. Although today this fact seems ignored or forgotten, the truth is
that the Public Choice revolution was from the very beginning strongly rooted precisely in
the field of Public Administration. Looking back at its own history, it may be the case that
some important clues about how the next step should be made are to be found in the very
work of some of the pioneers of the Public Choice movement.