With a paradigmatic focus of organization
theory and management science, and a paradigmatic
locus of the public interest as it relates to public affairs, public administration at last is
intellectually prepared for the building of an
institutionally autonomous educational curriculum
that can develop the epistemological uniqueness of
the field. What that curriculum will be is open to
speculation, but some trends seem to be emerging.
One is that the field is burgeoning. Between 1970
and 1971 alone, undergraduate enrollments in
public administration increased 36 per cent, and
between 1971 and 1972 graduate enrollments
went up 50 per cent.