During the 1920s, Leonard D. White was one of the most important contributors to the Orthodox School. His influential textbook,Introduction to the Study of Public Administration,contained the principles and insights of a newly developed field that were taught to a generation of scholars. In White's view, public administration could be understood as a single, ongoing process that, once mastered, would apply to all organizations in all situation. " Thus,the"correct"structure for a public agency in the United States would be correct for a public agency at any level of government or in any