The traditional and rigid distinction of the field between
the "publicsphere" and the "private sphere" appears to be
waning as public administration's new and flexibly
defined locus waxes. Furthermore, public administrationists
have been increasingly concerned with
the inextricably related areas of policy science,
political economy, the public policy-making process
and its analysis, and the measurement of
policy outputs. These latter aspects can be viewed,
in some ways, as a linkage between public administration's
evolving focus and locus