definition of locus-the governmental bureaucracy-but
a corresponding loss of focus. Should
the mechanics of budgets and personnel procedures
be studied exclusively? Or should public
administrationists consider the grand philosophic
schemata of the "administrative Platonists," as one
political scientist called them such as Paul
Appleby? Or should they explore quite new
fields of inquiry, as urged by Simon as they
related to the analysis of organizations and decision
making? In brief