The observation that CPA is "a dying field" that never dies" is well supported by recent developments. In 1971,the Ford Foundation discontinued its financial support for the Comparative Administration Group. The development administration approach of the 1960s and 1970s had difficulty distinguishing itself from the mother field of public administration. The study of public administration became inward looking (ethnocentric) rather than outward looking (global-centric).
As a result, we know less about other countries' public administration systems. Since the 1970s, several developments during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s slowly and quietly changed the nature of the old CPA.