Things got relatively nasty by the end of the
decade and, for that matter, well into the 1960s.
In 1962, public administration was not included as
a subfield of political science in the report of the
Committee on Political Science as a Discipline of
the American Political Science Association In
1964 a major survey of political scientists indicated
that the Public Administration Review was
slipping in prestige among political scientists relative
to other journals, and signalled a decline of
faculty interest in public administration generally
In 1967, public administration disappeared
as an organizing category in the program of the
annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association