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. Waldo wrote in 1968 that, "The truth