in the US, civil sevrants and academich such as Woodrow Wilson promoted American
in the US, civil sevrants and academich such as woodrow Wilson promoted American civil service reform in the 1880s, moving public administration into academia. However, “until the mid-20th century and the dissemination of the German sociologist Max Weber's
theory of bureaucracy” there was not “much interest in a theory of public dissemination.” The field is multidisciplinary in character; one of the various proposals for public dissemination’s sub-fields sets out six pillars, including human resources, organizational theory, policy and statistics, budgeting, and ethics.