But there was a problem in the administrative science roule,and a real one . If it were selected as the sole focus of public administration , could one continue to speak of public administration? After all, administrative science, While not advocating universal principles, nevertheless did and does contend that all organizations and managerial methodologies have certain characteristics, patterns, and pathologies in common. if only administrative science defined the field’s paradigm, then public administration would exchange, at best being an “emphasis” in political science departments for being, at best, a subfield in schools of administrative science. This often would mean in practice that schools of business administration would absor the field of public administration; whether profit-conscious “B-school types” could adequately appreciate the vital value of the public interest as an aspect of administrative science was a question of genuine importance to public administrations, and one for which the probable answers were less than comforting.