A FIRST TEXTBOOK FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
While Woodrow Wilson provided the rationale for public administration to be an academic discipline and professional specialty,it remained for leonard D. White (1891-1958)to most clearly articulate its preliminary objectives.A U.S civil Service commissioner from 1934 to 1937, White spent most of his career at the university of Chicago In the preface to his pioneering 1926 book Introduction to the study of Public Administration the first text in the field he noted four critical assumption that formed the basis for the study of public administration(1) administration is a unitary process than can be studied uniformly, at the federal, state, and local levels;(2) the basis for study is management ,not low(3) administration is still and art, but the ideal of transformance to a science is both feasible and worthwhile; and (4) the recognition that administration 'has become, and will continue to be the heart of the problem of modern government'