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U.S. Public Administration

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and local enterprise that affects the life of every American every day (2001). The American government uses collected taxes to provide social welfare programs but the government also helps Americans  communicate with each other, obtain an education, finance our homes, obtain health care and they protect all of us from enemies through a federally-funded security bureaucracy (Gordon and Miakovich, 2001).  The many programs supported by the government have been enacted and implemented over many years. So, how did the arena of public administration come to be? The publication of Woodrow  Wilsons, "The Study of Administration" in 1887 has been credited with being the beginning of the study of public administration in America (Kettl, 2000). This was a time in history  known as the Progressive era and Wilsons text was intended to establish the study of public administration as a field in itself (Kettl, 2000). To reinforce this premise, Wilson  drew a very clear line between politics and administration (Kettl, 2000). This line of demarcation has been a point of controversy since Wilson wrote his article (Kettl, 2000). Many question  whether it is even possible to separate the two and if it is possible, is it desirable (Kettl, 2000). Still, the American Political Science Association was established in 1900 with  Frank J. Goodnow as the first president of the organization, a man who championed Wilsons cause (Kettl, 2000). Goodnow firmly believed that public administration was the much-needed link between the  study of politics, which tends to be abstract, and the process of improving how that political system worked (Kettl, 2000). This group thrived with five of the first eleven presidents  coming from the field and practice of public administration; it was these people who played the most important roles in framing this new discipline called public administration (Kettl, 2000). Wilson,