How Waldo evaluates traditional administrative science

Waldo argues that the political-administrative dichotomy is inappropriate either as a description of reality or as a regulation of administrative behavior, and that cooperation between administrative and political powers should be encouraged rather than between the separated powers. Waldo criticized the rationalist tendency of traditional theories of administrative organization, criticizing traditional administrative science for overemphasizing inter-organizational * * * or so-called principles at the expense of concreteness as "administrative substance". Waldo also accused the so-called administrative "science" of traditional administrative scientists of relying mainly on "the accumulation of facts.

Dwight Waldo (1913--2000), a prominent academic historian of public ****ministration, was born in Nebraska on September 28, 1913, and graduated from Nebraska State Teachers College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935, before being admitted to the University of Nebraska for a master's degree in political science. to pursue a master's degree in political science.

Waldo received his master's degree in 1937 and accepted a Cowles Fellowship from Yale University. While studying political science at Yale, he specialized in the history of political thought. he served as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Yale from 1941-1942 and received his Ph.D. in 1942.

Waldo's views and attitudes toward public ****ministration changed substantially during the eight years between the formation of his ideas and the formal publication of his doctoral dissertation, The Administrative State.Between 1957--1960 he served on the staff of the American Political Science Association, of which he was vice president in 1961.

He also served on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review from 1959--1963. In the field of public ****administration, Waldow served as a trustee of the American Society of Public ****administration from 1963--1966. From 1958 through 1966, Waldo also served on the editorial board of the American Review of Public **** Administration, and in 1966 he became editor-in-chief of that publication. Since 1963, Waldo has served on the editorial board of the International Review of Administrative Sciences.