The role of administration in the modern state is profoundly affected by the general political and cultural environment of the age. - Leonard D. White

Any system of public administration inevitably reflects its environment.

More and more clearly it is being understood that the promise of American life will never be realized until American administration has been lifted out of the ruts in which it has been left by a century of neglect.

To conduct of government business... [is similar to the] conduct of the affairs of any other social organization, commercial, philanthropic, religious, or educational, in all of which good management is recognized as an element essential to success.