Bryan Velazquez Essays (522 words) - Politics, Political Corruption

Bryan Velazquez Rathbone Intro to Public Admin 22 September 2017 Topic Report 1 The era I have chosen to write about is the beginning of it all and how the study of public administration was introduced to the United States. This all began with an essay written by a man named Woodrow Wilson in 1887 and in that essay he addressed the problems within the government and how corrupt it has been during those time and how it should be fixed. He had a question that many people in the United States have today about the government and that is, how does the government work and operate? Wilson believed that the government needed to be reformed in order to make it more efficient and he believed that public administration would cure and help this problem of inefficiency and corruption. The impact that this had on the field of public administration is that it introduced the Idea of finding out exactly what the government does and how it operates and realizing that it isn't efficient and is corrupt and needing to fix that. The public was introduced to this and followed the idea and Wilson had many people who understood his essay and who agreed with his idea of public administration. Without that essay in 1887, the whole idea of the study of public administration could've been nonexistent and we would still be dealing with inefficiency and corruption in our government which we actually are still dealing with this today but it isn't as bad as before to some degree. This essay was obviously a positive change because it brought the study of public administration to life and opened the publics eyes to this. With that said Wilson contribution to public administration has been bigger than any other person on this earth and that is something remarkable. His idea still has a ways to go because even today the government is inefficient and very much so corrupt and that was the main reason why he wrote that essay, to end corruption and to fix the government but to also figure out how it operates and that is pretty much solved because for the most part we know how the government works but we don't have much say as to what they do with the power that they have. Public administration is still a topic that if you ask many people what it means and what the purpose of it is they won't know and that's a major problem that we have in today's world because it is vital to know about all the public organizations in our country and how they work. There really isn't much more to it than that, he is considered the man who began the study of public administration and changed the topic for the better and made it mainstream to the public. References Adah, Ogabo . "The contribution of Woodrow Wilson to the field of Public Administration by Ogabo Adah." Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/7987979/the_contribution_of_Woodrow_Wilson_to_the_field_of_Public_Administration_by_Ogabo_Adah. Accessed 20 Sept. 2017. "Wilson's View on Politics and Administration." ILLUMINATION IAS , 30 July 2010, blessan.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/wilson%E2%80%99s-view-on-politics-and-administration/. Accessed 20 Sept. 2017.