The Peculiar "Stateless" Origins of American Public Administration and the Consequences for Government Today
本文探讨了美国公共行政学会（ASPA）在1939年成立的历史背景，指出美国在无此类组织的情况下运行了150年，并分析了这种“无国家”起源对当代政府的影响。
When the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) was born at the American Political Science Association's 35th annual meeting at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC, 27 December 1939, the United States by coincidence in the same year had celebrated its constitutional sesquicentennial. None of ASPA's founders seemed bothered by the curious fact that America had gotten along rather nicely for 150 years without such an organization. However, having recently endured the Great Depression and facing the certain prospects of global war, all believed the time had come to establish an organization oriented toward promoting the art and science of administration.