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To mark the 60th anniversary of the appearance of The Administrative State by reexamining the politics–administration debate is confining and ignores Waldo's grand enterprise to describe the unique context in which American public administration emerged and developed. Instead of bemoaning or strategizing the reconciliation of a supposed schism, modern scholars should appreciate what is, in fact, a natural and necessary tension.

Larry D. Terry died in Atlanta, Georgia on June 17, 2006, of
respiratory arrest due to an allergic reaction. At the time of his death,
he was vice-president for business and professor of public administration
at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD). He was 52 years old.

Does racism ever shape the way public administrators make decisions? The story of Hurricane Katrina is an opportunity to consider this neglected question. Discriminatory government policies and processes over decades ensured that African Americans were disproportionately harmed by the storm and its aftermath. In contrast to the literature on bureaucratic discretion, when the crisis came, administrators at all levels chose to take refuge in regulations rather than act creatively to save lives and reduce misery. Images of desperate black New Orleanians juxtaposed with massive government failures raise, even for skeptical observers, issues of race and racism that must no longer be ignored. The essay urges that we explore the extent to which "masked" racism affects the practice of public administration.
The Impartial Administration of Justice is the Foundation of Liberty.  —Inscription on the Orleans Parish Courthouse You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals … so many of these people … are so poor and they are so black.  —Wolf Blitzer, CNN, September 1, 2005