Public Adminstration Leonard D White
Background of the scholar
Leonard Dupe White was born in Acton, Massachusetts, US on January 17, 1891 and died
February 23, 1985 in Chicago. He was an American political scientist and historian who was a leading authority in Public Administration. He graduated and received the degrees at
Dartmouth College in 1914 and master at Dartmouth college in 1915. White received his
Ph.D from the University Of Chicago in 1920. He served in the Department of Political
Science at University Of Chicago from 1920 until 1956 and was a Chairman of the
Department of Political Science from 1940 until 1948. He was married to Una Lucillen
Holden and have a daughter named Marcia.
Scholar contributions towards public administration
Leonard White was a scholar informed by experience and an administrator guided by study and reflection. The influences he exerted through his scholarly writings and his innovative contributions to improvement of the public service were great and lasting. His success, as seen by a close co-worker, required strong personal qualities as well as intellect, perhaps most significantly a remarkable self-organization and discipline which directed all his work toward carefully-chosen goals. The achievements of Leonard Dupe White, here described, will serve as a hopeful fact of history and an inspiration to many to bring new industry to their tasks. Leonard DupeWhite had focused a good deal of attention on specific public policy debates and on doctrinal issues in constitutional law, they left the institutional history of the federal government largely untouched. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to suggest that, with the publication of these four volumes, White invented the subject of American administrative history as an academic field. Unlike earlier historians of American government,
White took as his subject neither policy nor law. Rather, he chronicled the process of government, with a particular focus on key
Leonard Dupe White was born in Acton, Massachusetts, US on January 17, 1891 and died
February 23, 1985 in Chicago. He was an American political scientist and historian who was a leading authority in Public Administration. He graduated and received the degrees at
Dartmouth College in 1914 and master at Dartmouth college in 1915. White received his
Ph.D from the University Of Chicago in 1920. He served in the Department of Political
Science at University Of Chicago from 1920 until 1956 and was a Chairman of the
Department of Political Science from 1940 until 1948. He was married to Una Lucillen
Holden and have a daughter named Marcia.
Scholar contributions towards public administration
Leonard White was a scholar informed by experience and an administrator guided by study and reflection. The influences he exerted through his scholarly writings and his innovative contributions to improvement of the public service were great and lasting. His success, as seen by a close co-worker, required strong personal qualities as well as intellect, perhaps most significantly a remarkable self-organization and discipline which directed all his work toward carefully-chosen goals. The achievements of Leonard Dupe White, here described, will serve as a hopeful fact of history and an inspiration to many to bring new industry to their tasks. Leonard DupeWhite had focused a good deal of attention on specific public policy debates and on doctrinal issues in constitutional law, they left the institutional history of the federal government largely untouched. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to suggest that, with the publication of these four volumes, White invented the subject of American administrative history as an academic field. Unlike earlier historians of American government,
White took as his subject neither policy nor law. Rather, he chronicled the process of government, with a particular focus on key