Research On The Theories Of Administrative State From Dwight Waldo

In the course of the development history of the entire western public administration, Dwight Waldo is widely considered one of the most important founders. Because of Waldo stated a new era. Different from orthodox administration advocated "Managerialism" and "Politics and Administration Dichotomy", Waldo considered that "behind the public administration hidden value of the political philosophy." In following discussion, the background, content of the administrative state will be studied by discussing Waldo’s administrative state thought, and evaluate the thought of Dwight Waldo in the end.The article is divided into five main sections. The first part is introduction. It describes the purpose and significance, literature review, research methods and innovation of the study. The second part, the historical background of the administrative state of Waldo’s thought. Respectively, from the emergence of the administrative state, the highlight of the technical rationality and the democratic political tradition of the USA, the three aspects to illustrate the historical background of Waldo administrative state thoughts. The third part is the details of Waldo’s administrative state thought. Including the value pursued by the government, the standard of administrative action, how to choose the administration staff, integration of administrative and political, and coordination of democracy and efficient. The fourth part, evaluate Waldo administrative state ideology. The first aspect is positive evaluation, Waldo’s administrative state ideology through past to present and adopt views of many scholars, his thought filled with glorious value, and opened up a new perspective administration, and his thought is compromise and open. Negative aspects, his thought has not formed a systematic theoretical system and his some perspective is ambiguous. Moreover, his humanism discussion lack of the basis of logic. The fifth part is Waldo administrative state thought’s enlightenment to China. These revelations including research administration should be based on the entire history of administrative thought, the democracy cannot be ignored in the pursuit of a better life, develop a political ideal of administrative staff, the new era of China should pay more attention to the public interest.This paper will use literature research methods, comparative study methods and historical research methods to analysis Waldo’s administrative state ideology. From the historical background of the United States, Waldo criticized the theory of traditional public administration, then he come to a conclusion that "whole process of public administration contains political theory problems". From the beginning of Waldo, the orthodoxy public administration end, and began to move forward in two directions. One is the logical positivism administration of Herbert ·A·Simon, another of Waldo is that the public administration included the values. Both arguments lead the development of public administration over half a century, the issue is still concerned by administration circles. Since China’s reform and opening, because of advocating efficiency, the justice and other values are ignored. Therefore, in the new period of the development of China’s administration, Waldo’s administrative state thought has an important significance.