重温沃尔多的《行政国家》:写在《行政国家》出版70周年之际

Revisiting Dwight Waldo's:The Administrative State on its Seventieth Anniversary

正值《行政国家》(1948)出版70周年之际,本文对德怀特·沃尔多这本著作的重要性进行了回顾和评价。首先,本文提供了一个有关德怀特·沃尔多的传记式描述,作为将沃尔多的学术贡献放入更宏大的个人背景中的一种方式;随后,本文把《行政国家》对公共行政领域的影响置于20世纪三四十年代的环境中来对其进行研究;接下来,本文逐章地回顾《行政国家》一书及其对公共行政领域的长久贡献;最后,文章对沃尔多的后续影响做简要的评价。

This article reviews and assesses the importance of Dwight Waldo's book on The Administrative State(1948) as it approaches the seventieth anniversary of its publication. It first provides a biographical sketch of Dwight Waldo as a means of putting his academic contributions into a broader personal context. It then contextualizes impact of the The Administrative State on the field of public administration by situating it in the intellectual milieu of public administration in the 1930s and 1940s. Next, it provides a chapter by chapter review of the book and its lasting contributions to the field. The article concludes with a brief assessment of Waldo's continuing legacy.