Dwight Waldo

For the first president of Western Michigan University, see Dwight B. Waldo.
Dwight Waldo
Born(1913-09-28)September 28, 1913
De Witt, Nebraska, U.S.
DiedOctober 27, 2000(2000-10-27) (aged 87)
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska
Yale University
Known forTheory of Bureaucratic Government
Scientific career
FieldsPublic administration
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Syracuse University
Virginia Tech
ThesisThe Administrative State (1948)
Doctoral advisorFrancis Coker

Clifford Dwight Waldo (September 28, 1913 – October 27, 2000) was an American political scientist and is perhaps the defining figure in modern public administration.[1] Waldo's career was often directed against a scientific/technical portrayal of bureaucracy and government that now suggests the term public management as opposed to public administration.[2] Waldo is recognized the world over for his contributions to the theory of bureaucratic government.

  1. ^ Revisiting Waldo's administrative state : constancy and change in public administration. Rosenbloom, David H., McCurdy, Howard E. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 2006. ISBN 9781435627475. OCLC 290559169.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ "Dwight Waldo Started It All | Maxwell School". The Maxwell School of Syracuse University. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-07-14.