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Woodrow Wilson's Ideas About Local Government Reform: A Regime Perspective on the New Push for Citizen Engagement in Public Administration

Brian J. Cook

Clark University, Worcester, MA

New scholarship promoting direct citizen engagement in public administration is grounded in a rejection of the theory and ethos of the administrative state, including the presumptively conventional views of Woodrow Wilson. Yet Wilson's ideas in this regard were hardly conventional. As part of his sweeping prescriptive vision for a national administrative system in the United States, Wilson promoted cities as the exclusive locus of direct citizen engagement in administration. Scholars and practitioners of the new participatory governance who attend to Wilson's ideas can acquire a valuable regime-level perspective on redefining the role of the public in public management and governance.

Key Words: Woodrow Wilson • municipal administration • citizen participation

Administration & Society, Vol. 39, No. 2, 294-314 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0095399706298056
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