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John M. Gaus Quotes

1894–1969 United States

John Merriman Gaus (1894-1969) was an American social scientist, and Professor of Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University. He graduated from Amherst College in 1915, during the presidency of Alexander Meiklejohn.

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Also known as: J. M. Gaus, John Merriman Gaus

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The study of public administration must include its ecology.

Organization is the arrangement of personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some agreed purpose through the allocation of functions and responsibilities.

The task will be more fruitfully performed if the citizen, and his agents in public offices, understand the ecology of government.

New plains frontier was politically organized and opened and settled with little, if any, heed to its natural features of climate and land cover.

Leonard D. White's desire "to organize his own knowledge" reminds us of how much hacking away at a jungle has to be done at such an early stage in the study of and reporting on a new field.

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