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What parts of this function of administration should be subjected to the control of the function of politics?

— Frank Johnson Goodnow Politics and Administration (1900)

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The use of the word "administration," is unfortunately somewhat misleading, for the word when accompanied by the definite article is also used to indicate... popularly the most important executive or administrative authorities.

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The state attains its ends as well through liberty as through government, as well through entrusting the care of matters of public interest to individuals as through the maintenance of public governmental services for their management.

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