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By the late 1800s and into the early 1900s, political science courses had begun appearing on college campuses. This was followed by the establishment of political science departments and degree programs.

— Mary E. Guy

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As a subfield, public administration first appeared separately in the annual listing of doctoral dissertations in the American Political Science Review in 1936.

A century ago two fields, political science and public administration, were one. At the 1939 meeting of the American Political Science Association, public administration created its own professional organization, and the two fields’ paths have since diverged.

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