The difficulty of finding a core or boundary to public administration is no surprise to researchers. This paper argues that a principlist approach, taking as its model the development of the field of biomedical ethics, can make a virtue out of this apparent vice. This paper will argue that four...

What is “the state,” and what is its relevance, if any, to public administration? The concept of the state goes back for centuries but has become an increasingly more widely discussed topic within the last 30 years. This review of five important works on the subject will present the major...