This list of public administration scholars includes notable theorists, academics, and researchers from public administration, public policy, and related fields such as economics, political science, management, administrative law. All of the individuals in this list have made a notable contribution to the field of public administration.
O. P. Dwivedi Graham T. Allison Paul Appleby Walter Bagehot Chester Barnard Reinhard Bendix Francis Bland James M. Buchanan Lynton K. Caldwell Michel Crozier Robert A. Dahl A.V. Dicey Anthony Downs Peter Drucker Patrick Dunleavy Dorman Bridgman Eaton David John Farmer Henri Fayol James W. Fesler Mary Parker Follett H. George Frederickson Francis Fukuyama Louis C. Gawthrop Frank J. Goodnow Charles Goodsell Luther Gulick Friedrich Hayek Hugh Heclo E. Pendleton Herring Otto Hintze Marc Holzer Ralph P. Hummel Patricia Ingraham Barry Dean Karl V.O. Key, Jr. Gyula Koi Harold Laski Harold Lasswell Charles E. Lindblom Michael Lipsky Norton E. Long Theodore J. Lowi Niklas Luhmann James March Roscoe C. Martin Karl Marx Renate Mayntz Howard E. McCurdy Kenneth J. Meier Robert K. Merton Henry Mintzberg Mark H. Moore Frederick C. Mosher R. E. Neustadt Felix A. Nigro W. A. Niskanen Rosemary O'Leary Johan Olsen Elinor Ostrom Laurence O'Toole C. Northcote Parkinson James L. Perry Gerrit van Poelje Jack Rabin Hal G. Rainey Emmette Redford R. A. W. Rhodes Norma M. Riccucci Alasdair Roberts John A. Rohr David H. Rosenbloom Philip James Rutledge S.N. Sadasivan Allen Schick Philip Selznick Patricia M. Shields Herbert A. Simon Theda Skocpol Stephen Skowronek Lorenz von Stein Richard J. Stillman II Camilla Stivers Joseph R. Strayer Frederick Winslow Taylor Alain Touraine Thomas Frederick Tout Paul P. Van Riper Dwight Waldo Gary Wamsley Kenneth F. Warren Max Weber Leonard D. White Aaron Wildavsky William F. Willoughby James Q. Wilson Woodrow Wilson Deil S. Wright
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