"Public administration is a process or a theory, not merely an accumulation of detailed facts. It is Verwaltungslehre. The object of administrative study should be to discover, first, what government can properly and successfully do, and secondly, how it can do these proper things with the utmost possible efficiency and at the least possible cost both of money and of energy."
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Marshall E. Dimock
Marshall Edward Dimock (1903 - Nov. 14, 1991) was an American political scientist, Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Government at , known for his work in the field of public administration.
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