在18世紀,對於行政專家的需求進一步擴大,也因此腓特烈·威廉一世在法兰克福建立了一個名為Kameralwissenschaft的經濟學和社會學的學校,以改革普魯士社會。其中最知名的教授是約翰·海因里希·哥特洛布·尤斯蒂(Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi),他將學校裡的理論和自然法的概念連結起來,這所學校的理論被稱為官房主義(Kameralism)。
不過實際上根據學者來伯(英语:Paul P. Van Riper)的研究,威爾遜的研究在當時並未受到重視,早期的公共行政學者也未在其具有分量的文章中做為參考書籍引用,此外檢視1890年到第一次世界大戰期間主要的政治學與社會科學著作也顯示該文未被引用[15]:16。〈行政的研究〉受到重視是1941年《政治學季刊》重新刊載此文後的事,此後公共行政學者才逐漸加以重視並受之影響[15]:16。
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^Kettl, Donald and James Fessler. 2009. The Politics of the Administrative Process. Washington D.C.: CQ Press.
^Public administration, the implementation of government policies. Today public administration is often regarded as including also some responsibility for determining the policies and programs of governments. Specifically, it is the planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling of government operations.
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^Lipsky, Michael. Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service. 本書有中文譯本:蘇文賢、江吟梓譯。(2010)。《基層官僚:公職人員的困境》。台北:學富文化。. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2010. ISBN 9780871545442.