The politics/administration dichotomy—a heuristic used to define the field's parameters—is a durable cornerstone of American public administration. Its starting point is in Woodrow Wilson's often-cited 1887 essay. Wilson used a definitional technique for analytic and persuasive purposes in which he distinguished administrative province and process from political province and process. Exegesis on that and the rest of Wilson's formal work reveals that he delimited the subject of administration to contrast it with the province and process of the legislative function. Like a fulcrum, he modified the leverage point of politics-and-administration as he viewed the field from different vantages, first as scholar and later as politician. Although ragged around the edges, the debate endures about the relationship of politics and administration. This assessment offers one more perspective.
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