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IT IS a fair question to ask whether all the attention that has been given to governmental reorganizations in recent years has been worth the time and effort. Reorganizations seem to come in waves, in cycles; in recent years the press has been full of reorganization talk, sometimes creating the illusion that reorganization is a kind of revivalism in governmental reform, fervid while it lasts, but short-lived. Too frequent surveys by outside experts keep government in a continuous state of turmoil and uncertainty, and so much emphasis may create public expectations which cannot be lived up to. If care is not exercised, this new profession of the organization expert may fall into disrepute. Herbert Emmerich found that in a short space of time around 1949, when both the Hoover Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government and the Rowe Commission for Reorganization in Puerto Rico rendered their reports, over half of the forty-eight states also created commissions or special committees to make comprehensive surveys of their administrative apparatus.l In part, of course, this newest wave of reorganization reform may be explained by taxpayer worry over the high cost of government, the dislocations stemming from the expanded functions of a government fighting a
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