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Revisiting Waldo’s Administrative State grew out of a symposium on “The Administrative State Reconsidered,” hosted by American University’s School of Public Affairs in 2003 to honor the fifty-fifth anniversary of Dwight Waldo’s classic work. The symposium could not have been held without the enthusiasm and support of American University’s provost at the time, Cornelius Kerwin, and the dean of the School of Public Affairs, William LeoGrande. We thank them for making the entire endeavor possible and contributing greatly to its overall quality. We also thank the people who joined us as authors of this book, John Cadigan, Robert Durant, Patricia Ingraham, Donald Kettl, Norma Riccucci, Barbara Romzek, and Larry Terry, for their participation in the symposium and willingness to revise and carefully craft their papers into the following chapters. We are grateful to everyone else who attended and participated in the symposium, though they are too numerous to name here. Special thanks go to Kimberly Martin and other members of the school staff who completed the often invisible work that allowed the symposium to occur. Professor Suzanne Piotrowski of Rutgers University–Newark helped to keep things running smoothly and to facilitate valuable participation by the symposium’s attendees. The book benefited substantially from the very helpful suggestions of anonymous readers for Georgetown University Press, as well as those of its public policy series editor, Professor Beryl Radin. The book is dedicated to the late Dwight Waldo, who made so many things possible for so many of us in the field of public administration

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