Deep Capture

Deep Capture by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute The Administrative State’s Intellectual Origins Woodrow Wilson holds a distinction no other American president has: he earned a Ph.D., completing his doctorate in political science and history at Johns Hopkins University in 1886. That same year, he wrote an essay called "The Study of Administration," later published in the inaugural volume of Political Science Quarterly. Historians widely credit this essay as the founding document of public administration as a formal academic field, and Wilson himself as the father of that discipline. Wilson's central argument was that government should be split into two separate domains: politics, where elected officials set broad...

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