Problem:
The belief that politics could only adversely affect administration is not entirely valid. Various scholars have made several contributions to developing public administration as a discipline. In 1887, Woodrow Wilson's famous essay The Study of Administration marked the beginning of public administration as a specific field of study. Wilson wanted to study the organization and methods of government offices to understand what the government can do. He also wanted to know the most efficient and cost-effective way for the government to do things properly. Wilson argued that there was a clear distinction between politics and administration; politics is the expression of will, but administration is the execution of that will. This all started what became known as the politics-administration dichotomy. In 1900, Frank J. Goodnow expanded the idea of the politics-administration dichotomy in his book, Politics and Administration. Goodnow claimed that the separation of powers caused several dilemmas with both political and administrative functions. Around this same time, Frederick W. Taylor, who was considered the father of scientific management, provided the notion that there was one best way of completing a task. He argued that the best way to discover the fastest, most efficient, and least fatiguing production method. This is related to Wilson's approach; however, Taylor added that the manager, or in this case, the scientific manager, needed to enforce the best method of discovery