The Process of Administrative Reform

Changing attitudes is one of the most difficult and most crucial things to achieve in the whole process of administrative reform, for there is no telling when former attitudes may return. In more tangible form, administrators are constantly aware of the political decisions that determine their actions and of their political contribution to society. People&s;s general tolerance for the inconveniences of maladministration is no reason to suppose that they are not unaware of the need for improvement. Administrative reform is only a minor part of the transformation of the social order and may be more the result of other radical changes than the deliberate objective of the revolutionaries. No catalogue of ways and means can guarantee the potential reformer that his selection among the possibilities will be correct or that he has the talents necessary for implementation. Attempts to evaluate administrative reform according to other criteria Involve serious methodological problems.