Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF LIFE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, cilt.25, sa.1, ss.7901-7914, 2025 (Scopus)
Modernity in Western Europe and the Enlightenment philosophies of different societies have been influential in the emergence and development of the discipline of public administration as a modern social science. As a matter of fact, public administration, which was born in America in the 19th century, has progressed with the developments in Continental European philosophy and the Anglo-Saxon world. The intellectual movement in Western Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries continued in the 20th century with debates on contemporary philosophy and sociology. German and French philosophy, with its more factualist and softened assumptions, shaped British and American philosophy and the way of producing knowledge for centuries. Public administration has also been influenced by this process in its formulation. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of the British, German and French Enlightenment on the birth and development of public administration in certain aspects. The method of the study is a literature review. While public administration was close to American Anglo-Saxon values in the 19th century when it was founded, it continued its Americanorigin development in the 20th century with German and French influence after World War II.