Ulysses of Chicago: American Foundations and Public Administration 1900-1960

Ulysses of Chicago: American Foundations and Public Administration 1900-1960

[SHS:HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History

Public Administration Clearing House

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public administration

Spelman Fund of New York

Rockefeller Foundation

governing sciences

transatlantic networks

transnational history

Public Administration as a discipline and a field emerged in the USA in the inter war period with a strong support from the Rockefeller organizations, the Spelman Fund of New York being the main granting agency in the field. This emergence was closely connected to the European experience. This essay attempts to reconstruct the domestic and international settings in which this interchange took place, to pay attention to all those who played a large role in foundation work without being foundation officers, to trace the shifting roles of the European reference in the field of US public administration and to assess the impact of the European work in the field of government. Accordingly, Europe appears to be first a source rather than a target, and then a channel to the wider world rather than a scene of operation.

Saunier, Pierre-Yves

American Foundations in Europe. Grant-giving policies, cultural diplomacy and trans atlantic relations 1920-1980

American Foundations in Europe. Grant-giving policies, cultural diplomacy and trans atlantic relations 1920-1980

American Foundations in Europe. Grant-giving policies, cultural diplomacy and trans atlantic relations 1920-1980

2001

FRE

scientific book chapter

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00002838

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/00/35/43/PDF/Ulysses_of_Chicago.pdf