Book Reviews and Notices : An Introduction to Administrative Law. By JAMES HART. (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1950. Second Edition. Pp. xxviii, 819. $7.00.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400162
• Published date: 01 March 1951
• Author: Robert Campbell Mackenzie
• Date: 01 March 1951
• Subject Matter: Articles

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the recruitment, selection, and professional development of research
workers, fellowships for training scientific researchers, and incentives for
scientists. Parts IV and V
treat budgeting for research programs, analyzing
and accounting for costs, duplication of research efforts, and publication
and reporting of research results. In part VI, George Bush sums up the
results of the Institute meetings.
This is a difficult book to review because the discussion of each
subject is so brief. The most illuminating sections seem to be those which
give specific illustrations of some of the problems of administration. The
major conclusion is that the five cardinal factors found by Cathryn Seckler-
Hudson (in Processes of Organization and Management) to underlie other
administrative situations are also found in the administration of scientific
research: (1) specialization of effort increases in differentiation; (2) these
specialized efforts require a greater degree of coordination; (3) specializa-
tion and its coordination must be directed by leadership toward an estab-
lished central policy or goal; (4) appropriate methods and procedures
must be developed in order to achieve a central policy; and (5) admin-
istration is subject to the forces of human dynamics. Some readers may
wonder whether this conclusion gets us off the ground at all in exploring
problems of the administration of scientific research. Lawrence R. Hafstad
of the Atomic Energy Commission puts the over,all problem more suc-
cinctly (p. 21): &dquo;This, then, I would consider the fundamental difficulty
in the problem of coordinating governmental research or research of any
kind. As the job gets big, it becomes amazingly complex, and the number
of people with both superior administrative and technical ability is not
adequate to go around. Our national research program is suffering from
too rapid growth and is in a stage of awkward adolescence. We must
raise a new, larger, and better crop of [research] leaders....