Frederick C. Mosher

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Frederick C. Mosher was a professor of government at the University of Virginia who strongly influenced a generation of scholars in public administration with his many writings. Mosher was an important member of the second generation of public administration scholars along with his close friend, Dwight Waldo, and others who helped define the moderen structure and function of the field as taught in hundreds of PA programs around the world.

His classic work is Democracy and the Public Service published by Oxford University Press, a work that has influenced countless civil servants in governments around the world.

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Max O. Stephenson, Jr. and Jeremy Plant, "The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher" Public Administration Review Volume 51, No. 2, March/April 1991.