The Administrative Conference of the United States: Recommendations to Advance Cross‐Agency Collaboration under the GPRA Modernization Act

Abstract

The interplay between law and public administration was perhaps best described by Woodrow Wilson, who once said that “[p]ublic administration is detailed and systematic execution of public law. Every particular application of general law is an act of administration.” Wilson’s words still ring true today at the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), where principles of public administration and management are intertwined with the work of ACUS. Accordingly, readers of Public Administration Review are invited to learn more about the Administrative Conference and assist in fulfi lling its mission. One path to do so may lie in a recent study conducted by Jane E. Fountain for ACUS titled “Th e GPRA Modernization Act of 2010: Examining Constraints to, and Providing Tools for, Cross-Agency Collaboration” (Fountain 2013).