Public And Private Government

c aWeU oLcctu icA an at Jncluma XnWe iAitti. W. HARRY JELLEMA, EDITOR EIGHTH SERIES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC PRIVATE GOVERNMENT BY CHARLES E. MERRIAM Published for Indiana University YAL UNIVERSITY PRE S London, Humporey Mftford, . Qxford COPYRIGHT, 1944, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Printed in the United States of America First published, April, 1944 Second printing, April, 1945 All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form except by reviewers for the public press, without written permission from the publishers. The Printing-Office of the Tale University Press THE MAHLON POWELL FOUNDATION MAHLON POWELL 1842-1928 WABASH, INDIANA Extract from the last Will and Testament of Mahlon Powell Having entertained a desire for many years to assist in the cause of a higher education for the young men and women of our state and nation, and to that end provide a fund to be held in trust for the same, and to select a proper school or univer sity where the same would continue in perpetuity, I will, devise and bequeath all of the real and personal property that I possess and of which I die seized to the Trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, to be held by them and their successors in office forever, the Income only to be used and applied in the support and maintenance of a Chair in Phi losophy in said institution, and to be dedicated and forever known as The Mahlon Powell Professorship in Philosophy of said University. In accordance with the provisions of this bequest, the Trustees of Indiana University have established a Chair in Philosophy on The Mahlon Powell Foundation. Each year a Visiting Professor will be invited to Jill this Chair.The eighth - lecturer on The Mablon Powell Foundation is Charles E. Merriam. HERMAN B WELLS President, Indiana University CONTENTS Preface ix 7. Public and Private Government 1 A. Similarities of Public and Private Government 1 B. Areas of Conflict 9 C. The Meaning and Interdependence of Public and Private 1 1 . Sovereignty 20 A. Changes in Meaning 20 B. Limitations of Sovereignty 25 C. External Sovereignty 29 D. Trends in Sovereignty 32 . New Meanings of Organization 36 A. Science and Organization 38 B. Sociology and Organization 41 C. Anthropology and Organization 42 D. Economics and Organization 43 E. Political Science and Organization 44 F. Public Administration and Organization 45 G. The Higher Organization of Politics 5O H. Conclusions 53 IV. Democracy and Organization 61 A. Obstacles 62 1 . The Size of the Community 62 2. The Fear of Power 63 3. The Problem of Efficiency 66 B. Elements of Progress 69 1. Administrative Management on a Democratic Basis 69 2. The Rise of Democratic Planning 69 3. The Growth of Democratic Education 70 4. The Growth of Democratic Manners and Customs 71 C. Democracy and World Problems 72 1. The Organization of a Jural Order 72 2. The Organization of the Economic Process 73 3. Democracy and the Human Personality 75 PREFACE THESE lectures were given at Indiana University, March 21-25, 1943, under the auspices of the Powell Foundation, by the writer as Visiting Professor of Phi losophy. I am sure the regular philosophers looked upon me with some suspicion, which however was completely masked by their cordiality and good will. tbe lines of reflection here traced are parts of a larger work on Systematic Politics which the writer plans to complete at anearly date. As this plan runs back to 1907, it may of course be discounted, but not too heavily, as the paper will be redeemed unless God and nature exercise their constitutional veto upon my intentions. C. E. M. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOVERNMENT I PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOVERNMENT Similarities of Public and Private Government THIS study was originally planned as the joint project of a professor and a merchant prince. My collabora tor was to be Dr...