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Susan T. Gooden, PhD
Professor, Public Administration
Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States
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Conferences held every 20 years beginning in 1968
Designed to assess where the field of public administration is going and where it needs to go
Has an intentional impact on the intellectual development of public administration
A generational narrative within public administration
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Led by Dwight Waldo, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA
Lens by which the learning and exchange of new knowledge may be evaluated (Kim, et.al 2010)
Non-scripted; ad hoc discussion groups form as conference unfolds
Held over 2-3 days in the remote Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York
Group of 35-40 “best and brightest” “rising stars”
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Set within an important U.S. social context (Vietnam War, The Great Society, civil rights, protests); Era of big government
Group of 34 young public administration male scholars who were trained as political scientists
Quest for relevancy
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Major intellectual contribution
Five normative core values
Rejects the idea of public administrators as value neutral
Identifies core values of public administration
Wrestles with conflicting views of the field
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Mixture of original “Minnows” and younger scholars
50% female
Overall less controversial and less influential than Minnowbrook I
Public administration as independent discipline
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General focus Specific themes
Challenges to the legitimacy of government
“Scientific” tools vs. art of administration
More risk-adverse group of academics
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Controversial election of President Bush Post 9-11 attacks Natural disasters Eve of election of first African-American
nominee for President, Barack Obama Two parts (original for younger scholars);
conference for mixture Included 30 veterans of Minnowbrook I or II
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General focus Specific themes
Global context
Future search of public administration
Governmental capacity gaps in addressing public problems
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Quest for relevance
Academic publications following Minnowbrook (books and academic journals)
Important misses (inclusion of economics; reinventing government)
The Minnowbrook experience
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Is this a useful approach for public administration scholars in other countries to consider?
Will it foster a greater understanding of the complexity of public administration globally?
Might it provide an important comparative 20 year generational assessment from young scholars in public administration?
Is the Minnowbrook concept of interest to public administrator academics in Korea?