%0 Journal Article
%T An¨ªbal Bascu ¨¢n and Hispanic American Administrative Thinking
%A Omar Guerrero Orozco
%J Revista de Gesti¨®n P¨²blica
%D 2012
%I Centro de Gesti¨®n P¨²blica
%X The article examines the administrative thinking of An¨ªbal Bascu ¨¢n Vald¨¦s, derived from the analysis of his book Elementos de Ciencia de la Administraci¨®n P¨²blica (1963). It highlights the value of Bascu ¨¢n to the intellectual history of the discipline, for being the first Hispanic American thinker who without hesitation supported the autonomous status of public administration and for conceiving it as scientific knowledge under an ontic approach, where his being is endowed with an identity and able to develop principles. It is concluded that the work of Bascu ¨¢n is one of the most developed within the discipline during the 1960s,above all because it considers public administration as an autonomous science and social science.
%K Public administration
%K Public administration theory
%K Intellectual history
%K Latin American thinking
%U http://www.revistadegestionpublica.cl/Vol_%20I_%20No_1/Guerrero.pdf