Woodrow Wilson: New Political Leader

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I feel it important when you work through the impact of new political leader it is important to know their “values, beliefs assumptions, perceptions, norms, artifacts, and patterns of behavior”, (pg246) when you are getting a new political leader. The society and county need to know what this person stand for and what the person plan are for their society. I feel that theorist Woodrow Wilson is able to help and guide the new political leader by this state that Woodrow Wilson said, “that the field of administration is a field of business”. I feel that this statement, Woodrow Wilson would chance the politics from been in such a hurry and politics, would be ran in a better way to accommodate the citizens. The new political leader need to have

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