Explain the inter-relationship of public administration accountability, performa

Explain the inter-relationship of public administration accountability, performance, and politics.
Reflect on the historic roots of the above themes.
Discuss how these themes have evolved over time and what we can learn from it.
The discipline of public administration as we know it in the United States dates back to the Woodrow Wilson’s article “The Study of Public Administration” published in 1887. His call for a scientific study of the discipline, separation of politics and administration, applying business-like practices towards public administration operations, and merit-based assessment of civil servants was widely supported by both practitioners and academics.
Therefore, politics-administration dichotomy was the first but not the only debate within the discipline that also led its development.
Appleby (1945) said that government is different because government is politics. There is no scientific way to separate one from the other.
According to Kettl (2020) the American people have the expectation that government will solve problems. In order to do so, government must coordinate with partners through complex systems. Deciding what to do and how to do it invites politics as different values and priorities come into play. Yet throughout the process there is the expectation by the people that government will be effective, efficient, and accountable. Americans are suspicious about the exercise of political power yet they expect efficiency, effectiveness, and equity from their government.
Politics, administration, and the quest for accountability rings true to this day.