A fundamental assumption of administrative reformers in the late 1800s and early 1900s was that politics could have only adverse affects on administration. how valid is that belief? why? how, and to what extent, do current administrative structures and practices reflect that assumption? also discuss the contributions made by Woodrow Wilson, F.W. Willoughby, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick, and Herbert Simon to the development of public administration as a discipline.