Editing Alexander Hamilton (section)

===Public administration===
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Political theorists credit Hamilton with the creation of the modern administrative state, citing his arguments in favor of a strong executive, linked to the electoral support of the people, as the linchpin of an administrative republic.<ref name=Green2002>{{cite journal |last=Green |first=Richard T. |title=Alexander Hamilton: Founder of the American Public Administration |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_administration-society_2002-11_34_5/page/541 |journal=Administration & Society |volume=34 |issue=5 |date=November 2002 |pages=541–562 |doi=10.1177/009539902237275 |s2cid=145232233}}</ref>{{sfn |Derthick |1999 |p=122}} The dominance of executive leadership in the formulation and carrying out of policy was, in Hamilton's view, essential to resist the deterioration of a [[Representative democracy|republican]] government.<ref>Harvey Flaumenhaft, "Hamilton's Administrative Republic and the American Presidency", in Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey Tulis, ''The Presidency in the Constitutional Order'' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981)</ref> As evidence of Hamilton's global influence, some scholars have compared Hamilton's recommendations to the development of [[Meiji Japan]].<ref>Austin, pp. 261–262.</ref>