Public administration's final exam: a pragmatist restructuring of the profession and the discipline
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1. Verfasser: Harmon, Michael M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2006
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index
The question -- Values, facts, and the problem of moralism -- Thinking, doing, and the problem of rationalism -- Ends, means, and the problem of managerialism -- Theory, practice, and the problem of technicism -- Rewriting public administration's final exam
Examines why public administration & rsquo;s literature has failed to justify the profession & rsquo;s legitimacy as an instrument of governance. Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first & ldquo;written & rdquo; in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field & rsquo;s answers to the legitimacy question. Because the assumptions that underwrite the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the exam should be canceled and its question rewritten. Envisaging a public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy question, Harmon explains how the study and practic
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ISBN:081731539X
081738135X
9780817315399
9780817381356

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