Making a difference : progressive values in public administration /
This inspirational work encourages Public Administration professionals to praticipate in progressive social change by advocating progressive values to counter the regressive values currently dominant in American society.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The case for progressive values
- Making a difference
- Regressive and progressive values
- A conceptual framework
- Human behavior
- Immanent critique in the American context
- Describing the value pairs
- Aggressiveness/cooperation
- Belief/knowledge
- Economics as end/economics as means
- Great inequality/limited inequality
- Earth as resource/earth as home
- Practice and change
- The public professional as agent of change
- Creating change in policy and practice
- Gather information and present it to others
- Change how policy is implemented
- Advocate for programs and policies
- Normative teaching and scholarship
- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration
- Against the grain: teaching progressive values
- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions
- Contingent theory
- Analytic approach
- Use of knowledge
- Agency and action
- Toward a progressive public administration
- "Small junctures of theory and practice."