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Foundations of public administration : an essay in its paradigms /
In the course of the last century, fundamental changes occurred in the relationship between public administration and politics. This book describes in which ways and to what extent the public administration discipline aims to shape this fundamental relation by analyzing the paradigmatic foundations...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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.The Hague :
Eleven International Publishing,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Prologue; 1 Paradigms in Public Administration; 1.1 The Meaning of 'Public Administration'; 1.2 Public Administration as a Borrowing Discipline; 1.3 Paradigms as Conceptual Lenses; 1.4 The Late Development of Public Administration Paradigms; 1.5 The Politics-Administration Relation as a Practical and Theoretical Problem; 2 Public Administrationas a Submissive Instrument of Politics; 2.1 Wilson's Introduction of a 'Foreign Science'; 2.2 Max Weber's Elaborations on the Paradigm; 3 Public Administration as an 'Outsourceable'Policy Production System.
- 3.1 Policies and Administration from a Systems Perspective3.2 Systems Approach and the Make-ability of Society(the 1960s); 3.3 Paradigmatic Problems and Solutions: a Case Study; 3.4 Public Sector Management Systems and Ethics; 4 Demand and Supply Paradigm of Public Administration; 4.1 Public Choice Theory: An Optimistic and a Pessimistic Scenario; 4.2 Solutions to the Problems as Viewed Through the Paradigmatic Lens; 4.3 'Re-inventing Government' and Other Practical Proposals; 4.4 Exogenous and Endogenous Criticism of the Demand and Supply Paradigm.
- 5 The Modernist Paradigm: Public Administration as Scientification of Politics5.1 Rational Science and Irrational Politics; 5.2 Policy Theory as the Core of Policy Sciences and Policy Analysis; 5.3 Problems and Solutions Suggested by the Modernistic Paradigm; 5.4 The Infinite Quest for (Scientific) Rationality; 6 Public Administration ina Multirational Perspective: a Post-Modern Paradigm; 6.1 A Four-Rationality Model of Public Administration and Politics; 6.2 The Rivalry Between the Four Rationalities; 6.3 Distinguishing Properties of the Post-modernistic Paradigm; 6.4 Some Tentative Solutions.