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Making a difference : progressive values in public administration /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Box, Richard C.
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 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"
  • References
  • Index
  • About the author.