The founders, the Constitution, and public administration : a conflict in worldviews /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spicer, Michael W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Public administration > United States > History.
Political science > United States > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
Administration publique (Science) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
Constitutional history
Political science
Public administration
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the uneasy status of public administration
  • The lack of legitimacy of public administration
  • Why worry about legitimacy?
  • Public administration and the U.S. Constitution
  • Critics of the Constitution
  • The importance of worldviews
  • The purpose of this work
  • The relevance of this work
  • Rationalist and anti-rationalist worldviews
  • The rationalist worldview
  • Rationalist thought
  • The anti-rationalist worldview
  • Anti-rationalist thought
  • The worldviews of public administration and the Constitution
  • Rationalism and public administration: the early writers
  • Rationalism and public administration: contemporary writers
  • Anti-rationalism and the founders
  • On the checking of power: the logic of a constitution
  • Interests
  • Passions
  • Unintended exploitation
  • Majority rule
  • The use of knowledge
  • Visions of public administration
  • "Discretionists" and "Instrumentalists": the Friedrich argument
  • The finer argument.

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