Public administration's final exam : a pragmatist restructuring of the profession and the discipline /

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Examines why public administration's literature has failed to justify the profession's legitimacy as an instrument of governance. Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first "written" in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field's answers to the legi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harmon, Michael M., 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Public administration > United States.
Civil service > United States.
Administration publique (Science) > États-Unis.
Fonction publique > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Executive Branch.
Civil service.
Public administration.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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