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

"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 legitimacy question. Because the assumptions that underwrite the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the exam should b...

Πλήρης περιγραφή

Πρώτος συγγραφέας: Harmon, Michael M., 1941-
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα: English
Άλλες Λεπτομέρειες Έκδοσης: Tuscaloosa, AL :, University of Alabama Press,, c2006.
Θέματα/Λέξεις Κλειδιά:
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1. The question
  • 2. Values, facts, and the problem of moralism
  • 3. Thinking, doing, and the problem of rationalism
  • 4. Ends, means, and the problem of managerialism
  • 5. Theory, practice, and the problem of technicism
  • 6. Rewriting public administration's final exam.