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Harmon Michael M. <1941-> |
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Public administration's final exam [[electronic resource] ] : a pragmatist restructuring of the profession and the discipline / / Michael M. Harmon |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public administration - United States |
Civil service - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Prologue on Adolescence; 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; An Epilogue on Maturity; A Postscript on the Personal/Political Nature of Epistemological Choice; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 1930's, 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 be canceled and its question rewritten. Envisaging a public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy question, Harmon explains how the study and practice |
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