Public administration's final exam [[electronic resource] ] : a pragmatist restructuring of the profession and the discipline / / Michael M. Harmon

• Autore: Harmon Michael M. <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 351.73
• Soggetto topico: Public administration - United States; Civil service - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Public administration's final exam
• ISBN: 0-8173-8135-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778241603321
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