Making a difference : progressive values in public administration / / Richard C. Box
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| Autore: |
Box Richard C.
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| Titolo: |
Making a difference : progressive values in public administration / / Richard C. Box
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (148 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 172/.20973 |
| 172.20973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Public administration - United States |
| Social values - United States | |
| Progressivism (United States politics) | |
| Note generali: | First published 2008 by M.E. Sharpe. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface -- The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice" -- References -- Index -- About the author. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This inspirational work encourages Public Administration professionals to praticipate in progressive social change by advocating progressive values to counter the regressive values currently dominant in American society. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making a difference |
| ISBN: | 1-317-46570-9 |
| 1-315-70272-X | |
| 1-317-46571-7 | |
| 1-282-11968-0 | |
| 9786612119682 | |
| 0-7656-2454-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820737703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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