The social construction of public administration : interpretive and critical perspectives / / Jong S. Jun ; foreword by Frank P. Sherwood
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Jun Jong S
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| Titolo: |
The social construction of public administration : interpretive and critical perspectives / / Jong S. Jun ; foreword by Frank P. Sherwood
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.2/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public administration - Social aspects |
| Public administration - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-291) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""The Social Construction of Public Administration""; ""Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""1. Introduction""; ""THE LIMITATIONS OF MODERN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION""; ""SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION IN A DEMOCRATIC CONTEXT""; ""DIALECTICAL POSSIBILITIES""; ""LEARNING FROM A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE""; ""THE ORIENTATION OF THIS BOOK""; ""2. The Changing Context of Public Administration""; ""UNANTICIPATED CONSEQUENCES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY""; ""LESSONS FOR THE NEW CENTURY""; ""REINTERPRETING THE MEANING OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION""; ""DIALECTIC IN ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION""; ""CONCLUSION"" |
| ""3. The Social Constructionist Approach""""THE LIMITATIONS OF THE FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE""; ""THE INTERPRETIVE, CRITICAL THEORY,AND POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES""; ""THEORIZING THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH""; ""GLOBALIZATION AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION""; ""REFLECTION""; ""4. Public Administration as Social Design""; ""THE USE AND ABUSE OF METAPHOR""; ""DESIGN: A BASIC CONCEPT""; ""ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE, ART, AND SOCIAL DESIGN""; ""THE MODES OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND POLICY DESIGN""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""5. Social Design in Practice""; ""CO-PRODUCTION AND COMMUNITY POLICING"" | |
| ""BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN SILICON VALLEY""""DESIGNING THE PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM""; ""HELPING HOMELESSNESS""; ""THE CLINTON HEALTH CARE REFORM PLAN:FROM SOCIAL DESIGN TO INCREMENTALISM""; ""THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL DESIGN""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""6. Understanding Action, Praxis, and Change""; ""THE DIALECTIC OF ORGANIZATIONAL ACTION""; ""PRAXIS AND CHANGE""; ""THE PRAXIS-ORIENTED ADMINISTRATORS""; ""CHANGING ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTION RESEARCH""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""7. The Self in Social Construction""; ""SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF:EASTERN AND WESTERN VIEWS"" | |
| ""THE SELF AND SOCIALITY: WESTERN VIEWS""""POSTMODERN VIEWS OF THE SELF""; ""IMPLICATIONS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN VIEWS""; ""THE SELF-REFLEXIVE INDIVIDUAL IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT""; ""THE SELF IN BUREAUCRACY""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""8. The Social Construction of Ethical Responsibility""; ""THE ETHICAL DILEMMA OF THE RESPONSIBLE ADMINISTRATOR""; ""CONSTRUCTING ETHICS IN ORGANIZATIONS""; ""A PUBLIC CONCEPTION OF AUTONOMY:CONFUCIAN AND WESTERN VIEWS""; ""CIVIC VIRTUE AND THE PUBLIC GOOD""; ""CONNECTING ADMINISTRATORS AND CITIZENS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""9. Civil Society, Governance,and Its Potential"" | |
| ""THE CIVIL SOCIETY TRIANGLE:A NEW FORM OF GOVERNANCE""""FROM HIERARCHICAL GOVERNING TO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE""; ""NGOs AS A FORCE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE""; ""A CASE OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE:RESOLVING THE SOUP KITCHEN CONTROVERSY""; ""DESIGNING MODERN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS""; ""GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION:A CONTRADICTION""; ""IMPLICATIONS""; ""10. Concluding Thoughts""; ""RECAPITULATION""; ""MAKING SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION EFFECTIVE""; ""THE TAO OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION""; ""Notes ""; ""References ""; ""Index ""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M"" | |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | In this conceptual guided tour of contemporary public administration, Jong S. Jun challenges the limitations of the discipline which, he argues, make it inadequate for understanding today's complex human phenomena. Drawing on examples and case studies from both Eastern and Western countries, he emphasizes critical and interpretive perspectives as a counterforce to the instrumental-technical rationality that reduces the field to structural and functionalist views of management. He also emphasizes the idea of democratic social construction to transcend the field's reliance on conventional pluralist politics. Jun stresses that public administrators and institutions must create opportunities for sharing and learning among organizational members and must facilitate interactive processes between public administrators and citizens so that the latter can voice their problems and opinions. The future role of public administrators will be to transcend the limitations of the management and governing of modern public administration and to explore ways of constructing socially meaningful alternatives through communicative action and the participation of citizens. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The social construction of public administration |
| ISBN: | 9780791481899 |
| 0791481891 | |
| 9781429411820 | |
| 1429411821 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910961976603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series in public administration.