
Rethinking Administrative Theory
The Challenge of the New Century
Jong S. Jun(Author)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 30. October 2001
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-275-97248-6 (ISBN)
Description
Striving to redirect the study of public administration toward innovation and imagination, deliberative democracy, knowledge transfer, policy making, and ethics and values--topics which for too long have been overshadowed by traditional problems of efficency, productivity, and instrumental-rational solutions--this book of diverse essays is certain to invigorate both scholarship and practice. Eighteen leading international scholars evaluate public administration's historical development and explore the significance and value trends in public administration from a variety of cutting-edge theoretical and practical perspectives.
Aimed at students and practitioners alike, this collection of essays is certain to stimulate critical thinking and discussion of public administration's aims, mechanisms, and overall effectiveness, as well as the role it plays in democratizing countries.
Aimed at students and practitioners alike, this collection of essays is certain to stimulate critical thinking and discussion of public administration's aims, mechanisms, and overall effectiveness, as well as the role it plays in democratizing countries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
687 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-97248-6 (9780275972486)
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Person
JONG S. JUN is Professor of Public Administration at California State University, Hayward.
Content
Preface Introduction: Administrative Theory in the New Century The Need for Rethinking Introduction Moving on (Legitimacy is Over): Millennial Consciousness and Its Potential by O.C. McSwite The Hegemony of the Consumer, Administration, and Management at the End of the Century by Yiannis Gabriel "Future Challenges in Organization Theory?" Amnesia and the Production of Ignorance by Martin Parker Public Administration and Postmodern Conditions: Some American Pointers to Research after the Year 2000 by Peter Bogason Challenges in Public Service, Values, and Ethics Introduction Public Service as the Parable of Democracy by Louis C. Gawthrop A Democratic Public and Administrative Thought: A Public Perspective by Curtis Ventriss Value Pluralism in Public Administration: Two Perspectives on Administrative Morality by Hendrick Wagenaar Passionate Humility: Toward a Philosophy of Ethical Will by Dvora Yanow and Hugh Willmott Challenges in Organizations Introduction The Demise and Foreseeable Come-Back of Public Administration by Francesco P. Cerase Embracing Organized Disorder: The Future of Organizational Membership by Michael A. Diamond Changing Paradigms for Public Service by Thomas Clarke and Stewart Clegg Back to the Future: The 21st Century and the Loss of Sensibility by Ralph Hummel Challenges in Administrative Reform and Policymaking Introduction Reconciling Public Ethics and Business Norms: A Future Challenge to Administrative Theory by M. Shamsul Haque Administrative Reformers in a Global World: Diagnosis, Prescription, and the Limits of Transferability by David H. Rosenbloom De-Institutionalizing "Group Think": From State Welfarism and Towards Cyber-Netizinship in the "Smart State" by Alexander Kouzmin and Alan Jarman Deliberative Democracy, Disourse, and New Governance Introduction Studies of Deliberative Practice: From Critical Theory to Oral History and Back Again by John Forester The Discourses of Anti-Administation by David John Farmer New Governance in Civil Society: Changing Responsibility of Public Administration by Jong S. Jun Subject Index