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Justice and public administration / Charles F. Abel and Arthur J. Sementelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abel, Charles F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Justice.
- Public administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Justice and Administration is an ambitious effort to grapple with justice as a theoretical component of the practice of public administration, yet with sufficient theoretical power to be meaningful in philosophy, political studies, and sociology. The time is ripe for such an effort, as the questions that gather under the labels of modernity, the postmodern and critical theory now transcend a single discipline. The work of John Rawls on justice in public life has had a generation of influence on scholarship, and this work seems to have a high degree of likeli
- Contents:
- Precis
- Epistemology
- The meaning of justice within America's broad social context
- Justice and organizations
- The postmodern condition and semiotic justice
- Critiquing and contextualizing justice
- Semiotic justice and public administration.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-124) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8028-0
- OCLC:
- 183207162
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