Foundations of public administration : an essay in its paradigms / I.Th.M. Snellen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snellen, I. Th. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hague, Netherlands : Eleven International Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the course of the last century, fundamental changes occurred in the relationship between public administration and politics. This book describes in which ways and to what extent the public administration discipline aims to shape this fundamental relation by analyzing the paradigmatic foundations of the discipline. The various paradigms adopted by different groups in the public administration discipline at different points in time determine for a large part the nature of problems to be tackled and the solution procedures that may be considered. Therefore, as discussed in the book, a clear in

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Prologue; 1 Paradigms in Public Administration; 1.1 The Meaning of 'Public Administration'; 1.2 Public Administration as a Borrowing Discipline; 1.3 Paradigms as Conceptual Lenses; 1.4 The Late Development of Public Administration Paradigms; 1.5 The Politics-Administration Relation as a Practical and Theoretical Problem; 2 Public Administrationas a Submissive Instrument of Politics; 2.1 Wilson's Introduction of a 'Foreign Science'; 2.2 Max Weber's Elaborations on the Paradigm; 3 Public Administration as an 'Outsourceable'Policy Production System

3.1 Policies and Administration from a Systems Perspective3.2 Systems Approach and the Make-ability of Society(the 1960s); 3.3 Paradigmatic Problems and Solutions: a Case Study; 3.4 Public Sector Management Systems and Ethics; 4 Demand and Supply Paradigm of Public Administration; 4.1 Public Choice Theory: An Optimistic and a Pessimistic Scenario; 4.2 Solutions to the Problems as Viewed Through the Paradigmatic Lens; 4.3 'Re-inventing Government' and Other Practical Proposals; 4.4 Exogenous and Endogenous Criticism of the Demand and Supply Paradigm

5 The Modernist Paradigm: Public Administration as Scientification ofPolitics5.1 Rational Science and Irrational Politics; 5.2 Policy Theory as the Core of Policy Sciences and Policy Analysis; 5.3 Problems and Solutions Suggested by the Modernistic Paradigm; 5.4 The Infinite Quest for (Scientific) Rationality; 6 Public Administration ina Multirational Perspective: a Post-Modern Paradigm; 6.1 A Four-Rationality Model of Public Administration and Politics; 6.2 The Rivalry Between the Four Rationalities; 6.3 Distinguishing Properties of the Post-modernistic Paradigm; 6.4 Some Tentative Solutions

EpilogueLiterature; Author Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 18, 2014).

ISBN:

94-6094-943-6

9789460949432

OCLC:

881457933