The future of post-human public administration. Volume 1 : towards a new theory of policy and implementation / by Peter Baofu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baofu, Peter, author.

Series:

World Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Management.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is public administration so effective that, as William Poole once wrote, ""it is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent""? (FAM 2014) This favorable view on policy and implementation can be contrasted with an opposing view by Thomas Sowell, who warned that ""you will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing."" (FAM 2014a) Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), public administration (in relation to policy and implementation) ar

Contents:

""The Future of Post-Human Public Administration: Towards a New Theory of Policy and Implementation. Volume 1""; ""The Future of Post-Human Public Administration: Towards a New Theory of Policy and Implementation. Volume 1""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""BOOKS ALSO BY PETER BAOFU""; ""CONTENTS""; ""TABLES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""PART ONE: Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION�THE FUNCTION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION""; ""A Dispute on Bureaucracy""; ""Definition and History of Public Administration""

""Policy and Implementation in Public Administration""""Diverse Aspects of Public Administration""; ""The Theoretical Debate""; ""The Tensional Theory of Public Administration""; ""Theory and Meta-Theory""; ""The Logic of Existential Dialectics""; ""Sophisticated Methodological Holism""; ""Chapter Outline""; ""Some Clarifications""; ""PART TWO: Policy""; ""CHAPTER 2: POLICY AND ITS DUALITY""; ""The Rationalness of Policy""; ""Policy and the Mind""; ""Policy and Nature""; ""Policy and Society""; ""Policy and Culture""; ""The Irrationalness of Policy""; ""Blank Page""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2015).

ISBN:

1-63463-465-9

OCLC:

898892927