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Refounding Democratic Public Administration
Modern Paradoxes, Postmodern Challenges
Edited by:
- James F. Wolf - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Other Titles in:
Public Policy & Public Administration
Public Policy & Public Administration
416 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The contributors to this volume contend that the North American political system is undergoing a serious governmental crisis - political leaders know only how to campaign, not how to gain consensus on goals or direct a course that is to the good of the nation. Public administration is therefore forced to compensate for the growing inadequacy of the `leaders', and with a normative-based body of theorizing, perform its key role of governance within a democratic system of polycentric power.
The book offers a revisualization of the relationship between public servants and the citizens they serve, and a continuing discourse on how public administration can constructively balance forces of change and stability in order for democracy to evolve and mature.
Gary L Wamsley and James F Wolf
Introduction
Richard T Green and Lawrence Hubbell
On Governance and Reinventing Government
Larkin Dudley
Fencing in the Inherently Governmental Debate
Joy A Clay
Public-Institutional Processes and Democratic Governance
John A Rohr
What a Difference a State Makes
James F Wolf
Moving beyond Prescriptions
Thomas J Barth
Administering in the Public Interest
O C McSwite
Postmodernism, Public Administration and the Public Interest
Larry M Lane
The Public Administration and the Problem of the Presidency
Camilla Stivers
Refusing to Get It Right
Lisa Weinberg
Understanding Social Processes
Linda F Dennard
The Maturation of Public Administration
John H Little
Thinking Government
Gary L Wamsley
A Public Philosophy and Ontological Disclosure as the Basis for Normatively Grounded Theorizing in Public Administration