Rethinking Administrative Theory - The Challenge of the New Century

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

JONG S. JUN is Professor of Public Administration at California State University, Hayward.

Summary

This collection of essays seek to stimulate critical thinking and discussion of public administration's aims, mechanisms and overall effectiveness, as well as the role it plays in democratising countries.

Product details

• Authors: Jong Jun, Jong S. Jun, Jun Jong S.
• Assisted by: Jong S. Jun (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780275972486
• ISBN: 978-0-275-97248-6
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government, Political structure and processes, Central government