Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration

Name: Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration
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ISBN: 9780817354626

ISBN-10: 081735462X

ISBN-13: 9780817354626

Edition: 3rd 2007

Authors: Vincent Ostrom, Barbara Allen

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 10/14/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword



Preface to the Third Edition



The Crisis of Confidence


The Persistent Crisis in the Study of Public Administration


The Crisis as a Paradigm Problem


The Paradigm Problem in Public Administration



The Intellectual Mainstream in American Public Administration


Wilson's Point of Departure


Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy


The Research Tradition in American Public Administration


Gulick's Anomalous Orthodoxy


Simon's Challenge



The Work of the Contemporary Political Economists


Model of Man


Structure of Events


Decision-Making Arrangements



A Theory of Democratic Administration: The Rejected Alternative


Some Anomalous Threads of Thought


Hamilton and Madison's Theory of Democratic Administration


Tocqueville's Analysis of Democratic Administration



The Choice of Alternative Futures


Some Opportunity Costs in the Choice of Paradigm


A Science of Association as Knowledge of Form and Reform


The Use of Different Approaches to Policy Analysis


Conclusion



The Continuing Constitutional Crises in American Government



Watergate as a Crisis in Constitutional Government


Extending Prerogatives and Abandoning Responsibilities


A New Millennium



Intellectual Crises and Beyond



The American Intellectual Crisis


A Copernican Turn?


Challenging Ways of Thinking


Notes


References


Index