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UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: REFLECTIONS ON AN ACADEMIC OBITUARY —"ALAS, POOR YORICK"
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 233-240
ISSN: 1467-8500
It seemed that "Alas, Poor Yorick" was an appropriate subtitle for this attempt to respond to Understanding Public Administration. Yorick, you will remember, was the deceased royal jester, whose skull Hamlet inspected in the churchyard in Elsinore, causing him to meditate on the vanity of human life. "Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come." Though not a professional jester, I am keenly aware of the ephemeral character of the work of Professors of Government and Public Administration, or at least of this particular one; though Festsehriften may be said to "lay it on thick", they cannot altogether disguise the rather plain face beneath. I am glad to be fortified by having the more distinguished countenance of Robert Parker alongside me, and I mean that.
FASHIONS AND FANTASIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION*
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 12-25
ISSN: 1467-8500
The title of this address results in part from discontent with much of the literature of Public Administration and Public Policy. It is mild discontent, and I do not want unduly to depreciate our writings. But I stop reading many books and articles disappointed, at finding old or obvious ideas restated in new words; at seeing a useful idea refined by scholasticism into complex and empirically untestable propositions; feeling that I am being "got at"; worst of all, with a sense that the work casts only a fitful or elusive light on the important problems it claims to deal with. Schuyler Wallace said years ago when I was starting my academic career that administrative study had been mainly built on the basis of half‐truths and fictions,1 and I believe this is still true. If I had remembered this phrase earlier, I might have called the paper "Half‐Truths and Fictions in Public Administration". If it reflects some real discontents, it is also intended to be a bit jokey. Should the jokes fall flat or degenerate into vulgar abuse, blame the author.
IanTurner, Sydney's Burning (London, Heinemann, 1967), pp xi + 254: $6.75
In: Australian economic history review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business & social history, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 74-75
ISSN: 1467-8446
BAGEHOT ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 311-319
ISSN: 1467-8500
STUDIES IN BUREAUCRACY
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 163-170
ISSN: 1467-8500
REGIONS OR SECTORS?
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 147-149
ISSN: 1467-8500
Cliches and other bad habits in political science
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 3-16
The Study of Organizations
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 387-405
ISSN: 1467-9299
LARGE-SCALE ADMINISTRATION: SOME "PRINCIPLES" AND PROBLEMS
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 204-217
ISSN: 1467-8500
The study of organizations
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 40, S. 387-405
ISSN: 0033-3298
WALLACE WURTH AND PUBLIC SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 259-261
ISSN: 1467-8500
REFLECTIONS ON EFFICIENCY
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 312-320
ISSN: 1467-8500
Parliamentary Salaries: A Report on the Campaign
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 7
ISSN: 1837-1892
Parliamentary salaries: a report on the campaign [carried on by sections of the Australian press against the report recommending increases in salaries and allowances]
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 31, S. 7-15
ISSN: 0005-0091, 1443-3605