Notes on the Romulan Reform of Conventions
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 328-331
ISSN: 1537-5935
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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 328-331
ISSN: 1537-5935
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 75, Heft 1, S. 15-24
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 75, Heft 1, S. 15-24
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 75, Heft 1, S. 15-24
ISSN: 1540-6210
AbstractHerbert Simon, in his 1946 essay "The Proverbs of Administration," indicted public administration as having conflicting and contradictory theories and an absence of a knowledge base that could provide a guide to practice. Simon proposed that public administration define concepts, adopt efficiency as its objective, focus on the study of decision making, and construct models that could predict efficient results. This 75th‐anniversary article revisits Simon's essay in light of contemporary public administration. It examines the progress that has been made and what still needs to be accomplished, and it ends with a list of barriers to further progress.
In: International public management journal, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 464-467
ISSN: 1559-3169
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 70, Heft s1
ISSN: 1540-6210
Luther Gulick was both an academic and a reformer. In the latter role, he thought seriously about what the future of public administration might look like. This essay examines his work as a lens through which to view the future of public administration in 2020. Gulick suggests that public administration needs a governance orientation to link scholarship with the realities of practice, a recognition of the bias of structures, a stress on the informal elements of organization, additional research on almost every question, a recognition of the importance of ethics, a stress on the importance of context, and a fundamental appreciation of the role that public management plays in fostering democracy.
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 70, S. s284-s291
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 5-11
ISSN: 1541-0072
The field of policy theory abounds with numerous theories, with each theory having a set of practitioners that are working independently of the others. Resolving conflicts among policy theories as a result is difficult. This essay has a more modest goal of posing some questions and suggesting some avenues for future research. Key points include defining the purpose of policy theory, incorporating management into our theories, making strategic choices about areas of study, addressing the parsimony‐comprehensiveness tradeoff, and providing a more nuanced role for institutions.
In: International review of public administration: IRPA ; journal of the Korean Association for Public Administration, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 1-10
ISSN: 2331-7795
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 626
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 3-9
The purpose of the John Gaus Award and Lectureship is to recognize "scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration." That tradition has a long and honorable history. Many of the presidents of the American Political Science Association were scholars of public administration (Frank J. Goodnow, Woodrow Wilson, W. W. Willoughby, Leonard White, Luther Gulick, Pendleton Herring, Emmette S. Redford, Carl J. Friedrich, James Q. Wilson, and Matthew Holden, Jr.) and several others made contributions to the literature (V. O. Key, Jr., Charles S. Hyneman, Robert A. Dahl, Aaron Wildavsky, and Elinor Ostrom). Yet a visitor from another planet studying political science and public administration might conclude that these tribes have evolved into two distinct species. Prepared for presentation as the John Gaus Distinguished Lecture, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1, 2006, Philadelphia. I would like to thank Paul Brace, George Krause, Alisa Hicklin, Larry O'Toole, Jim Rogers, and Michael Thies for their assistance.
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 626-627
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 3-10
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: Administrative theory & praxis: ATP ; a quarterly journal of dialogue in public administration theory, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 650-668
ISSN: 1949-0461
In: Administrative theory & praxis: ATP ; a quarterly journal of dialogue in public administration theory, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 650-668
ISSN: 1084-1806