Suchergebnisse

Is public administration so effective that, as William Poole once wrote, ""it is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent""? (FAM 2014) This favorable view on policy and implementation can be contrasted with an opposing view by Thomas Sowell, who warned that ""you will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing."" (FAM 2014a) Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), public administration (in relation to policy and implementation) ar

Are sports really supposed to be so competitive that, as Henry R. Sanders once famously said, ""Men, I''ll be honest. Winning is...the only thing!""? (WK 2012) This competitive view of sports can be contrasted with a critical view by William Shakespeare, who wrote in Othello (Act. iv. Sc. 1), ""They laugh that win."" (BART 2012) Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones, as will be discussed in the book), sports (in relation to both training and winning) are neither possible (or impossible)

Is positive thinking really so healthy that, as Martin Seligman (2000) and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi passionately thus argued, ""we believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise, which achieves a scientific understanding and effective interventions to build thriving individuals, families, and communities""? This optimistic view on positive thinking for health can be contrasted with an opposing view by Barbara Ehrenreich (2009), who ""extensively critiqued 'positive psychology'"" and showed ""how obsessive positive thinking impedes productive action, causes delusional assessm

Is history really so universalistic (even when similar events happen in different contexts) that, as George Santayana (1905) once famously wrote, ""[t]hose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it""? This more universalistic view of history