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If we are to succeed in crafting appropriate solutions to prevent abuses of administrative discretion, we must pay serious attention to three major perspectives that shape the exercise of administrative authority: the perspective of lawmakers, who create at least four different kinds of discretion; the perspective of clients, who may suffer from one or more of five major forms of administrative abuse; and the perspective of practitioners, who are influenced in varying ways by the moral propensities of the work setting. The article concludes with a brief discussion and illustration of how these multiple perspectives need to be taken into account when devising solutions to prevent various abuses of administrative discretion.

An exhilarating breath of fresh air has blown into the musty halls of political theory with the publication of Robert Dahl's Walgreen lectures, A Preface to Democratic Theory. We now know that discussion of minority rights and majority rule can be carried on with lucidity and serious attention to some of the intriguing intellectual puzzles which arise, as well as with reasonable rigor and a genuinely remarkable economy of expression.For all his clarity and conciseness, however, Professor Dahl has paid a fourfold philosophical price:1. His case against "Madisonian" democracy is procedural and perhaps more peripheral than profound.2. The neo-Spinozistic endeavor to formalize political ideology appears premature.3. His confessed epistemological perplexity over the ground of "intensity" judgments is peculiar.4. His refusal to wrestle with ethical issues—a refusal he shares with most "empirically oriented" political scientists—leaves them not only open and unresolved, but even unexplored. Yet, in an important sense, these issues seem to be the central ones.Following Dahl's example, I shall try to set forth these caveats as concisely as possible, leaving aside qualifications and positive theory construction.

1. The foundations of new public governance / Douglas F. Morgan and Craig W. Shinn -- 2. Why a constitutional approach matters for advancing new public governance / Stephanie P. Newbold -- 3. Institutional history and new public governance / Richard T. Green -- 4. A value-based global framework for new public governance / Douglas F. Morgan. [et al.] -- 5. History as a source of values for new public governance / Donald P. Moynihan -- 6. Two kinds of rationality and their implications for new public governance / Michael W. Spicer -- 7. The American constitutional legacy and the deliberative democracy environment of new public governance / Vera Vogelsang-Coombs -- 8. Civic capacity assessment framework / Margaret Banyan -- 9. Building capacity in culturally diverse communities through community engagement in hard times / Claudia Maria Vargas -- 10. Forging vertical and horizontal integration in public administration leadership and management / Gary L. Larsen -- 11. Civic infrastructure and capacity building : lessons from the field / Don Bohn -- 12. Local government as polity leadership : implications for new public governance / Kent S. Robinson and Douglas F. Morgan -- 13. Interest-based deliberative democracy in natural resource management / Debra Whitall. [et al.] -- 14. Multilevel environmental governance of conservation programs / Shpresa Halimi and Craig W. Shinn -- 15. Regime leadership for public servants / Brian J. Cook -- 16. Competing needs, expectations, and realities in local government education / Phillip J. Cooper -- 17. Agency in networks : implications for theory and practice in the new public governance / Eric T. (Rick) Mogren -- 18. EMERGE : public leadership for sustainable development / Kristen Magis, Marcus Ingle, and Ngo Huy Duc -- 19. Preparing the next generation for local government leadership / Scott Lazenby -- 20. Educating leaders for new public governance : public administration as a liberal art / Douglas F. Morgan -- 21. Rethinking U.S. public administration doctoral education in the age of new public governance / Stephanie P. Newbold and David H. Rosenbloom -- 22. Educating for new public governance : civic engagement and the liberal arts / Kevin Kecskes, Masami Nishishiba, and Douglas F. Morgan -- 23. Epilogue : research questions to improve the theory and practice of NPG / Douglas F. Morgan, Craig W. Shinn and Brian J. Cook.