John Stewart: A personal appreciation
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 101, Heft 2, S. 373-375
ISSN: 1467-9299
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In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 101, Heft 2, S. 373-375
ISSN: 1467-9299
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 100, Heft 1, S. 6-11
ISSN: 1467-9299
AbstractThis article reflects on 25 years of editing Public Administration. It provides a brief account of Rod Rhodes's term of office before airing some of his pet bugbears on being an editor and on trends in journal publishing.
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 317-330
ISSN: 1467-8500
This article seeks to broaden the craft of public administration by 'blurring genres'. First, I explain the phrase 'blurring genres'. Second, I provide some examples of early work in administrative ethnography. Third, I compare this early, modernist‐empiricist ethnography with interpretive ethnography, suggesting researchers confront three choices: naturalism vs. anti‐naturalism; intensive vs. hit‐and‐run fieldwork; and generalisation vs. local knowledge. After this general discussion, and fourth, I discuss the more prosaic issues that confront anyone seeking to use ethnography to study public administration and look at fieldwork roles, relevance, time, evidence and fieldwork relationships. Fifth, I describe and illustrate the several tools students of public administration can use as well as observation and interviews; namely, focus groups, para‐ethnography, visual ethnography, and storytelling. Finally, I conclude that ethnographic fieldwork provides texture, depth and nuance, and lets interviewees explain the meaning of their actions. It is an indispensable tool and a graphic example of how to enrich public administration by drawing on the theories and methods of the humanities.
In: Australian journal of public administration: the journal of the Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 317-330
ISSN: 0313-6647
In: Participation: bulletin de l'Association Internationale de science politique : bulletin of the International Political Science Association, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 11-15
ISSN: 0709-6941
In: Political studies review, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 161-176
ISSN: 1478-9302
The British tradition of political life history has six conventions: 'tombstone' biography, separation of public and private lives, life without theory, objective evidence and facts, character and storytelling. I describe each in turn and review the main debates in the tradition before turning to the swingeing critique by 'the interpretive turn'. Postmodernism deconstructed grand narratives by pronouncing the death of the subject and the death of the author. I outline an interpretive approach that reclaims life history by focusing on the idea of 'situated agency': that is, on the webs of significance that people spin for themselves against the backcloth of their inherited beliefs and practices. I explore, with examples, the implications of this approach for writing life history, stressing the different uses for biography open to political scientists. I end with some brief thoughts on why the British tradition of political life history has proved resistant to change. Adapted from the source document.
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 559-571
ISSN: 1540-6210
What intellectual influence, if any, have British public administration scholars had on their American counterparts since World War II? In this article, the author briefly reviews the major areas of theory and research in the British study of publication administration, further identifying important contributions by British scholars in the areas of modernist‐empiricism, the new public management, regulation, policy networks and governance, and interpretive theory. Although there is a discernible American influence on British public administration, there is little British impact on U.S. public administration; nowadays it is a one‐way street. Increasingly, British scholars are involved in a growing community of European public administration scholars with whom they share active, two‐way connections. Recent European developments suggest that American and European public administration academics are growing further apart. Due to the immense strength of modernist‐empiricism throughout American universities, plus the interpretive turn to a European epistemology of "blurred genres," these twin, traditionally self‐referential, communities seem to be parting company with an attendant danger that future intellectual engagement may be a dead end.
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 559-572
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 196-212
ISSN: 1467-9299
This article provides a brief intellectual history of my journey from traditional public administration through modernist‐empiricism to an interpretive approach and its associated research themes; a story of how I got to where I am. I do so to provide the context for a statement of where I stand now and key themes in my research; a story of where I go from here. I have a vaulting ambition: to establish an interpretive approach and narrative explanations in political science, so redefining public policy analysis.
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 196-213
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Public money & management: integrating theory and practice in public management, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 191-194
ISSN: 1467-9302
In: Public policy and administration: PPA, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 437-456
ISSN: 1749-4192
This article argues for research grounded in interpretive theory, or the beliefs and practices of actors, and observational fieldwork, or thick descriptions of what the actors think they are doing. However, discussions of theory and method only come to life when they are grounded in fieldwork. So, at the heart of the article is an account of the Private Offices of British central government departments. I argue that the focus on beliefs and practices enables me to tell a new story. The existing literature does not explore how the individuals who comprise the department's core executive coordinate the department's tasks and resolve conflicts. There is a 'departmental court' that dare not speak its name. By describing the court 'at work', I focus not on individual Private Offices but on the tasks of coordination and conflict resolution at the top of the department. I conclude that any approach that provides new evidence and a novel interpretation makes a strong case for inclusion in the armoury of every student of public administration.
In: The American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 3-25
ISSN: 1552-3357
This article seeks to answer two questions: What do we know about the work of ministers and permanent secretaries? How do we know what we know about ministers and permanent secretaries? To do so, it describes a research project on life at the top of British government departments and discusses the issues raised by trying to do research and write a political anthropology of the daily life of ministers and civil servants. The article has four sections. First, it surveys briefly the existing literature on ministers and top civil servants. Second, it describes the scope and methods of the project. Third, it reports some early findings. Finally, it reflects on the distinctive contribution of ethnographic research to understanding British government and the problems of elite interviewing, nonparticipant observation, and research on the powerful.
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 83, Heft 1, S. 247-248
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 83, Heft 3, S. 760-762
ISSN: 0033-3298