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1 online resource (324 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- 1 A Global Reform Movement -- Changes in Public Management -- The Reform Movement -- Characteristics -- And Its Popularity -- Puzzles -- How Global Is Global? -- Administration or Politics? -- Public or Private -- A Specific View on Rules and Regulations -- The Importance of Values -- Practice and the Academic World -- The Structure of This Study -- 2 Public Administration as a Management Science -- The Development of Modern Public Administration -- Principles of Administration -- A Discipline in Discussion -- Management Science Revisited -- Three Characteristics |
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Instrumentalism -- Efficiency as a Hurray Value -- Administration as Business -- Proverbs, Paradigms, Fashions or Doctrines -- Embedded in Political Philosophy -- Continental Attempts -- Influence of the Reform Movement -- Different Ideologies, Values and Preferences -- 3 A Farewell to Politics? -- What Became of a Crucial Distinction -- Controversial Politics -- Loss of Legitimacy -- Transference of Politics -- Professional Administration -- An Active Society -- Changing Patterns of Obedience and Responsibility -- More Than a Contextual Factor -- Entanglement between Politics and the Political |
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A Distinction Redefined -- 4 Government Is a State, Isn't It? -- A Government, But Not a State? -- Meanwhile on the Continent -- About the State -- One State Is Not Another -- Judgments of Performance -- More Than Delivery -- The Uniqueness of the Public Sector -- Public Tasks -- Institutionalized Values -- A Divided House -- Limits of Operation -- The State and Public Administration -- 5 How Public Is Public Administration? -- Introduction -- The Concepts of ""Public"" and ""Publicness -- Public and Private -- What the State Should Do -- Comparing Public and Private Organizations |
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An Unsatisfactory Discussion -- A Constitutional Approach -- Public Interest -- Public Values -- Consequences for Public Administration -- 6 What We Seem to Forget in Modern Public Administration -- Attention for Rules and Regulation -- Relationships between Law and Administration -- More Than Instrumentalism -- Pragmatic -- The Political-Administrative Approach -- Political Philosophy -- The Legal Tradition -- The Democratic Rechtsstaat -- Democracy -- Elements of the Rechtsstaat -- A Central Concept -- What We Should Not Forget -- 7 Is Public Administration about Good Governance? |
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Fuzzy Concepts? -- Governance -- Criticism -- Good According to Which Standards? -- Standards in Discussion -- Conflicting Values -- Good According to and for Whom? -- Just Another Doctrine or a Common Ground? -- 8 Public Administration in a Democracy -- Public Values -- Sources of Values -- Two Types of Values -- Values in Clusters -- Public Administration in a Democracy -- Democratic Citizenship -- The Rechtsstaat -- A Strong Civil Society -- Substantive Values -- And a Necessary Condition: Upright Public Organizations -- Concluding Remarks -- 9 An Intensive Relationship to Practice |
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Introduction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public administration.
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Public administration. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ringeling, Arthur Public Administration As a Study of the Public Sphere : A Normative View Portland : Eleven International Publishing,c2017 9789462367654 |
| ISBN |
9462747253 |
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9789462747258 (electronic book) |
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