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1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index. |
Contents |
The question -- Values, facts, and the problem of moralism -- Thinking, doing, and the problem of rationalism -- Ends, means, and the problem of managerialism -- Theory, practice, and the problem of technicism -- Rewriting public administration's final exam. |
Summary |
Examines why public administration & rsquo;s literature has failed to justify the profession & rsquo;s legitimacy as an instrument of governance. Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first & ldquo;written & rdquo; in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field & rsquo;s answers to the legitimacy question. Because the assumptions that underwrite the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the exam should be canceled and its question rewritten. Envisaging a public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy question, Harmon explains how the study and practic. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Public administration -- United States.
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Public administration. |
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United States. |
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Civil service -- United States.
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Civil service. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Harmon, Michael M., 1941- Public administration's final exam. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006 081731539X 9780817315399 (DLC) 2006008284 (OCoLC)64624946 |
ISBN |
9780817381356 (electronic book) |
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081738135X (electronic book) |
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081731539X (alkaline paper) |
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9780817315399 (alkaline paper) |
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