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Author Harmon, Michael M., 1941-

Title Public administration's final exam : a pragmatist restructuring of the profession and the discipline / Michael M. Harmon.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Public administration -- United States.
Public administration.
United States.
Civil service -- United States.
Civil service.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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)
081738135X (electronic book)
081731539X (alkaline paper)
9780817315399 (alkaline paper)