| Description |
1 online resource (x, 137 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-130) and index. |
| Contents |
The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice." |
| Summary |
This inspirational work encourages Public Administration professionals to praticipate in progressive social change by advocating progressive values to counter the regressive values currently dominant in American society. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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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Social values -- United States.
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Social values. |
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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Progressivism (United States politics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Box, Richard C. Making a difference. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2008 0765622874 (DLC) 2008002190 (OCoLC)191207221 |
| ISBN |
9780765624543 |
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0765624540 |
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0765622874 (cloth) |
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9780765622877 (cloth) |
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0765622882 (paperback) |
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9780765622884 (paperback) |
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1282119680 |
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9781282119680 |
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9780765622877 |
| Standard No. |
9786612119682 |
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