The Science of Public Administration: Three Problems

Dahl, Robert A.

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“…Herbert Simon (1946) and Robert Dahl (1947) ignited controversy about values that echoes to this day. My proposal puts values at the center of the field in ways that address issues first raised by these scholars (Dahl 1947;Meier 2015;Simon 1946;Wright 2015). As noted above, scholars have made demonstrable progress acknowledging and studying values.…”

Section: Public Values Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, public administration's identity is historically embedded in the language and logics of professions and professionalism. Reading classic contributions from Gaus (1936;1947;1950) and Wilson (1887) affirms that the development of public administration professionally was a valued goal within the reform movement.…”

Section: Reaffirming Public Administration's Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead, our attention to professionalism must simultaneously include instrumental and normative dimensions. In many ways, the professionalism focus helps to answer the question about "the place of normative values" raised by Robert Dahl (1947). Dahl's exhortation was:…”

Section: Concept Dimensionalitymentioning

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“…Wright (2015) argued, in his review of the aftermath of Dahl's (1947) assessment of public administration as a science, that scholars have made demonstrable progress acknowledging and studying values. Among the recent research publications that led Wright to his conclusion are Brown, Potoski, and Van Slyke (2006), Rosenbloom (2007), Nabatchi (2012), and Moynihan et al (2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Here it is not the business factor that is of concern, but the loss of the normative discussion that was always present in the humanities and -as they were called -the moral sciences. This was a theme that public administration never gave up debating and to which it regularly returns (WALDO 1948, DAHL 1947, FREDERICKSON 1990WOLF, 1996). For a European standpoint, the text moves to the arguments of Jean-Claude Thoenig (2007).…”

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Bringing the Horizon Back In: The Mid-Range Approach to Organizational Studies

Spink

2015

Rev. Bras. de Est. Organ.

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In recent years there has been a growing discussion of the lack of impact of organizational studies and, amongst other comments, on a drift away from the public sector agenda. Taking as a starting point two recent key addresses by James March and Jean-Claude Thoenig, both directed to organizational studies scholars, this paper seeks to contribute to this debate both in terms of focus and in terms of methodological approach. It argues in favor of a mid-range territorial focus on organizational affairs and to a place based action-investigation approach to methodology. In doing so it draws on the experience of the Center for Public Administration and Government of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo with local level innovation during 1995 -2008 and on a current project on urban vulnerabilities which has been largely shaped by these conclusions.

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Using performance measures for budgeting: A new beat, or is it the same old tune?

Joyce

1997

New Drctns Evaluation

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The challenges that face governments in developing performancebased budgeting systems are described in this chapter; Performancebaed budgeting is placed in the context of past and current performance-based management reforms.Using Performance Measures for Budgeting: A New Beat, or Is It the Same Old Tune?The field of administration is a field of business. It is removed from the hurry and strife of politics. . . , It is the object of administrative study to discover first, what government can properly do, and, secondly, how it can do these proper things with Ehe utmost possible efficiency and the least possible cost either in money or in energy.Woodrow Wilson, 1887 This performance review is not about politics. . , . We want to make improving the way government does business a permanent part of the way government works, regardless of which party is in power.National Performance Review, 1993.The improvement of public administration has been a central concern of political and administrative reformers for well over one hundred years. The "reinventing government" movement, which has as one of its centerpieces an effort to increase the development and use of measures of government perfomnce, is the latest manifestation of this desire. A central component of this new administrative orthodoxy involves using performance measures to fundamentally change the decision processes of government, including those involving resource allocation, The reformers, in short, want a system in which funds are allocated according to the results that are achieved by public programs, rather

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The Science of Public Administration: Three Problems

Cited by 234 publications

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The 2017 John Gaus Award Lecture: What If We Took Professionalism Seriously?

The 2017 John Gaus Award Lecture: What If We Took Professionalism Seriously?

Bringing the Horizon Back In: The Mid-Range Approach to Organizational Studies

Using performance measures for budgeting: A new beat, or is it the same old tune?

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