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Public Administration
The Interdisciplinary Study of Government
Jos C. N. Raadschelders
280 pages
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Numerous tables and figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-969389-4
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Hardback
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27 October 2011
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- Explores and analyzes the history of public administration
- Appeal in politics (public administration) and management (public management)
- Provides an epistemology for the study of public administration
Public administration seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure and functioning of government, in all its complexity, and its interaction with society and its citizens. Public Administration: The Interdisciplinary Study of Government provides an account of the discipline, considering its history, growth, boundaries, and tunderlying assumptions. It tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services, and situates it within the three branches of knowledge - natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It maps out the sources of knowledge of
public administration, and how this is fragmented within the discipline's specializations, the social sciences, and government and society at large. It examines how leading authors map the discipline, the application of different theories, the associated schools of thought and intellectual debates, and the role of knowledge integration.
Scholars in public administration have initiated much debate as to whether it should be treated as a science, a craft or profession, or an art. This book argues that to develop a comprehensive understanding of government and its complexity requires a truly interdisciplinary approach.Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students
in Public Administration, Public Management, Business and Management, Political Science, and Social Sciences in general.
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Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Professor of Public Administration at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, the Ohio State University Jos C.N. Raadschelders received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His research interests, among others, include administrative history, the nature and intellectual development of public administration, and comparative civil service systems. He is the managing editor of Public Administration Review.
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"There is a strong tradition in public administration that reflects on the identity of the field, questions the rigor of the research, and suggests paths moving forward on both fronts. [This book] distinctively contributes to that reflective tradition, developing a thoughtful survey of past debates while adding new and thoughtfully developed insights. The author successfully invites a wide range of participation in the book through an inviting style of writing. [The book] delivers on the promise in the title of mapping the way for interdisciplinary study to expand the understanding of public administration. Raadschelders offers insights for researchers, teachers, and practitioners, as well as mapping a path to generate new discussions, to connect the
research across disciplines and traditions, and a deep appreciation of the complexity and challenges in the study and practice of public administration." - American Review of Public Administration
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1: Framing the Nature of the Study of Public Administration: Origins, Identity Crises, Maturity, and Conceptual Mapping
2: Science or Wissenschaft: Public Administration among the Three Branches of Knowledge
3: Public Administration and the Fragmentation of its Knowledge Sources: Academic Specialties and Disciplines, Organizational Units, and Societal Organizations
4: Substantive Topics and Comprehensive Conceptual Maps of Public Administration
5: Bogey Man, Doctor's Bag, Artist's Medium: The Dynamic Arena of PA-theory
6: Four Intellectual Traditions in the Study of Public Administration
7: Public Administration's Canon(s) of Integration
8: The Nature of and Intellectual challenges to the Study of Public Administration
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