Logics of legitimacy : three traditions of public administration praxis /: three traditions of public administration praxis. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret Stout.
• Other Names: Stout, Margaret
• Contents: WHY AND HOW THE TRADITIONS FRAMEWORK WAS CREATED The Legitimacy Question Why Worry about Role Conceptualization? Professional Socialization in Public Administration; IntroductionThe Importance of Role Conceptualization in Public Administration; What Is Role Conceptualization?; How Role Conception Is Formed; Step 1: Practitioner Acts as Role Taker; Step 2: Role Performance Is Performed and Assessed; Step 3: Experience Impacts Role Conception and Conceptualization; Step 4: Pedagogy Transmits Role Conceptualizations Using Theoretical Frameworks as Interpretive Lenses; Introduction; Developing and Assessing Theoretical Frameworks; Significant Focus; Organizing Capacity; Coherency; Frameworks in Public Administration; Dwight Waldo; David Rosenbloom; Richard Stillman; Orion White; David Farmer; Jan Kooiman; Historical Eras and Schools of Thought; The Founding Era; An Orthodoxy Emerges; The Refounding Era; The Reinventing Era; The Transformational Era; Summing Up; Tradition as a Framework Metaphor How the Traditions Framework Was Created; Introduction; Employing the Ideal-Type Method; Identify a Social Phenomenon of Interest; Choose a Culturally Significant Frame of Reference; Identify Essential Generic Elements; Interpret Genetic Meanings; Construct the Ideal-Types THE TRADITIONS FRAMEWORK The Generic Elements of Each Tradition; Introduction; Political Ontology; Political Authority and Scope of Action; Criterion of Proper Behavior; Administrative Decision-Making; Rationality; Associated Organizing Style; Assumed Governance Context; Implications for Role Conceptualization; Pulling the Type Together The Constitutional Tradition—Bureaucratic Accountability to the Constitutional Order; Portrait of a Bureaucrat; Introduction; Political Ontology; Political Authority and Scope of Action; Criterion of Proper Behavior; Accountability through Neutral Competence; Accountability through Agency Conservation; Administrative Decision-Making Rationality; Organizing Style; Assumed Governance Context; Implications for Role Conceptualization; Tradition Summary The Discretionary Tradition—Entrepreneurial Responsibility for Desirable Outcomes; Portraits of Entrepreneurs; Introduction; Political Ontology; Political Authority and Scope of Action; Criterion of Proper Behavior; Responsibility for Instrumental Outcomes; Responsibility for Social Outcomes; Summary; Administrative Decision-Making Rationality; Organizing Style; Assumed Governance Context; Implications for Role Conceptualization; Tradition Summary The Collaborative Tradition—Stewardship Responsiveness to the Citizenry; Portrait of a Steward; Introduction; Political Ontology; Political Authority and Scope of Action; Criterion of Proper Behavior; "Administrative" Decision-Making Rationality; Organizing Style; Assumed Governance Context; Implications for Role Conceptualization; Tradition Summary CRITIQUE AND ANALYSIS Mutual Critiques among Traditions; Introduction; How the Traditions Fail to Achieve Their Own Logics; Elected Officials Fail to Represent or Control; Administrators Fail to Follow Orders or Rules; Discretion Fails to Produce the Public Good; Collaboration Fails to Produce the Public Good; How the Traditions Fail According to Other Logics; Democracy Is Inefficient and Ineffective; Administrative Discretion Is Undemocratic; Representation Is Problematic; Government Has Been Captured by Market Interests or Self-Interest; Collaboration Is Unconstitutional; Collaboration Fails to Achieve the Public Interest (Because It Is Only Partial); Summing Up Integrations, Conciliations, and Dialectical Syntheses; Introduction; Key Integrations or Conciliations of Traditions; Integrationist Approaches; Conciliatory Approaches; Summation; Dialectical Relationship Within and Among Traditions; Dialectic Within Traditions; Dialectic Among Traditions Assessing Contextual Fit of the Traditions—A Mental Experiment; Introduction; The Emerging Contemporary Governance Context; Critical Discussion; Structural Fit; Normative Fit; Barriers to (R)Evolution; How Do We Get There?; Summation References Appendix: Foundations Course Outline; Section 1: Introduction to the Course and Its Purpose in the MPA Program; Section 2: The Landscape of Public Administration Theory; Section 3: The Historical Roots of Public Administration; Section 4: Competing Logics of Legitimacy in Public Administration; Section 5: Putting Theory into Practice: Blended Logics and Individual Preferences Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 351.01; Public administration; Public administration -- Methodology; Legitimacy of governments
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466575738; 1466575735
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