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The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration

by Vincent Ostrom and Barbara Allen
University of Alabama Press, 1989
Paper: 978-0-8173-0418-8
Library of Congress Classification JA84.U5O88 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 353

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Preface
    • 1. 
    • The Crisis of Confidence
      • The Persistent Crisis in the Study of Public Administration
      • The Crisis as a Paradigm Problem
      • The Paradigm Problem in Public Administration
    • 2. 
    • The Intellectual Mainstream in American Public Administration
      • Wilson's Point of Departure
      • Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy
      • The Research Tradition in American Public Administration
      • Gulick's Anomalous Orthodoxy
      • Simon's Challenge
    • 3. 
    • The Work of the Contemporary Political Economists
      • Model of Man
      • Structure of Events
      • Decision-Making Arrangements
    • 4. 
    • A Theory of Democratic Administration: The Rejected Alternative
      • Some Anomalous Threads of Thought
      • Hamilton and Madison's Theory of Democratic Administration
      • Tocqueville's Analysis of Democratic Administration
    • 5. 
    • The Choice of Alternative Futures
      • Some Opportunity Costs in the Choice of Paradigm
      • A Science of Association as Knowledge of Form and Reform
      • The Use of Different Approaches to Policy Analysis
      • Conclusion
    • 6. 
    • The Continuing Constitutional Crises in American Government
      • Watergate as a Crisis in Constitutional Government
      • Extending Prerogatives and Abandoning Responsibilities
    • 7. 
    • Intellectual Crises and Beyond
      • The American Intellectual Crises
      • A Copernican Turn?
      • Challenging Ways of Thinking
    • Notes
    • References
    • Index
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