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The American New State of Mary Parker Follett
(Academic Journals, 2011)
This research tries to answer one of the major questions that has been discussed in the literature of Public Administration (PA) repeatedly. The question is: Has 21st century American government succeeded in achieving a ...
Positivist and phenomenological research in American public administration
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)
Public administration suffers from the problem of the logical division between facts and values if modernity is seen as the thoughts of logical positivism and instrumental rationalism. The instrumental rationality of ...
Governance and government in public administration
(Academic Journals, 2011)
More and more public administration and management scholars have referred to the ldquo;new governancerdquo; and argue that the focus of the study of public administration today should be on governance, rather than government. ...
Rationality and irrationality of Max Weber’s bureaucracies
(2011)
Abstract Beginning with Max Weber, bureaucracies have been regarded as mechanisms that rationalize authority and decisionmaking in society. Yet subsequent theorists have questioned the rationality of bureaucracies. The ...
Fiscal federalism in changeable world
(Academic Journals, 2011)
The conversations about fiscal federalism, decentralization and devolution have been evolving in the literature since the second half of the 20th century. In the United States and all around the world, the matter of ...
Ethics between professionalism and individual conscience in public administration
(2011)
The main argument is that both professionalism (rational view) and individual conscience (anti-rational view) are very important elements to be considered in terms of establishing a framework for administrative ethics. The ...
THE ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS BETWEEN PROFESSIONALISM AND INDIVIDUAL CONSCIENCE
(2011)
Based on the book of Unmasking Administrative Evil, this review discusses the tension between professionalism and individual conscience in the context of a dichotomy. It is argued that neither professional standards nor ...
Organization and Management Theory in Public vs. Private Organizations
(2011)
Some people argue that organization and management theory can be used to understand public organizations in essentially the same way as private organizations. Others argue that organizing and managing in the public sector ...
Positivist and Phenomenological Research in Public Administration نظرية المعرفة العلمية و نظرية المعرفة التفسيرية في حقل الأدارة العامة
(2011)
The research discusses what are the major similarities and differences in how a public administrator committed to the positivist perspective and one committed to the interpretivist or phenomenological perspective would ...