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The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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