Making a difference progressive values in public administration /
Box, Richard C.
Making a difference progressive values in public administration / [electronic resource] : Richard C. Box. - Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008. - x, 137 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index.
Preface -- The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice" -- References -- Index -- About the author.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Public administration--United States.
Social values--United States.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Electronic books.
JK421 / .B65 2008
172/.20973
Making a difference progressive values in public administration / [electronic resource] : Richard C. Box. - Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008. - x, 137 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index.
Preface -- The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice" -- References -- Index -- About the author.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Public administration--United States.
Social values--United States.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Electronic books.
JK421 / .B65 2008
172/.20973