Making a difference [electronic resource] : progressive values in public administration / Richard C. Box.
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TextPublication details: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008Description: x, 137 pSubject(s): Public administration -- United States | Social values -- United States | Progressivism (United States politics)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 172/.20973 LOC classification: JK421 | .B65 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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