TY  - BOOK
AU  - Box,Richard C.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Making a difference: progressive values in public administration 
AV  - JK421 .B65 2008
U1  - 172/.20973 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Armonk, N.Y.
PB  - M.E. Sharpe
KW  - Public administration
KW  - United States
KW  - Social values
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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ER  -