Is There a Spirit of Governance?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Koppell, Jonathan G. S.; Auer, Jennifer Claire
• 署名单位: Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02668.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: S24-S33
• 关键词: public-service motivation; ETHICAL CLIMATE; ORGANIZATIONS; institutions; performance; GOVERNMENT; employees; DEMOCRACY; agencies; BEHAVIOR

摘要

In his classic work, H. George Frederickson offers a robust call to value anew the spirit of public administration. This was offered not as an abstract treatise but as a reaction to the evolution of the practice of public administration that included institutions and approaches that stretched previous understanding of the field. Much about the constitution of the spirit of public administration is left abstract by Frederickson. It is something of a placeholder for the norms, values, and principles that are threatened by the ascendance of governance. In this article, the threat of an undermined spirit of administration in a governance era is considered with an attempt at greater specificity and concreteness than previous discussions. To the end of opening a more empirical exploration of the spirit-governance nexus, this article moves away from an either/or position and attempts to distill the highest risks of deterioration of spirit in the provision of public goods.