Recovering, Restoring, and Renewing the Foundations of American Public Administration: The Contributions of Herbert J. Storing
成果类型：
Review
署名作者：
Morgan, Douglas F.; Kirwan, Kent A.; Rohr, John A.; Rosenbloom, David H.; Schaefer, David Lewis
署名单位：
Portland State University; University of Nebraska System; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; City University of Hong Kong; American University; College of the Holy Cross
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3352
DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02183.x
发表日期：
2010
页码：
621-633
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摘要：
Public administration continues to face an identity crisis that turns on the question of whether the animating principles of the discipline are to be discovered in the political foundations of a given regime, or whether they are to be found in more universal and transcendent principles of scientific management. Herbert J. Storing reframed the identity crisis as a problem arising from America's constitutional system of governance. In doing so, he created an important role for public administration in democratic governance. This role took the form of closet statesmanship and, in practice, requires the exercise of prudential judgment that looks more like judicial decision making than scientific management. In summarizing Storing's writings, the authors convincingly argue that he has much to teach us about the ongoing debate regarding the role of the bureaucracy within America's 87,576 systems of government.