THE TROUBLESOME CLEFT - PUBLIC-ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICAL-SCIENCE

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: WHICKER, ML; STRICKLAND, RA; OLSHFSKI, D
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.2307/977363
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 531-541
• 关键词: organization

摘要

How have we progressed in our 100-year-old debate about the politics/administration dichotomy? Marcia Whicker, Ruth Strickland, and Dorothy Olshfski argue that public management is examined within political science as a conversion variable. While political science has not reached consensus about a single, discipline-dependent variable, knowledge of the concepts as used-power, justice, equity, conflict, and policy-is useful for public managers. At this point in time, political science offers the practitioner a more thorough training in scientific rigor than public administration. Public administration is an interdisciplinary hybrid, that can draw as much or more from Political science as from other contributing disciplines. A focus upon the interface between the two disciplines rather than continued emphasis on their differences provides the greatest prospect future mutual advance.