作者：GREEN, RT; KELLER, LF; WAMSLEY, GL
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：Is public administration a profession? Richard Green Lawrence Keller, and Gary Wamsley approach this long lasting debate from a new perspective. They argue that the field assumes an impoverished definition of ''profession'' and thus has neglected important dimensions of the practice that need examination in a more constructive debate. BY returning to the classical roots of the word ''profession,'' the authors attempt to illuminate the roles that public administrators have played, and must play...
作者：WHICKER, ML; STRICKLAND, RA; OLSHFSKI, D
作者单位：University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University
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 th...
作者：DURANT, RF
摘要：What were the consequences of Ronald Reagan's strategy to reorient environmental policy? In this article, Robert Durant chronicles bow the ''micromanaging'' reactions of the Congress to Reagan's relentless attempts at implementing this initiative interacted perversely with the administration's ''supply-side management'' goals to do three things in the hazardous waste policy arena. First, they foiled Reagan's goals of ''deregulation, defunding, and devolution'' of program responsibilities. Seco...
