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作者:Meier, Kenneth J.
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要:Luther Gulick was both an academic and a reformer. In the latter role, he thought seriously about what the future of public administration might look like. This essay examines his work as a lens through which to view the future of public administration in 2020. Gulick suggests that public administration needs a governance orientation to link scholarship with the realities of practice, a recognition of the bias of structures, a stress on the informal elements of organization, additional researc...
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作者:Comfort, Louise K.; Birkland, Thomas A.; Cigler, Beverly A.; Nance, Earthea
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; North Carolina State University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans
摘要:New Orleans' recovery from the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reflects a long, complex, contentious process that still is not complete. In this article, the authors explore the key factors that have supported and hindered recovery so far. Initial conditions within the city, the web of policy demands, as well as recent changes in law and procedures for the region are explored using a new model that may be applicable to other severe disasters. Any recovery, the authors conclude, must...
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作者:Moynihan, Donald P.; Roberts, Alasdair S.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Suffolk University
摘要:The most important administrative aspect of the George W. Bush presidency was not its formal management reform agenda, but its attempt to extend the politicized presidency. Efforts to assert tighter political control of the federal bureaucracy, revived during the Ronald Reagan administration, were pursued to an extreme under Bush. Loyalty triumphed over competence in selection, and political goals displaced rationality in decision making. However, the strategy of politicization undermined the ...
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作者:Durant, Robert F.
作者单位:American University
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作者:Fiorino, Daniel J.
作者单位:American University
摘要:This article argues that sustainability should define the conceptual focus for the field of public administration in the coming decade. Sustainability involves three systems: environmental, economic, and political/social systems. The challenge of governance, and thus of public administration, is to sustain each of these systems on its own while maintaining an appropriate balance among them. The article defines the sustainability concept, and its environmental component in particular, in ways t...
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作者:Jennings, Edward T., Jr.
作者单位:University of Kentucky
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作者:Lodge, Martin; Wegrich, Kai
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者:Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
作者单位:University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要:When exploring the intellectual history of a discipline, one cannot help but wonder about the real person behind the scholarship. To what extent do personal life experiences influence a scholar's theories, conceptualizations, and expectations? Max Weber, the German scholar whose intellectual curiosity was, at least partially, inspired by strong personal anxieties, became one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. His own intellectual and personal obsessions, along ...
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作者:Bowornwathana, Bidhya
作者单位:Chulalongkorn University
摘要:The first Minnowbrook Conference in 1968 was a big success. The ideas and directions that the field of public administration followed later on were very much influenced by the spirit of Minnowbrook I Since then, it has become a practice for American scholars in the field of public administration to meet every 20 years to discuss the future direction of the field. Thus, we had Minnowbrook II in 1988 and Minnowbrook III in 2008. When the next 20 year-cycle arrives in 2028, what will happen to Mi...
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作者:Nesbit, Rebecca; Brudney, Jeffrey L.
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
摘要:This article evaluates the potential of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009 to raise the level of volunteering and national service in the United States, particularly among young people, and its implications for public administration in 2020. The act would increase service-learning opportunities and national service placements substantially. Research suggests that participation in these activities is associated with increased volunteering, civic and political engagement, and intere...