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" Public administration's final exam : "
Michael M. Harmon.
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BL
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1030512
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b784882
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Harmon, Michael M.,1941-
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Public administration's final exam : : a pragmatist restructuring of the profession and the discipline /\ Michael M. Harmon.
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages)
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081738135X
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: 9780817381356
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081731539X
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9780817315399
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index.
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The question -- Values, facts, and the problem of moralism -- Thinking, doing, and the problem of rationalism -- Ends, means, and the problem of managerialism -- Theory, practice, and the problem of technicism -- Rewriting public administration's final exam.
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Examines why public administration's literature has failed to justify the profession's legitimacy as an instrument of governance. Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first "written" in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field's answers to the legitimacy question. Because the assumptions that underwrite the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the exam should be canceled and its question rewritten. Envisaging a public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy question, Harmon explains how the study and practic.
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Civil service-- United States.
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Public administration-- United States.
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Civil service.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- Executive Branch.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Affairs Administration.
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Public administration.
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United States.
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351.73
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JK421.H295 2006eb
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