Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Modern Paradoxes, Postmodern Challenges - Couverture souple

 
9780803959774: Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Modern Paradoxes, Postmodern Challenges

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The contributors to this volume contend that the North American political system is undergoing a serious governmental crisis - political leaders know only how to campaign, not how to gain consensus on goals or direct a course that is to the good of the nation. Public administration is therefore forced to compensate for the growing inadequacy of the `leaders', and with a normative-based body of theorizing, perform its key role of governance within a democratic system of polycentric power.

The book offers a revisualization of the relationship between public servants and the citizens they serve, and a continuing discourse on how public administration can constructively balance forces of change and stability in order for democr

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9780803959767: Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Modern Paradoxes, Postmodern Challenges

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ISBN 10 :  0803959761 ISBN 13 :  9780803959767
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1996
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