Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Modern Paradoxes, Postmodern Challenges (Cambridge St.in Amer.Lit.&Culture;106) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080395977X ISBN 13: 9780803959774

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080395977X
• ISBN 13: 9780803959774
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420
• Herausgeber: Wamsley Gary L., Wolf James F.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland