Refounding Democratic Public Administration: Modern Paradoxes, Postmodern Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780803959774 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 416 str.

James F. Wolf; Gary L. Wamsley

Opis

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 democracy to evolve and mature.