Public Administration and Epistemology: Experience, Power, and Agency

ISBN-13: 9780367689414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 196 str.

Arthur J. Sementelli

Opis

This book argues that understanding concepts of power, agency, and experience can provide such tools to orient management theories and practices relative to one another. This monograph focuses on public administration in particular as a special case of critical management research.  

 

Spis treści

Part 1:  The Frame. 1. A question of experience: Jaspers and Key Concepts. 2.  A Matter of Agency. 3.  A Matter of Power. 4. The Sandbox. Part 2:  Archetypes: The Powerless. 5.  Infantilization. 6.  Alienation. 7. Resistance. 8.  Asceticism. Part 3: Archetypes: The Powerful. 9. Domination. 10. Radicals. 11. Statesmanship. 12. Maieutics. Part 4: Implications and Limits. 13. Toward an Existential understanding of Administration

O autorze

Arthur J. Sementelli is Professor and Ph.D. Program Coordinator in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, USA.