Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge of the New Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275972486)

Striving to redirect the study of public administration toward innovation and imagination, deliberative democracy, knowledge transfer, policy making, and ethics and values--topics which for too long have been overshadowed by traditional problems of efficency, productivity, and instrumental-rational solutions--this book of diverse essays is certain to invigorate both scholarship and practice. Eighteen leading international scholars evaluate public administration's historical development and explore the significance and value trends in public administration from a variety of cutting-edge theoretical and practical perspectives.

Aimed at students and practitioners alike, this collection of essays is certain to stimulate critical thinking and discussion of public administration's aims, mechanisms, and overall effectiveness, as well as the role it plays in democratizing countries.

Author: Jong S. Jun
ISBN-10: 0275972488
ISBN-13: 9780275972486
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2001
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.26w x 1.25d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 141
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1884