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Public Administration's Final Exam - A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline (Paperback)
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Public Administration's Final Exam - A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline (Paperback)
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Examines why public administration's literature has failed to
justify the profession's legitimacy as an instrument of governance
Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a Final Exam, first
"written" in the early 1930s, in a critique of the field's answers
to the legitimacy question. Because the assumptions that underwrite
the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the
exam should be canceled and its question rewritten. Envisaging a
public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy question,
Harmon explains how the study and practice of public administration
might proceed from adolescence to maturity. Drawing chiefly from
pragmatist philosophy, he argues that despite the universal
rejection of the "politics/administration" dichotomy on factual
grounds, the pseudo-problem of legitimacy nonetheless persists in
the guise of four related conceptual dualisms: 1) values and facts,
2) thinking and doing, 3) ends and means, and 4) theory and
practice. Collectively, these dualisms demand an impossible answer
to the practical question of how we might live, and govern,
together in a world of radical uncertainty and interdependence.
Only by dissolving them can the legitimacy question (Woodrow
Wilson's ghost) finally be banished, clearing away the theoretical
debris that obscures a more vital and useful conception of
governance.
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