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Contemporary public administration research has marginalized the
importance of "taking history seriously." With few exceptions,
little recent scholarship in the field has looked longitudinally
(rather than cross-sectionally), contextually, and theoretically
over extended time periods at "big questions" in public
administration. One such "big question" involves the evolution of
American administrative reform and its link since the nation's
founding to American state building. This book addresses this gap
by analyzing administrative reform in unprecedented empirical and
theoretical ways. In taking a multidisciplinary approach, it
incorporates recent developments in cognate research fields in the
humanities and social sciences that have been mostly ignored in
public administration. It thus challenges existing notions of the
nature, scope, and power of the American state and, with these,
important aspects of today's conventional wisdom in public
administration. Author Robert F. Durant explores the administrative
state in a new light as part of a "compensatory state"-driven,
shaped, and amplified since the nation's founding by a
corporate-social science nexus of interests. Arguing that this
nexus of interests has contributed to citizen estrangement in the
United States, he offers a broad empirical and theoretical
understanding of the political economy of administrative reform,
its role in state building, and its often paradoxical results.
Offering a reconsideration of conventional wisdom in public
administration, this book is required reading for all students,
scholars, or practitioners of public administration, public policy,
and politics.
By the Cold War's end, U.S. military bases harbored nearly 20,000
toxic waste sites. All told, cleaning the approximately 27 million
acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. And yet
while progress has been made, efforts to integrate environmental
and national security concerns into the military's operations have
proven a daunting and intrigue-filled task that has fallen short of
professed goals in the post-Cold War era. In "The Greening of the
U.S. Military", Robert F. Durant delves into this too-little
understood world of defense environmental policy to uncover the
epic and ongoing struggle to build an environmentally sensitive
culture within the post-Cold War military. Through over 100
interviews and thousands of pages of documents, reports, and trade
newsletter accounts, he offers a telling tale of political,
bureaucratic, and intergovernmental combat over the pace, scope,
and methods of applying environmental and natural resource laws
while ensuring military readiness. He then discerns from these
clashes over principle, competing values, and narrow self-interest
a theoretical framework for studying and understanding
organizational change in public organizations. From Dick Cheney's
days as Defense Secretary under President George H.W. Bush to
William Cohen's Clinton-era-tenure and on to Donald Rumsfeld's
Pentagon, the battle over "greening" the military has been one with
high-stakes consequences for both national defense and public
health, safety, and the environment. Durant's polity-centered
perspective and arguments will evoke needed scrutiny, debate, and
dialogue over these issues in environmental, military,
policymaking, and academic circles.
Dialog between practitioners and academics has increasingly become
the exception rather than the rule in contemporary public
administration circles. Bridging the gap between theory and
practice, Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges,
Choices, and Opportunities tackles some of the major management
challenges, choices, and opportunities of the twenty-first century
facing public managers across various subfields of public
administration. Informed by contemporary pressures on public
managers to reconceptualize purpose, redefine administrative
rationality, recapitalize human assets, reengage resources, and
revitalize democratic constitutionalism, the book offers students,
practitioners, and researchers an opportunity to take stock and
ponder the future of practice and research in public
administration. Organized by three sets of major management
challenges facing the field-Rethinking Administrative Rationality
in a Democratic Republic, Recapitalizing Organizational Capacity,
and Reconceptualizing Institutions for New Policy Challenges-the
book takes an uncommon approach to the study of these topics. In
it, leading practitioners and academics comment on condensed
versions of articles appearing in the Theory to Practice feature of
Public Administration Review (PAR) from 2006 through 2011. The
authors and commentators focus on some of the best current
research, draw lessons from that literature for practice, and
identify gaps in research that need to be addressed. They expertly
draw out themes, issues, problems, and prospects, providing
bulleted lessons and practical takeaways. This makes the book a
unique one-stop resource for cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral,
and cross-professional exchanges on contemporary challenges.
Contemporary public administration research has marginalized the
importance of "taking history seriously." With few exceptions,
little recent scholarship in the field has looked longitudinally
(rather than cross-sectionally), contextually, and theoretically
over extended time periods at "big questions" in public
administration. One such "big question" involves the evolution of
American administrative reform and its link since the nation's
founding to American state building. This book addresses this gap
by analyzing administrative reform in unprecedented empirical and
theoretical ways. In taking a multidisciplinary approach, it
incorporates recent developments in cognate research fields in the
humanities and social sciences that have been mostly ignored in
public administration. It thus challenges existing notions of the
nature, scope, and power of the American state and, with these,
important aspects of today's conventional wisdom in public
administration. Author Robert F. Durant explores the administrative
state in a new light as part of a "compensatory state"-driven,
shaped, and amplified since the nation's founding by a
corporate-social science nexus of interests. Arguing that this
nexus of interests has contributed to citizen estrangement in the
United States, he offers a broad empirical and theoretical
understanding of the political economy of administrative reform,
its role in state building, and its often paradoxical results.
Offering a reconsideration of conventional wisdom in public
administration, this book is required reading for all students,
scholars, or practitioners of public administration, public policy,
and politics.
One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the
United States today is discerning how best to harness for public
purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of
nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the
public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service.
Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields
have independently investigated aspects of the formidable
challenges, choices, and opportunities this dilemma poses for
governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This
literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives,
is methodologically diverse, and is fragmented. The Oxford Handbook
of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and
integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many
of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies
major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of
knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising.
Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly
viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable
for assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the
end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading
scholars think it should go in the future.
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics is a set of reference
books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the
state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a
particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General
Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists
in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not
just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars
critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions
in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference
for anyone working in American politics.
General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics George
C. Edwards III
One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the
United States today is discerning how best to harness for public
purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of
nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the
public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service.
Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields
have independently investigated aspects of the formidable
challenges, choices, and opportunities this dilemma poses for
governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This
literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives,
is methodologically diverse, and is fragmented. The Oxford Handbook
of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and
integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many
of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies
major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of
knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising.
Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly
viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable
for assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the
end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading
scholars think it should go in the future.
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference
books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the
state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a
particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General
Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists
in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not
just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars
critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions
in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference
for anyone working in American politics.
General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics George
C. Edwards III
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