FASHIONS AND FANTASIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION*
作者:
R. N. Spann,
期刊:
Australian Journal of Public Administration
(WILEY Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 40,
issue 1
页码: 12-25
ISSN:0313-6647
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00481.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The title of this address results in part from discontent with much of the literature of Public Administration and Public Policy. It is mild discontent, and I do not want unduly to depreciate our writings. But I stop reading many books and articles disappointed, at finding old or obvious ideas restated in new words; at seeing a useful idea refined by scholasticism into complex and empirically untestable propositions; feeling that I am being “got at”; worst of all, with a sense that the work casts only a fitful or elusive light on the important problems it claims to deal with. Schuyler Wallace said years ago when I was starting my academic career that administrative study had been mainly built on the basis of half‐truths and fictions,1and I believe this is still true. If I had remembered this phrase earlier, I might have called the paper “Half‐Truths and Fictions in Public Administration”. If it reflects some real discontents, it is also intended to be a bit jokey. Should the jokes fall flat or degenerate into vulgar abuse, blame
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