Large Forces: What's Missing In Public Administration - Softcover

Roberts, Alasdair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493535811 ISBN 13: 9781493535811

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

What's missing in the study of American public administration? Two things. First, a recognition of the importance of research on the subject of administrative development. And second, an appreciation of the importance of large forces in determining the path of administrative development. In short, we need a broader conception of what is contained within the domain of public administration scholarship. This broader conception of the field is not new. On the contrary, it revives understandings about the boundaries of public administration scholarship that were prevalent in the field's earliest years, and then forgotten.

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About the Author

Alasdair Roberts is the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration. He received his law degree from University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University and is the author of several books, including The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the New Architecture of Government; Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age; America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837; and The End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent.

Review

"A challenging polemic" -- Richard Stillman, Public Administration Evolving, 2015.

"There is too little attention to the issue of what Alasdair Roberts has recently called 'large forces' - the big shifts in society, economy, technology and politics that force governments to confront new problems, or old problems in new ways." -- Colin Talbot, Whitehall Watch, 2013

"There is a need for public administration to go back to its roots to address the big issues that contemporary political systems have to deal with such as climate change, migration, demographic and technological changes, and security. We have to go beyond the internal management problems and address the wicked issues that societies are currently facing in explaining the path of administration.  This is an issue throughout public administration as a discipline." -- Per Laegreid, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,  2016

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1493535811
• ISBN 13: 9781493535811
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 72