Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach: Lynch, Thomas D.; Dicker, Todd J. : 9780824701130: Book: History: eCampus.com

Explains the major issues in public and government organization theory using classical philosophy - covering and relating a broad range of individual philosophers as well as philosophic movements to public administration - from Plato to the postmoderns.

Preface

iii

(6)

Contributors

1 The Lens of Understanding

(16)

Thomas D. Lynch

Todd J. Dicker

PART I PREMODERN

(54)

2 Plato and the Invention of Political Science

(40)

Ralph Clark Chandler

3 Jesus and Public Administration

(14)

Lance deHaven-Smith

PART II MODERNIST DEFINED

(96)

4 Niccolo Machiavelli and Modern Public Administration

(26)

John W. Swain

5 Mercantilism: The Great Temptation

(14)

Paul Rich

6 Jeremy Bentham: Utilitarianism, Public Policy, and the Administrative State

111

(14)

Lawrence L. Martin

7 John Locke's Influence on American Government and Public Administration

125

(16)

Mark F. Griffith

8 Adam Smith's Legacy

141

(26)

David John Farmer

PART III EARLY LOYAL OPPOSITION TO THE MODERNIST

167

(38)

9 David Hume and Public Administration: Empiricism, Scepticism, and Constitutionalism

167

(14)

Michael W. Spicer

10 Edmund Burke: The Role of Public Administration in a Constitutional Order

181

(24)

Akhlaque U. Haque

PART IV AMERICAN MODERNIST INFLUENCE

205

(86)

11 Making Democracy Safe for the World: Public Administration in the Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson

205

(22)

Brian J. Cook

12 Progressivism: Critiques and Contradictions

227

(32)

Larkin Sims Dudley

13 The Bureau Movement: Seedbed of Modern Public Administration

259

(14)

Camilla Stivers

14 Of Proverbs and Positivism: The Logical Herbert Simon

273

(18)

Peter L. Cruise

PART V LATER MODERNIST OPPOSITION

291

(68)

15 Marshall Dimock's Deflective Organizational Theory

291

(14)

James A. Stever

16 Phenomenology

305

(20)

William L. Waugh, Jr.

17 Jean-Paul Sartre

325

(14)

William L. Waugh, Jr.

18 John Rawls and Public Administration

339

(20)

Stephen L. Esquith

PART VI RISE OF POSTMODERNISM

359

(82)

19 From Positivism to Post-Postivism: An Unfinished Journey

359

(30)

Laurent Dobuzinskis

20 On the Language of Bureaucracy: Postmodernism, Plain English, and Wittgenstein

389

(26)

Robert P. Watson

21 Postmodern Philosophy, Postmodernity, and Public Organization Theory

415

(26)

Charles J. Fox

Hugh T. Miller

PART VII POSTMODERN ALTERNATIVE

441

(38)

22 Public Entrepreneurism: A New Paradigm for Public Administration?

441

(22)

Alan C. Melchior

23 Twenty-First Century Philosophy and Public Administration

463

(16)

Thomas D. Lynch

Cynthia E. Lynch

Index

479


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