The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration

by Ostrom, Vincent; Allen, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780817354626
• ISBN10: 081735462X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-14
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Author Biography

Vincent Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University and Founding Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xxi
The Crisis of Confidence	p. 1
The Persistent Crisis in the Study of Public Administration	p. 5
The Crisis as a Paradigm Problem	p. 11
The Paradigm Problem in Public Administration	p. 15
The Intellectual Mainstream in American Public Administration	p. 20
Wilson's Point of Departure	p. 20
Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy	p. 25
The Research Tradition in American Public Administration	p. 29
Gulick's Anomalous Orthodoxy	p. 31
Simon's Challenge	p. 36
The Work of the Contemporary Political Economists	p. 42
Model of Man	p. 44
Structure of Events	p. 46
Decision-Making Arrangements	p. 48
A Theory of Democratic Administration: The Rejected Alternative	p. 62
Some Anomalous Threads of Thought	p. 65
Hamilton and Madison's Theory of Democratic Administration	p. 72
Tocqueville's Analysis of Democratic Administration	p. 80
The Choice of Alternative Futures	p. 87
Some Opportunity Costs in the Choice of Paradigm	p. 87
A Science of Association as Knowledge of Form and Reform	p. 93
The Use of Different Approaches to Policy Analysis	p. 100
Conclusion	p. 113
The Continuing Constitutional Crises in American Government	p. 116
Watergate as a Crisis in Constitutional Government	p. 116
Extending Prerogatives and Abandoning Responsibilities	p. 127
A New Millennium	p. 137
Intellectual Crises and Beyond	p. 146
The American Intellectual Crisis	p. 146
A Copernican Turn?	p. 163
Challenging Ways of Thinking	p. 172
Notes	p. 183
References	p. 204
Index	p. 225
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