MELCHIOR, Mary Beth
A case for particularism in public administration - Thousand Oaks : SAGE, July 2001
The recent entrepreneurial moviment represents the latest in a series of attempts to define appropriate principles of public administration. Current entrepreneurial reforms, such as reinvention, aim explicity to moderate the excesses of bureaucratic organization, but they also carry an implicit mandate to continue the assault on particularism begun by Progressive Era reformers. The authors contend that public administration theory should consider particularism a legitimate ethical principle and explore ways of integrating particularism with ethical principles central to the buraucratic and entrepreneurial approaches to public administration. The authors analyze the manner in wich the bureaucratic and entrepreneurial approaches detract form our understanding of particularism in public administration and explore ways that a better undrstanding of particularism can enhance public administration theory
A case for particularism in public administration - Thousand Oaks : SAGE, July 2001
The recent entrepreneurial moviment represents the latest in a series of attempts to define appropriate principles of public administration. Current entrepreneurial reforms, such as reinvention, aim explicity to moderate the excesses of bureaucratic organization, but they also carry an implicit mandate to continue the assault on particularism begun by Progressive Era reformers. The authors contend that public administration theory should consider particularism a legitimate ethical principle and explore ways of integrating particularism with ethical principles central to the buraucratic and entrepreneurial approaches to public administration. The authors analyze the manner in wich the bureaucratic and entrepreneurial approaches detract form our understanding of particularism in public administration and explore ways that a better undrstanding of particularism can enhance public administration theory
