Public policy and administration : the goals of rationality and responsibility
By: LONG, Norton E
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, mar./apr.1996Public administration review: PAR 56, 2, p. 149-152Abstract: In "public policy and administration...," the late Norton E. Long, espousing that bureaucracies in government engage in both policy making and administration, stress that administrative organizations should reflect the needs of society. In so doing, thse groupings must ask questions, provide facts, and also formulate policy proposals. As a result, "...it is possible to build administrative structures whose accounts of the facts will provide a salutary limitation to the range of policy proposals that politicians will find it politic to espouse." Long's retrospective follows this condensed reprint of his earlier manuscript, with reactions by an academician and a practitioner.
In "public policy and administration...," the late Norton E. Long, espousing that bureaucracies in government engage in both policy making and administration, stress that administrative organizations should reflect the needs of society. In so doing, thse groupings must ask questions, provide facts, and also formulate policy proposals. As a result, "...it is possible to build administrative structures whose accounts of the facts will provide a salutary limitation to the range of policy proposals that politicians will find it politic to espouse." Long's retrospective follows this condensed reprint of his earlier manuscript, with reactions by an academician and a practitioner.
Public administration review PAR
March/April 1996 Volume 56 Number 2
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