Making a difference : progressive values in public administration / / Richard C. Box.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Box, Richard C.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 137 p.

Table of Contents

Preface -- The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice" -- References -- Index -- About the author.