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.