Administration & Society articles from July 1997

Administration & Society archives from July 1997

Koop as an exemplar of moral and democratic decision making: an axial approach to ethical theory. (Surgeon General C. Everett Koop)
July 1, 1997... This study examines the problems addressed by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in order to extract the virtues or values--the moral point of view--embedded in his actions. These are then compared to competing theoretical approaches in public...

Beyond Woodrow Wilson: the identity of the study of public administration in historical perspective.
July 1, 1997... The study of public administration is not as new as often supposed. In the 17th century, cameralism or polity sciences emerged, dealing with the proper administration to bring moral and economic well-being to people. The polity sciences...

Values in flux: administrative ethics and the Hong Kong public servant.
July 1, 1997... The ethical orientations of senior civil servants in Hong Kong are examined using survey data from a sample of2 79 officials involved in advanced training and university professional training programs. These public officials were found to...

Interest group influence on rule making.
July 1, 1997... A majority of actual policy is not developed by Congress but by regulatory agencies that have been delegated the authority to interpret congressional intent. Using some of the major variables associated with interest group influence on...

Revealing the feminist in Mary Parker Follett.
July 1, 1997... In this article, the authors interpret the work of Mary Parker Follett, a well-known but underappreciated theorist of public administration. In a formal philosophical analysis organized around the traditional categories of ontology,...

Public administration and the overseas territories: what's a mother country to do?
July 1, 1997... A state can have no higher ideal than to perform well its obligations as the Imperial State of a Federal Empire. . . . The Imperial State in such an Empire may judge and control and equalize between States the most remote possible from each...