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Book SynopsisDespite the global mood for privatization in the last decades of the 20th century, dissatisfaction with failing public/private partnerships and calls for an active state in the face of increasing globalization has created a situation where the term "public administration" has gained new validity.
Table of ContentsTracing the idea of public administration; towards a renaissance of public administration?, M.R. Rutgers; exploring the public/private dichotomy; an evaluation of "The Intellectual Crisis Of American Public Administration" and "The Government is US", U. Pesch; reforming American public administration - public or private solutions?, C.S. King; disentangling blurring boundaries - the public/private dichotomy from an organizational perspective, G. Dijkstra, F. van der Meer; wine turned sour? private gain, public verdict - Seijs, Scheepmaker and the public/private dichotomy, P. Wagenaar; great expectations and confusing relations, L. Luton; wine, taxes and prison - a premodernist view of thick description, E. Page; three roads to politics and administration; ideational foundations of the politics/administration dichotomy, P. Overeem, M.R. Rutgers; finding and refining complementarity in recent conceptual models of politics and administration, J.R. Brunet, J.H. Svara; public administration and practical reasoning, P. Nieuwenburg; constitutionalism and comparative administration - an addendum to the new public management, J.A. Rohr; reassessing purpose and value; towards an end/action model of values in public administration, M.R. Rutgers, P. Schreurs; the rule of rationality; Weber's concept of rationality in his writings on the bureaucracy, P. Schreurs; Weberian rationality as the impersonality of rule application - an appreciative response to Petra Schreurs, J. Forester; modern reason and postmodern rationality, J.D. White; understanding government through differentiated integration in the study of public administration, J.C.N. Raadschelders; rediscovering government, D.L. Balfour.
