Description
Handbook of Administrative History
Author: Raadschelders Jos
Language: EnglishSubjects for Handbook of Administrative History:
Keywords
Public Administration; Special Studies Center; California State University; Vice Versa; Double Entry Bookkeeping; Double Entry; De La Mare; Public Administration Theory Network; Administrative History; Full Time Civil Servants; Central Governments; Contemporary Society; Common Pool Resource Management; Specific Purpose Governments; Van Parijs; Administrative Science Research; Political Administrative Relationships; Citizen Functionaries; Central Local Relations; Comparative Public Administration; Demand Overload; Quantitative Research; Interdependent Complexities; Town Charters; Social Science Research
Publication date: 08-2017
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
Approximative price 58.62 €
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Add to cart the book of Raadschelders JosPublication date: 04-2000
372 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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Public administration is commonly assumed to be a young discipline, rooted in law and political science, with little history of its own. Likewise, teaching and scholarship in this field is often career oriented and geared either toward the search for immediately usable knowledge or guidelines and prescriptions for the future. Although most administrative scientists would acknowledge that their field has a history, their time horizon is limited to the recent past. Raadschelders demonstrates that public administration has in fact a long-standing tradition, both in practice and in writing; administration has been an issue ever since human beings recognized the need to organize themselves in order to organize the environment in which they lived. This history, in turn, underlines the need for administrators to be aware of the importance and contemporary impact of past decisions and old traditions. In seeking to go beyond the usual problem-solving and future-oriented studies of public administration, this volume adds greatly to the cognitive richness of this field of research. Indeed, the search for theoretical generalizations will profit from an approach that unravels long-term trends in the development of administration and government.
"Raadschelders approaches public administration history from a dual perspective, as trained historian and professor of public administration.... The volume is appropriately called a aehandbook' in view of its methodical listing of the literature on administrative history, together with summaries of numerous authors' principal theories. The second chapter is an essay on sources in the field, including an extended bibliography.... These parts of the book alone make it useful to scholars in the field.... Raadschelders is helpful in other ways as well. The third and fourth chapters offer a highly sophisticated discussion of methodological problems encountered in writing administrative history, including the issue of perceiving 'stages.' Other chapters discuss leading substantive issues such as the development of bureaucracy and citizenship. The author combines his own history-telling with more bibliographic commentary.