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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Raadschelders, Jos C.N. |
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Is American public administration detached from historical context?: On the nature of time and the need to understand it in government and its study |
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2010 |
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p.235-60 |
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May |
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The study of public administration pays little attention to history. Most publications are focused on current problems (the present) and desired solutions (the future) and are concerned mainly with organizational structure (a substantive issue) and output targets (an aggregative issue that involves measures of both individual performance and organizational productivity/services). There is much less consideration of how public administration (i.e., organization, policy, the study, etc.) unfolds over time. History, and so administrative history, is regarded as a "past" that can be recorded for its own sake but has little relevance to contemporary challenges. This view of history is the product of a diminished an emic sense of time, resulting from organizing the past as a series of events that inexorably lead up to the present in a linear fashion. To improve the understanding of government's role and position in society, public administration scholarship needs to reacquaint itself with the nature of time. - (Reproduced). |
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Public administration |
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American Review of Public Administration |
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