The troublesome cleft: public administration political science
By: Whicker Marcia Lynn.
Contributor(s): Olshfski Dorothy | Strickland Ruth Ann.
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ArticleSubject(s): Political Science | Public Administration
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Public Administration ReviewSummary: How have we progressed in our 100-year-old debate about the politics/administration dichotomy? Marcia Whicker, Ruth Strickland and Dorothy Olshfski argue that public management is examined within political science as a conversion variable. While political science has not reached consensus about a single, discipline-dependent variable, knowledge of the concepts as used-power, justice, equity, conflict, and policy - is useful for public managers. At this point in time, political science offers the practitioner a more thorough training in scientific rigor than public administration. Public administration is an interdisciplinary hybrid, that can draw as much or more from political science as from other contribut
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How have we progressed in our 100-year-old debate about the politics/administration dichotomy? Marcia Whicker, Ruth Strickland and Dorothy Olshfski argue that public management is examined within political science as a conversion variable. While political science has not reached consensus about a single, discipline-dependent variable, knowledge of the concepts as used-power, justice, equity, conflict, and policy - is useful for public managers. At this point in time, political science offers the practitioner a more thorough training in scientific rigor than public administration. Public administration is an interdisciplinary hybrid, that can draw as much or more from political science as from other contribut
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