Whicker Marcia Lynn <br/><br/>
The troublesome cleft: public administration political science 

 - 53(6), Nov-Dec 93, p.531-41 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Political Science<br/>Public Administration