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100 _aWhicker Marcia Lynn
245 _aThe troublesome cleft: public administration political science
362 _a53(6), Nov-Dec 93, p.531-41
520 _aHow 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
650 _a Political Science
650 _aPublic Administration
700 _aOlshfski Dorothy
700 _aStrickland Ruth Ann
773 _aPublic Administration Review
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