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100			_aJos, Philip H.
245			_aAdministrative practice and the waning promise of professionalism for public administration
260			_c1995
300			_ap.207-29
362			_aSep
520			_aFor two decades public administration has considered a series of evolving conceptions of professionalism, designed to address some of the field's central concerns. The authors evaluate professionalism's ability to provide practitioners a sense of unity and purpose, to promote virtuous and competent administrative practice, to defend public administration's legitimate institutional role in governance, and to enhance the standing of the field in the eyes of the public and its representatives. They conclude that the professional ideal, even a revised professionalism that avoids explicit claims to autonomous practice, is one that the field should relinquish. - Reproduced
650			_aPublic administration
700			_aTompkins, Mark E.
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
909			_a36749
999			_c36749 _d36749