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100			_aWashington, Charles W.
245			_aFrom promiscuity to living together to making the decision to break up or make a lasting commitment
260			_c2004
300			_ap.501-08.
520			_aAlthough public administration was "born" and "reared" as a child of politics and constitutional democracy, the coherence of its central purposes later eroded into disparate fragments in a set of "promiscuous" relationships. But now the field has become accustomed to a casual mode in which a loose collection of sub-fields and competing worldviews "live together". This invites leaving behind our intellectual origins and easy flirting with passing trends and alternative partners. Even while maintaining multiple external ties, the field should now seek to advance to an "adult" form of lasting commitment to a reaffirmed set of core values. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
909			_a61246
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