The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration: A Conflict in World ViewsGeorgetown University Press, 1 мар. 1995 г. - Всего страниц: 128 Viewed alternately as an obstacle to justice, an impediment to efficient government, and a tool by which some groups gain benefits and privileges at the expense of others, public administration threatens to become the whipping boy of American government. In this innovative look at the nation's bureaucracy, Michael W. Spicer revisits the values of the Constitution in order to reconcile the administrative state to its many critics. Drawing on political and social philosophy, Spicer argues that there is a fundamental philosophical conflict over the role of reason in society between writers in public administration and the designers of the American Constitution. This examination of worldviews illuminates the problem that American government faces in trying to ground a legitimate public administration in the Constitution. Defending and developing the Founders' idea that political power, whatever its source, must be checked, he critically examines existing ideas about the role of public administration in American governance and offers an alternative vision of public administration more in line with the Founders' constitutional design. This book will provide fresh insights for anyone interested in the role of public administration in the United States today. |
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... ADMINISTRATIVE STATE TOWARD A NEW PERSPECTIVE References 105 Index 111 102 100 Preface This book is about how public administration writers look Contents * ix.
... public administration writers look at the world and the problems this creates for our thinking about the role of public administra- tion in American governance . Perhaps because my own formal education was in large part in the " dismal ...
... public administration writer Charles Goodsell ( 1985 ) has noted , portrays the bureaucrat " as lazy or snarling , or both . . . as bungling or inhumane , or both " and " the bureaucracy ... as over - staffed , inflexible , unresponsive ...
... public administration in constitutional principles , these authors and others attempt to draw upon the public affection and ... writers should seek legitimacy for American public administration in terms of political values that are ...
... public administration movement . However , the critical stance of public administration writers toward the Constitution has endured beyond the heady days of the progressive era . Recently , Lynton Caldwell ( 1976 ) has sug- gested that ...
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THE FINER ARGUMENT | 59 |
THE FRIEDRICHFINER DEBATE AND THE CHECKING OF POWER | 62 |
CONCLUSION | 66 |
An Antirationalist Vision of Public Administration | 67 |
MODERN WRITINGS ON ADMINISTRATION AS A CHECK ON POWER | 69 |
THE ANGLOAMERICAN TRADITION OF ADMINISTRATIVE DISCRETION | 71 |
RULES AND PROCEDURES | 73 |
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION | 76 |
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THE RATIONALIST WORLDVIEW | 14 |
RATIONALIST THOUGHT | 15 |
THE ANTIRATIONALIST WORLDVIEW | 20 |
ANTIRATIONALIST THOUGHT | 21 |
SUMMARY | 25 |
The Worldviews of Public Administration and the Constitution | 26 |
CONTEMPORARY WRITERS | 30 |
ANTIRATIONALISM AND THE FOUNDERS | 34 |
CONCLUSION | 39 |
On the Checking of Power The Logic of a Constitution | 41 |
PASSIONS | 45 |
UNINTENDED EXPLOITATION | 46 |
MAJORITY RULE | 48 |
THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE | 50 |
CONCLUSION | 53 |
Visions of Public Administration | 54 |
THE FRIEDRICH ARGUMENT | 55 |
INERTIA INFLEXIBILITY AND IMPERSONALITY | 78 |
CONSTRAINED DISCRETION | 79 |
The Ethics of Administrative Discretion | 81 |
PERSONAL HONESTY | 82 |
NEUTRALITY | 84 |
UTILITY | 86 |
SOCIAL EQUITY | 87 |
COMMONLAW REASONING | 89 |
CONSENSUS | 93 |
SUMMARY | 95 |
Summary and Conclusion | 97 |
THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF THE ANTIRATIONALIST VISION | 98 |
ANTIRATIONALISM IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE | 100 |
TOWARD A NEW PERSPECTIVE | 102 |
References | 105 |
Index | 111 |