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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... reason . This conflict in worldviews , I suggest , makes it difficult for us as public administration writers to ... reason , but not to imply a rejection per se of reason or any kind of embrace of irrationalism or mysticism . My own ...
... reason and the premises which we use in reasoning . Worldviews are crucial in our interpretation of social and political insti- tutions . Our very sense of what is meant by a constitution , a government , a legislature , a legal system ...
... reason lead to very different views about causal relationships in the world and hence to differing interpretations ... reason , the worldview underlying the design of the Constitution stresses the limits of reason . This conflict in ...
... reason while the other , an " anti - rationalist " view , stresses the limits of reason . As Hayek ( 1948 ) noted , the rationalist view assumes that reason " is always fully and equally available to all humans and that everything which ...
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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 |