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- Title
GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: CHALLENGES TO AND NEED FOR CONNECTING KNOWLEDGE.
- Authors
Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
- Abstract
The material object of the study of public administration is to acquire knowledge about government. As government's role and position in society has grown to historically unprecedented levels--as is clear when comparing current size of personnel, expenditure, number of laws and regulations and so forth to those of a 100 years ago--so has academic specialization grown. Efforts to connect these specialized bodies of knowledge both among the various specializations within the study of public administration, as well as among the various disciplines who study government from their particular formal object, are few and far between. More attention needs to be paid to developing and providing metaframeworks and metalanguages on the basis of which compartmentalized knowledge about government can be linked better. The pluralist perspective upon knowledge integration developed in this article serves as an umbrella for the four groups of approaches under which most theories-in-use can be categorized. But, the challenges to such knowledge integration are several.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration education; POLITICAL science education; SOCIAL sciences education; EDUCATION; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Administrative Theory & Praxis (Administrative Theory & Praxis), 2005, Vol 27, Issue 4, p603
- ISSN
1084-1806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10841806.2005.11029515