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- Title
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ENQUIRY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE POSTMODERN CONDITION: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF VALUE PLURALISM.
- Authors
Spicer, Michael W.
- Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between public administration and social science in light of the postmodern condition. It is argued here that the postmodern condition limits the role of conventional social science in public administration because it increases the incidence, as well as the visibility, of conflict between incompatible and incommensurable human ends or values. While conventional social science can still make a useful contribution to public administration enquiry, as an expression of certain important values, other modes of enquiry, including philosophy and history, are also important in helping us to become more self-conscious about the political and ethical values that we express in public administration discourse and practice and the conflicts that can occur between them.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration; POLITICAL science; SOCIAL sciences; PRACTICAL politics; POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
Administrative Theory & Praxis (Administrative Theory & Praxis), 2005, Vol 27, Issue 4, p669
- ISSN
1084-1806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10841806.2005.11029517