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- Title
Toward a Public Philosophy of Public Administration: A Civic Perspective of the Public.
- Authors
Ventriss, Curtis
- Abstract
Political analysts Max Weber noted that no modem state can exist without an administrative system. Similarly, Carl Frederich argued that administration is the core of the modern state. While the relationship between an administrative system and the modem state seems self evident today, the definition of the state is more elusive. Although the meaning of the state is fraught with difficulties as political scientists openly admit, Morton Fried has provided a good working definition. A state is not simply a legislature, an executive body, a judiciary system, an administrative bureaucracy, or even a government a state is better viewed as the complex of institutions by means of which the power of society is organized. Arguing from a related perspective, Edward Laumann and David Knoke declare that the state is not a unitary actor, but a complex entity spanning multiple policy domains, comprised of both governmental organizations and those private-sector participants whose interest must be taken into account.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology; PUBLIC administration; PHILOSOPHY &; civilization; LEGISLATIVE bodies; JUDICIAL process; INTERORGANIZATIONAL relations
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1989, Vol 49, Issue 2
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/977339