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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Administrative Theory in the New Century
The Need for Rethinking
Introduction
Moving on (Legitimacy is Over): Millennial Consciousness and Its Potential by O.C. McSwite
The Hegemony of the Consumer, Administration, and Management at the End of the Century by Yiannis Gabriel
"Future Challenges in Organization Theory?" Amnesia and the Production of Ignorance by Martin Parker
Public Administration and Postmodern Conditions: Some American Pointers to Research after the Year 2000 by Peter Bogason
Challenges in Public Service, Values, and Ethics
Introduction
Public Service as the Parable of Democracy by Louis C. Gawthrop
A Democratic Public and Administrative Thought: A Public Perspective by Curtis Ventriss
Value Pluralism in Public Administration: Two Perspectives on Administrative Morality by Hendrick Wagenaar
Passionate Humility: Toward a Philosophy of Ethical Will by Dvora Yanow and Hugh Willmott
Challenges in Organizations
Introduction
The Demise and Foreseeable Come-Back of Public Administration by Francesco P. Cerase
Embracing Organized Disorder: The Future of Organizational Membership by Michael A. Diamond
Changing Paradigms for Public Service by Thomas Clarke and Stewart Clegg
Back to the Future: The 21st Century and the Loss of Sensibility by Ralph Hummel
Challenges in Administrative Reform and Policymaking
Introduction
Reconciling Public Ethics and Business Norms: A Future Challenge to Administrative Theory by M. Shamsul Haque
Administrative Reformers in a Global World: Diagnosis, Prescription, and the Limits of Transferability by David H. Rosenbloom
De-Institutionalizing "Group Think": From State Welfarism and Towards Cyber-Netizinship in the "Smart State" by Alexander Kouzmin and Alan Jarman
Deliberative Democracy, Disourse, and New Governance
Introduction
Studies of Deliberative Practice: From Critical Theory to Oral History and Back Again by John Forester
The Discourses of Anti-Administation by David John Farmer
New Governance in Civil Society: Changing Responsibility of Public Administration by Jong S. Jun
Subject Index

About the Author

JONG S. JUN is Professor of Public Administration at California State University, Hayward.

Reviews

?Fascinating, sometimes frustrating, and important, this sparkling collection of essays by leading theorists explores the impacts of emerging social and cultural trends on administrative theory. Indeed, the editor believes there is an imperative to "rethink theory." Jun has assembled a powerful set of essays that seek to find meaning and give shape to the impact of the democracy movement, globalization, information explosion, cultural fragmentation, and individualism. The language often flirts with postmodernism, but it holds great potential to loosen up contemporary thinking. The thread holding this collection together is a belief that rationalist, managerial, hierarchical approaches (20th century) are destructive of human values and aspirations. Much of this is leading edge, but there is a small failure to recall "New Public Administration." The challenge is not to substitute new models for old ones but to complement the dominant rationalist bias with a decentralized, intuitive, human-scale process that empowers citizens and builds social capital. This book does not attempt to offer a clear path but helps perceive the mountain. It is a valuable fin de siecle (siecle) collection that moves administrative theory forward on its intellectual journey. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice

"Fascinating, sometimes frustrating, and important, this sparkling collection of essays by leading theorists explores the impacts of emerging social and cultural trends on administrative theory. Indeed, the editor believes there is an imperative to "rethink theory." Jun has assembled a powerful set of essays that seek to find meaning and give shape to the impact of the democracy movement, globalization, information explosion, cultural fragmentation, and individualism. The language often flirts with postmodernism, but it holds great potential to loosen up contemporary thinking. The thread holding this collection together is a belief that rationalist, managerial, hierarchical approaches (20th century) are destructive of human values and aspirations. Much of this is leading edge, but there is a small failure to recall "New Public Administration." The challenge is not to substitute new models for old ones but to complement the dominant rationalist bias with a decentralized, intuitive, human-scale process that empowers citizens and builds social capital. This book does not attempt to offer a clear path but helps perceive the mountain. It is a valuable fin de siecle (siecle) collection that moves administrative theory forward on its intellectual journey. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice