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Public Administration's Final Exam
2011,2006
Overview
Examines why public administration’s literature has
failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an
instrument of governance Michael Harmon employs the
literary conceit of a Final Exam, first “written” in
the early 1930s, in a critique of the field’s answers to
the legitimacy question. Because the assumptions that underwrite
the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the
exam should be canceled and its question rewritten. Envisaging a
public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy
question, Harmon explains how the study and practice of public
administration might proceed from adolescence to maturity.
Drawing chiefly from pragmatist philosophy, he argues that
despite the universal rejection of the
“politics/administration” dichotomy on factual
grounds, the pseudo-problem of legitimacy nonetheless persists in
the guise of four related conceptual dualisms: 1) values and
facts, 2) thinking and doing, 3) ends and means, and 4) theory
and practice. Collectively, these dualisms demand an impossible
answer to the practical question of how we might live, and
govern, together in a world of radical uncertainty and
interdependence. Only by dissolving them can the legitimacy
question (Woodrow Wilson’s ghost) finally be banished,
clearing away the theoretical debris that obscures a more vital
and useful conception of governance.
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Subject
ISBN
081731539X, 9780817315399
