Legitimacy in Public Administration: A Discourse Analysis

by O . C. McSwite

Overview

This volume faces the challenge of the 21st century in this masterly analysis of the legitimate options open to public administration in a democratic society. Against a background of globalization of markets, increased prejudice, and racial and ethnic violence, the author demonstrates the centrality of administrative legitimacy to a 21st century that is an improvement over the 20th.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761902744
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/02/1997
Series:	Rethinking Public Administration , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

Table of Contents

The Legitimacy Issue and Academic Discourse
The Framing of the Issue
The Political Background of the Issue
The Misfounding of the Field
A Selected Intellectual History of the Field I
The Founding through Simon's Modernism
A Selected Intellectual History of the Field II
From Minnowbrook to the Present
Beyond Reason