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DEBATING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities

American Society for Public Administration
Book Series on Public Administration & Public Policy

David H. Rosenbloom, Ph.D.

Editor-in-Chief

Mission: Throughout its history, ASPA has sought to be true to its founding principles of promoting scholarship and professionalism within the public service. The ASPA Book Series on Public Administration and Public Policy publishes books that increase national and international interest for public administration and which discuss practical or cutting edge topics in engaging ways of interest to practitioners, policy-makers, and those concerned with bringing scholarship to the practice of public administration.

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Debating Public Administration

Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities

Edited by
Robert F. Durant
Jennifer R.S. Durant

First published 2013 by Taylor & Francis

Published 2019 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Debating public administration : management challenges, choices, and opportunities /

editors, Robert F. Durant, Jennifer R.S. Durant.

p. cm. (ASPA series in public administration and public policy)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4665-0236-9

1. Public administration. I. Durant, Robert F., 1949- II. Durant, Jennifer R.S.

JF1351.D435 2012

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2012028260

ISBN: 978-1-4665-0236-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-3150-9509-7 (ebk)

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In memory of Frederick C. Mosher

Contents

AUTHORS: SERGIO FERNANDEZ AND HAL G. RAINEY
COMMENTATORS: PATRICK E. CONNOR FRED THOMPSON, J. CHRISTOPHER MIHM, AND MARY TSCHIRHART

AUTHORS: JAMES L. PERRY, TRENT A. ENGBERS, AND SO YUN JUN
COMMENTATORS: DAVID J. HOUSTON, SANJAY K. PANDEY, AND HOWARD RISHER

AUTHORS: SHARON S. DAWES, ANTHONY M. CRESSWELL, AND THERESA A. PARDO
COMMENTATORS: LISA BLOMGREN BINGHAM AND SHARON L. CAUDLE

AUTHORS: JULIET MUSSO, CHRISTOPHER WEARE, THOMAS BRYER, AND TERRY L. COOPER
COMMENTATORS: BRIAN J. COOK, TINA NABATCHI, AND JOHN CLAYTON THOMAS

AUTHOR: DAVID H. ROSENBLOOM
COMMENTATOR: JOHN M. KAMENSKY

AUTHORS: FRED THOMPSON AND BRUCE L. GATES
COMMENTATORS: ROY T. MEYERS AND KATHERINE G. WILLOUGHBY

AUTHORS: TREVOR L. BROWN, MATTHEW POTOSKI, AND DAVID M. VAN SLYKE
COMMENTATORS: RUTH H. DEHOOG, SUZANNE J. PIOTROWSKI, THOMAS F. REILLY AND ANDREW B. WHITFORD

AUTHORS: STEPHEN E. CONDREY AND R. PAUL BATTAGLIO, JR.
COMMENTATORS: FRANK D. FERRIS, NORMA M. RICCUCCI, AND FRANK J. THOMPSON

AUTHOR: SALLY COLEMAN SELDEN
COMMENTATORS: DOMONIC A. BEARFIELD, LAEL R. KEISER, AND SHARON H. MASTRACCI

AUTHORS: RICHARD C. FEIOCK, M. JAE MOON, AND HYUNG JUN PARK
COMMENTATORS: WILLIAM LYONS, LAURA A. REESE, JOHN C. MORRIS, AND DOUGLAS J. WATSON

AUTHOR: NANCY C. ROBERTS
COMMENTATOR: ROBERT ROBIN H. DORFF

AUTHORS: EDELLA SCHLAGER AND TANYA HEIKKILA
COMMENTATOR: ELISABETH A. GRAFFY

Guide

When Fritz Mosher ended his three-year term as editor of Public Administration Review {PAR) in 1956, he penned a perceptive wrap-up editorial that outlined several ideas for advancing public administration research. One suggestion he had was to add a regular PAR feature devoted to translating for practitioners the latest administrative science research developments. These would be timely in response to their needs, practical in application, and easily comprehensible. In many respects, that idea has always been the central mission of PAR. In PAR' s inaugural issue in 1940, the American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) first president, William Mosher, set forth its goal, namely, to be "practical in content and scholarly in tone." However, with the acceleration of university-based administrative research by the mid-1950s, Fritz Mosher foresaw a pressing imperative to dedicate periodic journal pages to cover new theoretical innovations relevant for those on the "firing line."

The idea languished for a half century. In 2006, however, after our new PAR editorial team was appointed and assumed formal publication responsibilities, seven new journal sections were created. Each had its own associate editor and peer-review board to ensure quality. The intent was to widen significantly the coverage in PAR plus provide greater depth of analysis for topics that were well beyond what the journal received from the normal flow of manuscripts submitted through its general peer-review pipeline. Clearly, the sheer size, sophistication, speed, and breadth of administrative science research had grown exponentially by the twenty-first century. PAR needed to cover these rapidly changing developments to enhance both individual administrator's and the entire profession's capabilities to perform effectively, especially given its prime role as the journal of record for the field.

But how? The editors at the outset saw the urgent necessity for a new PAR section, ultimately called Theory to Practice (T2P), but they honestly had no idea how to make it happen. Happily they recruited the right person six years ago. Bob Durant quickly turned a vague, fuzzy notion into an amazing, much admired, prominent PAR feature. From our perspective as editors, T2P ultimately surpassed our wildest expectations. Note in the table of contents the wide range of seminal contemporary public administration issues addressed and the immense number of authors and commentators recruitedsenior/junior, academic/practitioner, from diverse backgrounds, regions, and institutions. These articles consistently focused on digging into what we know and do not know about salient administrative problems, and where we should go from here for developing the next steps to advance research and practice. So what you read in this book sums up intensive discussions and debates over several years among the field's best and brightest who wrestle with many of today's most vexing ad ministrative conundrums.

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