Research in public administration : reflections on theory and practice

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Foreword: Research Ideals and Realities / Chester A. Newland = ⅸ
• Preface = xiii
• 1. Making Sense With Diversity: The Context of Research, Theory, and Knowledge Development in Public Administration / Jay D. White ; Guy B. Adams = 1
• Part 1 The Nature of Research in Public Administration = 23
• 2. Enthralled With Modernity: The Historical Context of Knowledge and Theory Deyelopment in Public Administration / Guy B. Adams = 25
• 3. On the Growth of Knowledge in Public Administration / Jay D. White = 42
• 4. A Science of Public Administration? / Gregory A. Daneke = 60
• 5. An Examination of the Debate Oyer Research in Public Administration / Richard C. Box = 75
• Part 2 Assessments of Published Research = 91
• 6. Research Methodology in the Public Administration Review, 1975-1984 / James L. Perry ; Kenneth L. Kraemer = 93
• 7. Public Administration Research: Work in PAR, 1940-1984 / Robert A. Stallings ; James M. Ferris = 110
• 8. Public Administration Research: An Assessment of Journal Publications / David J. Houston ; Sybil M. Delevan = 124
• Part 3 Assessments of Doctoral Research and Education = 139
• 9. Dissertations and Publications in Public Administration / Jay D. White = 141
• 10. Revisiting the Doctoral Dissertation in Public Administration: An Examination of the Dissertations of 1990 / Robert E. Cleary = 157
• 11. Doctoral Programs in Public Administration: An Outsider's Perspective / Robert A. Stallings = 171
• Part 4 Research and Knowledge Development in an Applied Professional Field = 181
• 12. Do Physicists Use Case Studies? Thoughts on Public Administration Research / Mary Timney Bailey = 183
• 13. Policy Analysis in the Postpositivist Era: Engaging Stakeholders in Evaluating the Economic Development District's Program / Marisa Kelly ; Steven Maynard-Moody = 197
• 14. Grout: Alternative Kinds of Knowledge and Why They Are Ignored / Mary R. Schmidt = 213
• 15. Stories Managers Tell: Why They Are as Valid as Science / Ralph P. Hummel = 225
• References = 246
• Author Index = 264
• Subject Index = 270
• About the Authors = 277