Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration : Progressive Values in Public Administration (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. The Case for Progressive Values; Making a Difference; Regressive and Progressive Values; A Conceptual Framework; 2. Describing the Value Pairs; Aggressiveness/Cooperation; Belief/Knowledge; Economics as End/Economics as Means; Great Inequality/Limited Inequality; Earth as Resource/Earth as Home; 3. Practice and Change; The Public Professional as Agent of Change; Creating Change in Policy and Practice; 4. Normative Teaching and Scholarship; Beyond the Given: Normative Thought in Public Administration; Against the Grain: Teaching Progressive Values; Acceptance and Refusal: Analysis of Current Conditions; Contingent Theory; 5. Toward a Progressive Future; "Small Junctures of Theory and Practice"; References; Index; About the Author.