From Public Administration to Public Management: Reassessing a Revolution?

Andrew Gray; Bill Jenkins

doi:10.1016/S0732-1317(06)15023-X

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Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management

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From Public Administration to Public Management: Reassessing a Revolution?

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Title:	From Public Administration to Public Management: Reassessing a Revolution?
Author(s):	Andrew Gray, Bill Jenkins
Volume:	15 Editor(s): Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind ISBN: 978-0-76231-359-4 eISBN: 978-1-84950-453-9
Citation:	Andrew Gray, Bill Jenkins (2006), From Public Administration to Public Management: Reassessing a Revolution?, in Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind (ed.) Comparative Public Administration (Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, Volume 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.543-572
DOI:	10.1016/S0732-1317(06)15023-X (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Extract:	It is a point of continuing debate whether the study of public administration can in any circumstances be graced by a disciplinary label. Rhodes (1996), for example, has argued that the study of British public administration was traditionally insular, dominated for a long period by an institutionalist tradition characterized by an interest in administrative engineering, but a distaste for theory. As Rhodes also observes, this position emphasized, albeit in a traditional sense, the political and ethical context of administration public administration existed within a wider framework of accountability relationships and political and moral responsibilities. We might add to this the way government and public administration was seen as linked within a framework of administrative law, which, while not formalized in the sense of continental Europe, was important.