As you would have thought, the social and political events of the late 1960 's challenged the value-neutrality of public administration scholarship; academic scholarship could not ignore the real-life discord of poverty, unemployment, and disease during periods of economic growth that were affecting the lives of people and creating mistrust in government. The reaction to those events was the rise of a self-proclaimed new Public Administration, a movement with an intellectual commitment to social equity and democratization of public organizations. At the first Minnowbrook Conference in 1968 at Syracuse University entitled Toward a New Public Administration, the general focus was on political change and theoretical relevance to reimagine how
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333). Accordingly, Public Administration is public policy making, and as a concept, it must unite politics and management. This argument is fruitfully presented in the example of policy making without administration, practicably, Lambright goes on to fully explicate this position through specific examples in the executive branch and the State Department to present the need for politics, administration, and values. Lambright discusses the great stress on values in the conversations at Minnowbrook, and writes, “it was recognized that the administrator should follow his own conscious. It was recognized that a public administrator’s values inevitable entered into his decisions” (p. 341-342). In the fashion of rethinking, redefining and restructuring existing systems, Lambright concludes that future public administrators “must be able understand social science, to be able to use the knowledge that is available, and, above all, know enough to ask the right questions” (p. 345). Therefore, the role of the university tis to give thought to educating administrators, as it does other professionals such as doctors and lawyers, training to think in policy-relevant …show more content…
Each of the authors make a serious attempt to develop normative standards that can guide administrators in their role in policy formation and implementation; all the authors ' approach to questions of value, and the ability of public administrators to pursue values that seem intuitively appealing, is complicated. Compelling reasons exist for considering the role of values influencing decision-making, however, there are inherent limitations in transferring theories across different
333). Accordingly, Public Administration is public policy making, and as a concept, it must unite politics and management. This argument is fruitfully presented in the example of policy making without administration, practicably, Lambright goes on to fully explicate this position through specific examples in the executive branch and the State Department to present the need for politics, administration, and values. Lambright discusses the great stress on values in the conversations at Minnowbrook, and writes, “it was recognized that the administrator should follow his own conscious. It was recognized that a public administrator’s values inevitable entered into his decisions” (p. 341-342). In the fashion of rethinking, redefining and restructuring existing systems, Lambright concludes that future public administrators “must be able understand social science, to be able to use the knowledge that is available, and, above all, know enough to ask the right questions” (p. 345). Therefore, the role of the university tis to give thought to educating administrators, as it does other professionals such as doctors and lawyers, training to think in policy-relevant …show more content…
Each of the authors make a serious attempt to develop normative standards that can guide administrators in their role in policy formation and implementation; all the authors ' approach to questions of value, and the ability of public administrators to pursue values that seem intuitively appealing, is complicated. Compelling reasons exist for considering the role of values influencing decision-making, however, there are inherent limitations in transferring theories across different