Logics of Legitimacy: Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis

WHY AND HOW THE TRADITIONS FRAMEWORK WAS CREATED The Legitimacy Question Why Worry about Role Conceptualization? Professional Socialization in Public Administration IntroductionThe Importance of Role Conceptualization in Public Administration What Is Role Conceptualization? How Role Conception Is Formed Step 1: Practitioner Acts as Role Taker Step 2: Role Performance Is Performed and Assessed Step 3: Experience Impacts Role Conception and Conceptualization Step 4: Pedagogy Transmits Role Conceptualizations Using Theoretical Frameworks as Interpretive Lenses Introduction Developing and Assessing Theoretical Frameworks Significant Focus Organizing Capacity Coherency Frameworks in Public Administration Dwight Waldo David Rosenbloom Richard Stillman Orion White David Farmer Jan Kooiman Historical Eras and Schools of Thought The Founding Era An Orthodoxy Emerges The Refounding Era The Reinventing Era The Transformational Era Summing Up Tradition as a Framework Metaphor How the Traditions Framework Was Created Introduction Employing the Ideal-Type Method Identify a Social Phenomenon of Interest Choose a Culturally Significant Frame of Reference Identify Essential Generic Elements Interpret Genetic Meanings Construct the Ideal-Types THE TRADITIONS FRAMEWORK The Generic Elements of Each Tradition Introduction Political Ontology Political Authority and Scope of Action Criterion of Proper Behavior Administrative Decision-Making Rationality Associated Organizing Style Assumed Governance Context Implications for Role Conceptualization Pulling the Type Together The Constitutional Tradition-Bureaucratic Accountability to the Constitutional Order Portrait of a Bureaucrat Introduction Political Ontology Political Authority and Scope of Action Criterion of Proper Behavior Accountability through Neutral Competence Accountability through Agency Conservation Administrative Decision-Making Rationality Organizing Style Assumed Governance Context Implications for Role Conceptualization Tradition Summary The Discretionary Tradition-Entrepreneurial Responsibility for Desirable Outcomes Portraits of Entrepreneurs Introduction Political Ontology Political Authority and Scope of Action Criterion of Proper Behavior Responsibility for Instrumental Outcomes Responsibility for Social Outcomes Summary Administrative Decision-Making Rationality Organizing Style Assumed Governance Context Implications for Role Conceptualization Tradition Summary The Collaborative Tradition-Stewardship Responsiveness to the Citizenry Portrait of a Steward Introduction Political Ontology Political Authority and Scope of Action Criterion of Proper Behavior "Administrative" Decision-Making Rationality Organizing Style Assumed Governance Context Implications for Role Conceptualization Tradition Summary CRITIQUE AND ANALYSIS Mutual Critiques among Traditions Introduction How the Traditions Fail to Achieve Their Own Logics Elected Officials Fail to Represent or Control Administrators Fail to Follow Orders or Rules Discretion Fails to Produce the Public Good Collaboration Fails to Produce the Public Good How the Traditions Fail According to Other Logics Democracy Is Inefficient and Ineffective Administrative Discretion Is Undemocratic Representation Is Problematic Government Has Been Captured by Market Interests or Self-Interest Collaboration Is Unconstitutional Collaboration Fails to Achieve the Public Interest (Because It Is Only Partial) Summing Up Integrations, Conciliations, and Dialectical Syntheses Introduction Key Integrations or Conciliations of Traditions Integrationist Approaches Conciliatory Approaches Summation Dialectical Relationship Within and Among Traditions Dialectic Within Traditions Dialectic Among Traditions Assessing Contextual Fit of the Traditions-A Mental Experiment Introduction The Emerging Contemporary Governance Context Critical Discussion Structural Fit Normative Fit Barriers to (R)Evolution How Do We Get There? Summation References Appendix: Foundations Course Outline Section 1: Introduction to the Course and Its Purpose in the MPA Program Section 2: The Landscape of Public Administration Theory Section 3: The Historical Roots of Public Administration Section 4: Competing Logics of Legitimacy in Public Administration Section 5: Putting Theory into Practice: Blended Logics and Individual Preferences Index