1st Edition

Evolutionary Critical Theory and Its Role in Public Affairs

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how to assess its implications for everyday practice.

Chapter 1 Précis; Chapter 2 Public Administration as Discipline and the Estrangement of Theory; Chapter 3 Ontology and Theory in Public Administration; Chapter 4 Critical Theory and Public Administration; Chapter 5 Evolutionary Critical Theory; Chapter 6 Evolutionary Critical Theory, Power, and Emancipation; Chapter 7 Evolutionary Critical Theory and the “Good Society”; Chapter 8 Evolutionary Critical Theory and Public Administration;

Biography

Charles Frederick Abel, Arthur J. Sementelli,