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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION .................17775$ $$FM 05-20-1014:08:12 PS PAGEi PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND CHANGE SERIES BerylA.Radin,SeriesEditor EditorialBoard RobertAgranoff WilliamGormley MichaelBarzelay RosemaryO’Leary AnnO’M.Bowman NormaM.Riccucci H.GeorgeFrederickson DavidH.Rosenbloom TitlesintheSeries ChallengingthePerformanceMovement:Accountability,Complexity,and DemocraticValues,BerylA.Radin CharitableChoiceatWork:EvaluatingFaith-BasedJobProgramsinthe States,SheilaSuessKennedyandWolfgangBielefeld TheCollaborativePublicManager:NewIdeasfortheTwenty-firstCentury, RosemaryO’LearyandLisaBlomgrenBingham,Editors TheDynamicsofPerformanceManagement:ConstructingInformationand Reform,DonaldP.Moynihan TheGreeningoftheU.S.Military:EnvironmentalPolicy,NationalSecurity, andOrganizationalChange,RobertF.Durant HowManagementMatters:Street-LevelBureaucratsandWelfareReform, NormaM.Riccucci ImplementingInnovation:FosteringEnduringChangeinEnvironmentaland NaturalResourceGovernance,ToddiA.Steelman ManagingwithinNetworks:AddingValuetoPublicOrganizations,Robert Agranoff MeasuringthePerformanceoftheHollowState,DavidG.Fredericksonand H.GeorgeFrederickson OrganizationalLearningatNASA:TheChallengerandColumbiaAccidents, JulianneG.MahlerwithMaureenHoganCasamayou PublicValuesandPublicInterest:CounterbalancingEconomicIndividualism, BarryBozeman TheResponsibleContractManager:ProtectingthePublicInterestinan OutsourcedWorld,StevenCohenandWilliamEimicke RevisitingWaldo’sAdministrativeState:ConstancyandChangeinPublic Administration,DavidH.RosenbloomandHowardE.McCurdy .................17775$ $$FM 05-20-1014:08:13 PS PAGEii PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge N O R M A M . R I C C U C C I Georgetown University Press / Washington, D.C. .................17775$ $$FM 05-20-1014:08:13 PS PAGEiii (cid:2)2010GeorgetownUniversityPress.Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmay bereproducedorutilizedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical, includingphotocopyingandrecording,orbyanyinformationstorageandretrieval system,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Riccucci,Norma. Publicadministration:traditionsofinquiryandphilosophiesofknowledge/ NormaM.Riccucci. p. cm.—(Publicmanagementandchangeseries) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-58901-704-7(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Publicadministration. I.Title. JF1351.R4648 2010 351—dc22 2010001636 (cid:3)(cid:2) Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepapermeetingtherequirementsofthe AmericanNationalStandardforPermanenceinPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials. 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Firstprinting PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica .................17775$ $$FM 05-20-1014:08:14 PS PAGEiv In memory of my beloved parents, Tosca and Giorgio Riccucci .................17775$ $$FM 05-20-1014:08:14 PS PAGEv .................17775$ $$FM 05-20-1014:08:14 PS PAGEvi CONTENTS ListofIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 IntellectualHeritageandTheoreticalDevelopments:IsPublic AdministrationanArtoraScience? 6 2 Searchingfor aParadigm:Public Administrationasa PostnormalScience 21 3 IdentityCrisesintheSocialSciences 31 4 Searchingfor Truth:TheLogicofInquiryinPublic Administration 45 5 TheoryBuildingthroughQualitativeApproaches 65 6 TheoryBuildingthroughQuantitativeResearch 97 7 TheoryBuildingthroughMixed-MethodResearch 108 8 HeterogeneityinEpistemicTraditions 116 References 127 Index 157 vii .................17775$ CNTS 05-20-1014:08:16 PS PAGEvii .................17775$ CNTS 05-20-1014:08:16 PS PAGEviii ILLUSTRATIONS Figure1.1 ADisciplinaryContinuum:FromSciencetoArt 17 Table4.1 ThePhilosophyofScience: ComparingResearch ApproachesintheSocialSciences 47 Table4.2 AComparisonofResearchApproachestoStudiesof Representative Bureaucracy 52 Table4.3 AComparativeViewofValidity,Reliability,and Generalizability 61 Table8.1 SummaryandExamplesofEpistemicApproachesto theStudyofPublic Administration 118 ix .................17775$ ILLU 05-20-1014:08:19 PS PAGEix .................17775$ ILLU 05-20-1014:08:19 PS PAGEx

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Is public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack of consensus among scholars. The resulting divide has produced many heated debates; however, in this pioneering volume, Norma Riccucci embra
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