Brandon Ching
PAF 602 (Fall 2008)
Abstract
Stivers, C. M. (2002). Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era (Studies in Government and Public Policy). University Press Of Kansas.
Camilla Stivers’ Bureau Men, Settlement Women is a historical reconstruction of the early days of public administration with a particular emphasis on gender influences. Focusing on the Progressive Era, Stivers dichotomizes municipal research bureaus and settlement houses as distinct yet complimentary forms of governmental reform organizations central to the rise of the administrative state. Research bureaus, focused on objective and procedural efficiency in administration, are identified as masculine; while settlement houses, focused on substantive social improvement, are seen as feminine. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: abstract, efficiency, Progressive, public administration, reconstruction
Brandon Ching
PAF 602 (Fall 2008)
Abstract
Follett, M. P. (1998). The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government. Pennsylvania State University Press.
Mary Parker Follett’s The New State is a declaration of unity over individualism and neighborhood groups over party organizations. Follett attests that our representative government has failed and that democracy, “by the numbers” is not a true democracy. “…no one can give us democracy, we must learn democracy,” (p. 22) and according to Follett, that learned democracy is experienced in neighborhood groups. Within these groups, individuals come together and harmonize their ideas and needs into collective will and action. To Follett, this is the foundation of a popular democracy. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: abstract, critique, democracy, mary parker follett, Progressive, the new state
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