Big Enigmas by Ken Mikolowski
From its modern start onwards, the field of Public Administration has been practice-oriented. Its normative position has had consequences for the choice of the themes studied and the recommendations given. Reforms have often been defended as universal truths or global trends, irrespective of public preferences or differences in political regimes. There has been little attention to societal plurality and discrepancies in collective choices. In order to make Public Administration more practically relevant, this book argues for broadening its locus and focus. Public Administration is more than the study of government. It can be considered as the study of public reasoning. That reasoning takes place in politics as well as in administration and societal institutions. With regard to its focus, Public Administration has to take politics and law into account as well. We need to recognize that government is a state and that the state-like and public character of it has unique consequences. Public Administration has a normative core, with an emphasis on the democratic Rechtsstaat (constitutional state), and with the procedural and substantive values connected to it. It has to reflect on the values of the public culture we live in. Subject: Public Administration, Public Policy]
Ken Mikolowski is the author of four previous books, Thank You Call Again, little mysteries, Big Enigmas, and Remember Me. His poems have been published in Brooklyn Rail, Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, and Abandon Automobile, A Detroit Anthology, and have been recorded by the Frank Carlberg Group. Mikolowski teaches poetry writing at the University of Michigan and, along with his wife Ann, was publisher, editor, and printer of The Alternative Press. He lives in Ann Arbor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780962247446 |
| ISBN 10 | 0962247448 |
| Titel | Big Enigmas |
| Autor | Ken Mikolowski |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Past Tents Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1991-01-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 77 |
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