Guy B Adams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3610273 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Guy B Adams |
| NOMBRES | Guy B |
| APELLIDO | Adams |
| FIRMA | ADAMS G B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2399-803X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Toward a Political Economy of Regime Values, Ethics, and Institutions in a Context of Globalization and Hypermodernity
In this article, we discuss the recent ascendancy of the market state and its consequences for regime values, ethics, and institutions. Three types of market states—entrepreneurial, managerial, and mercantile—are outlined, along with their primary ethical basis and associated public values. We then turn to a discussion of globalization and hypermodernity, which we argue characterize the current global cultural context. Difficult as it may be to i…
Editors’ Statement
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H. George Frederickson as Exemplar of “The Skill Set of the Successful Collaborator”
"Toward Restoring Integrity in "Praetorian Times
This article discusses the historical and cultural conditions that have undermined public life and have brought about a resurgence of corrupt "Praetorian times." An analysis of American regime values, focusing on individualism and the dominance of technical rationality, outlines the pathway to a withered public sphere made worse by the ascendancy of the market-state. Understanding current conditions as Praetorian, as unmasked by the financial mel…
On Thinking Institutionally ‐ by Hugh Heclo
Reply to Professor Koven
The Problem of Administrative Evil in a Culture of Technical Rationality
The prevailing cultural context in the modern age, with its emphasis on technical rationality, has enabled a new and dangerous form of evil. The Holocaust was the signal event marking the emergence of administrative evil, but the tendency toward administrative evil, as manifested in acts of dehumanization and genocide, is deeply woven into the identity of professions in public life. The common characteristic of administrative evil is that ordinar…
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Market-Based Government and the Decline of Organizational Ethics
This article discusses ethical challenges posed by market-based government and the degree to which contracting enhances or diminishes government’s ability to ensure that organizations that deliver public services adhere to ethical practices and public values, such as lawfulness, transparency, and accountability. A case study of an organization—Blackwater (now, Xe)—vividly illustrates the considerable difficulty in achieving ethical organizations …
Editors' Statement
Editors' Statement
Rethinking the “Banality of Evil”
Expiating Evil
Evil actions by human beings show little sign of diminution as the twenty‐first century unfolds. Evil can be defined as the knowing infliction of pain and suffering – physical and/or psychological – on another human being. It can be perpetrated by individuals, by organizations, and by nation states, among others. It can take the form of administrative evil, in which people participate in acts of evil while thinking they are just doing what they s…
Expiating Evil’
We are grateful to Professor Tschudi for his thoughtful comments on our article.No single article can encompass the breadth and depth of the problem of evil and its expiation, so we consider comments such as these a welcome contribution to an underdeveloped discourse.We certainly agree with Professor Tschudi that violations of human dignity can and often do constitute acts of evil, and would point out the close similarity to the defi nition of ev…
Editors' Statement
Abu Ghraib, Administrative Evil, and Moral Inversion
The torture and abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and at other sites in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba raise disturbing questions that have few, if any, easy answers. Were these intentionally evil acts committed by a few bad apples who took advantage of the power they wielded over the detainees? Or were they cases of administrative evil in which the obvious evil of torture and abuse was masked from the perpetrators, including those who perform…
Editors’ Statement
In Appreciation of Bayard Catron
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In Service of the Leviathan
In this paper, we argue that the practice of New Public Management (NPM) subverts democracy by undermining the social contract and substituting a market mentality with very different normative expectations. Like late modern Hobbesians, those who advocate NPM offer a vision of public service in which democratic politics and ethics become increasingly irrelevant. In this scenario, the market becomes the new leviathan, which we have no choice but to…
Uncovering the Political Philosophy of the New Public Management
Uncovering the Political Philosophy of the New Public Management." Administrative Theory & Praxis, 22(3), pp. 498–499
The Psychodynamics of Ethical behavior in Organizations
There are many aspects of organizational life-ethics prominent among them-in which things, and particularly behavior, are not what they seem. A psychodynamic approach to these apparent paradoxes helps greatly in shedding light on these areas. Much as a psycho-dynamic approach to organizational analysis has helped us see many aspects of organizational life that were less visible, so too can this approach aid us in understanding what fosters ethica…
Unmasking Administrative Evil
Abu Ghraib, Administrative Evil, and Moral Inversion
The torture and abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and at other sites in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba raise disturbing questions that have few, if any, easy answers. Were these intentionally evil acts committed by a few bad apples who took advantage of the power they wielded over the detainees? Or were they cases of administrative evil in which the obvious evil of torture and abuse was masked from the perpetrators, including those who perform…
The Problem of Administrative Evil in a Culture of Technical Rationality
The prevailing cultural context in the modern age, with its emphasis on technical rationality, has enabled a new and dangerous form of evil. The Holocaust was the signal event marking the emergence of administrative evil, but the tendency toward administrative evil, as manifested in acts of dehumanization and genocide, is deeply woven into the identity of professions in public life. The common characteristic of administrative evil is that ordinar…
Ethics and the Chimera of Professionalism
Like the Chimera of Greek mythology—an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts—professionalism has assimilated ethics as a part of its ordinary definition. In this paper, the relationship between professionalism and ethics is examined in historical context, which suggests the association of the two occurred during and just after the Progressive Era. It was during this period of time that technical rationality overwhelmed earlier underst…
Market-Based Government and the Decline of Organizational Ethics
This article discusses ethical challenges posed by market-based government and the degree to which contracting enhances or diminishes government’s ability to ensure that organizations that deliver public services adhere to ethical practices and public values, such as lawfulness, transparency, and accountability. A case study of an organization—Blackwater (now, Xe)—vividly illustrates the considerable difficulty in achieving ethical organizations …
In Service of the Leviathan
In this paper, we argue that the practice of New Public Management (NPM) subverts democracy by undermining the social contract and substituting a market mentality with very different normative expectations. Like late modern Hobbesians, those who advocate NPM offer a vision of public service in which democratic politics and ethics become increasingly irrelevant. In this scenario, the market becomes the new leviathan, which we have no choice but to…
Budgetary Reform Through Organizational Learning
The legacy of budgetary reform has been dismal. Promising options, rooted in economic values, seem to fall short when confronted with political realities. Nevertheless, the search continues. The authors argue that successful budgetary reform requires attention to the organizational context, in particular human behavioral dynamics. The objectives and execution of budgetary reform must "match" the dynamic objectives and needs of the organization. M…
Beyond Organizational Boundaries
Many of the meanings of organizational symbols, rituals, stories and roles are ultimately given by the larger social context in which all organizations operate, so to understand the symbolic properties of an organization fully it is important to look beyond any individual system. This paper examines a set of beliefs called the managerial metamyth, a portion of the belief system that underlies much organizational symbolic activity. Examples are gi…
Diversity or Cacophony? The Research Enterprise in Public Administration
"Toward Restoring Integrity in "Praetorian Times
This article discusses the historical and cultural conditions that have undermined public life and have brought about a resurgence of corrupt "Praetorian times." An analysis of American regime values, focusing on individualism and the dominance of technical rationality, outlines the pathway to a withered public sphere made worse by the ascendancy of the market-state. Understanding current conditions as Praetorian, as unmasked by the financial mel…
Expiating Evil
Evil actions by human beings show little sign of diminution as the twenty‐first century unfolds. Evil can be defined as the knowing infliction of pain and suffering – physical and/or psychological – on another human being. It can be perpetrated by individuals, by organizations, and by nation states, among others. It can take the form of administrative evil, in which people participate in acts of evil while thinking they are just doing what they s…
Organizational Metapaiterns
Recurring tacit patterns of relationships, called here metapatterns, represent an important, but largely neglected, focus for researchers interested in organizational culture. How metapatterns emerge and how they manifest themselves in organizational behavior is discussed at some length. Metapatterns, which comprise the tacit level of interpersonal and group interaction in organizations, are linked to other levels of analysis. The implications of…
Culture, Technical Rationality, and Organizational Culture
The authors suggest that the importance of the culture at large has not been adequately addressed in the literature on organizational culture. Technical rationality represents a central part of the culture at large in the modern age. The roots of technical rationality are traced to the beginning of this century, and it is suggested that technical rationality constitutes a powerful set of beliefs in the organizational world, called here the manage…
Toward a Political Economy of Regime Values, Ethics, and Institutions in a Context of Globalization and Hypermodernity
In this article, we discuss the recent ascendancy of the market state and its consequences for regime values, ethics, and institutions. Three types of market states—entrepreneurial, managerial, and mercantile—are outlined, along with their primary ethical basis and associated public values. We then turn to a discussion of globalization and hypermodernity, which we argue characterize the current global cultural context. Difficult as it may be to i…
Reply to Professor Koven
Expiating Evil’
We are grateful to Professor Tschudi for his thoughtful comments on our article.No single article can encompass the breadth and depth of the problem of evil and its expiation, so we consider comments such as these a welcome contribution to an underdeveloped discourse.We certainly agree with Professor Tschudi that violations of human dignity can and often do constitute acts of evil, and would point out the close similarity to the defi nition of ev…
Uncovering the Political Philosophy of the New Public Management
Uncovering the Political Philosophy of the New Public Management." Administrative Theory & Praxis, 22(3), pp. 498–499
The Psychodynamics of Ethical behavior in Organizations
There are many aspects of organizational life-ethics prominent among them-in which things, and particularly behavior, are not what they seem. A psychodynamic approach to these apparent paradoxes helps greatly in shedding light on these areas. Much as a psycho-dynamic approach to organizational analysis has helped us see many aspects of organizational life that were less visible, so too can this approach aid us in understanding what fosters ethica…
Communitarianism, Vickers, and Revisioning American Public Administration
Classical liberalism and the unrestrained individualism that is of its essence are inappropriate for current ever-increasing interdependence. Recent communitarian thinking in the United States suggests that the exclusive pursuit of private interest is, in fact, inimical in the long run to individual liberty. Sustained policy change depends, however, on a fundamental rethinking of ethics and epistemology; Vickers's concept of appreciation is an im…
Reconstituting the Human Position in Social Systems Design and Delimitation
Beyond Organizational Boundaries
Many of the meanings of organizational symbols, rituals, stories and roles are ultimately given by the larger social context in which all organizations operate, so to understand the symbolic properties of an organization fully it is important to look beyond any individual system. This paper examines a set of beliefs called the managerial metamyth, a portion of the belief system that underlies much organizational symbolic activity. Examples are gi…
Culture, Technical Rationality, and Organizational Culture
The authors suggest that the importance of the culture at large has not been adequately addressed in the literature on organizational culture. Technical rationality represents a central part of the culture at large in the modern age. The roots of technical rationality are traced to the beginning of this century, and it is suggested that technical rationality constitutes a powerful set of beliefs in the organizational world, called here the manage…
Enthralled with Modernity
What impact has the culture of had on the field of public administration? Guy B. Adams contends that the American cultural preoccupation with modernity has shaped the study of puhlic administration into an ahistorical and atemporal field that stresses technical rationality and has limited capacity to address critical questions facing society. This approach to public administration puts its emphasis on professionalism and the scientific and rigoro…
Ethics and the Chimera of Professionalism
Like the Chimera of Greek mythology—an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts—professionalism has assimilated ethics as a part of its ordinary definition. In this paper, the relationship between professionalism and ethics is examined in historical context, which suggests the association of the two occurred during and just after the Progressive Era. It was during this period of time that technical rationality overwhelmed earlier underst…
Organizational Metapaiterns
Recurring tacit patterns of relationships, called here metapatterns, represent an important, but largely neglected, focus for researchers interested in organizational culture. How metapatterns emerge and how they manifest themselves in organizational behavior is discussed at some length. Metapatterns, which comprise the tacit level of interpersonal and group interaction in organizations, are linked to other levels of analysis. The implications of…
Dissertation Research in Public Administration and Cognate Fields
How does dissertation research in public administration compare with cognate fields in terms of method and quality? Guy B. Adams andJay D. White compare the dissertation researchfrom 1992 in public administration, criminology, management, planning, social work and women 's studies. Comparativefindings are presented on methods used, on the general characteristic of the dissertations, and on quality. The lack of theoretical research, or
Blindsided by the Elephant
Organization Culture
Communitarianism, Vickers, and Revisioning American Public Administration
Classical liberalism and the unrestrained individualism that is of its essence are inappropriate for current ever-increasing interdependence. Recent communitarian thinking in the United States suggests that the exclusive pursuit of private interest is, in fact, inimical in the long run to individual liberty. Sustained policy change depends, however, on a fundamental rethinking of ethics and epistemology; Vickers's concept of appreciation is an im…
Diversity or Cacophony? The Research Enterprise in Public Administration
Knowledge and Theory Development in Public Administration
The purpose of doctoral education and research in public administration might seem almost self-evident. If public administration were thought of like most other social science disciplines, the traditional purpose of the doctorate - the development and dissemination of knowledge relevant to the field and preparation of the professoriate - would hold for public administration as well. Most academics in public administration may continue to think of…
The Wheel of Fortune
Editors' Statement
Budgetary Reform Through Organizational Learning
The legacy of budgetary reform has been dismal. Promising options, rooted in economic values, seem to fall short when confronted with political realities. Nevertheless, the search continues. The authors argue that successful budgetary reform requires attention to the organizational context, in particular human behavioral dynamics. The objectives and execution of budgetary reform must "match" the dynamic objectives and needs of the organization. M…
Unmasking Administrative Evil
The Psychodynamics of Ethical behavior in Organizations
There are many aspects of organizational life-ethics prominent among them-in which things, and particularly behavior, are not what they seem. A psychodynamic approach to these apparent paradoxes helps greatly in shedding light on these areas. Much as a psycho-dynamic approach to organizational analysis has helped us see many aspects of organizational life that were less visible, so too can this approach aid us in understanding what fosters ethica…
In Service of the Leviathan
In this paper, we argue that the practice of New Public Management (NPM) subverts democracy by undermining the social contract and substituting a market mentality with very different normative expectations. Like late modern Hobbesians, those who advocate NPM offer a vision of public service in which democratic politics and ethics become increasingly irrelevant. In this scenario, the market becomes the new leviathan, which we have no choice but to…
Uncovering the Political Philosophy of the New Public Management
Uncovering the Political Philosophy of the New Public Management." Administrative Theory & Praxis, 22(3), pp. 498–499
In Appreciation of Bayard Catron
Editors’ Statement
Editors’ Statement
Editors' Statement
Abu Ghraib, Administrative Evil, and Moral Inversion
The torture and abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and at other sites in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba raise disturbing questions that have few, if any, easy answers. Were these intentionally evil acts committed by a few bad apples who took advantage of the power they wielded over the detainees? Or were they cases of administrative evil in which the obvious evil of torture and abuse was masked from the perpetrators, including those who perform…
Editors' Statement
Political science (35 obras) · Sociology (27 obras) · Law (24 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies (10 obras) · Human auditory perception and evaluation (10 obras) · Statement (logic (10 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (9 obras)