Michael M Harmon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 697726 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael M Harmon |
| NOMBRES | Michael M |
| APELLIDO | Harmon |
| FIRMA | HARMON M M |
| AFILIACIONES | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4384-337X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Implications of source, content, and style cues in curbing health misinformation and fake news
Purpose To provide human judgment input for computer algorithm development, this study examines the relative importance of source, content, and style cues in predicting the truthfulness ratings of two common types of online health information: news stories and institutional news releases. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a multi-method approach using (1) a manual content analysis of 400 randomly selected online health news stories …
Michael W. Spicer. In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
(2011). Michael W. Spicer. In Defense of Politics in Public Administration: A Value Pluralist Perspective. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 143-148
Truth, Telling the Truth, and Being Truthful
This article links Oliver Sacks's examination of receptive (or global) aphasia with Julian Jaynes's hypothesis concerning the origin of reflective consciousness to clarify the role of nonverbal communication in the constitution of ethical relationships. The vehicle for explicating that linkage is a recent play by Orion White, The Girl Who Changed into a Dog. Commentary on selected scenes from the play suggests a conception of ethics based on the …
You Can't Get There From Here
The brevity required in writing for an ATP Forum provides the au thor a handy excuse for failing to reach a tidy conclusion. Taking full advantage of that excuse, I will instead only ruminate about, and proba bly end up retaining, my intuition that the question of how public ad ministration (or anyone) can or should move from the 'is' to the 'ought' can't be answered. The pairing of here and there in my title contains a triple entendre. The first…
About Fred Thayer
Five Good Reasons Not to Act on Principle (or, Why You Probably Can't Act on Principle, Anyway)
This essay challenges the popular belief that principles either can or ought to play a decisive role in guiding or justifying moral decisions. The five reasons offered here hold that principled justification: 1) denies the aporetc, and hence the paradoxical, relation among opposing principles; 2) fails to consider the pathologies produced by the single-minded assertion of particular principles; 3) excludes a consideration of the role that feeling…
Dialogue
PAT-Net Turns Twenty-Five
Editor's note: This is an invited essay on the Public Administration Theory Network. Michael Harmon graciously agreed to sift through documents, communicate with people involved in development of the Network, and write a short history. The result is an interesting study in the relationship of a portion of public administration scholarship to the larger field, and it is timely because the Network is 25 years old this year. An essay such as this ca…
About Bayard Catron
Harmon Responds
Diversity in Social Science Theories
Books in review
"The Responsible Actor as "Tortured Soul
Administrative responsibility " connotes multiple and even conflicting meanings, including (a) political responsibility, which embodies the virtue of duty; (b) professional responsibility, embodying the virtue of integrity; and (c) personal responsibility, which reflects the qualities of self-awareness and authentic relationship. The theory of countervailing responsibility holds that any one of these three meanings is not only inadequate for a fu…
Decision" and "Action" as Contrasting Perspectives in Organization Theory
What, if Anything, is Teleology? The Ambiguous History of "Purpose" in Organizational Thought
A central point of departure of social and organizational systems theory from it origins in structural-functional sociology is the idea, drawn from cybernetic theory, that systems are, or may be interpreted as, naturally purposeful. Although the purposeful-or teleologicall" character of systems is typically defended on ostensibly scientific grounds, this paper argues that: (1) teleology has no valid status as a scientific idea, but is instead a q…
Organization Theory
Administrative Reform
Another Attempt at Dialogue
Action Theory in Practice
Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the laity. By conspiracy, Shaw meant the power of professions, by virtue of their exclusive roles in the creation and legitimation of specialized knowledge, to control or manipulate the presumed beneficiaries of that knowledge in the service of their (the professions') own ends. Public administration, since having attained professional status, is not exempt from this charge.…
Responsible Action and the Problem of Reification
This paper elaborates a “personal,” as opposed to an institutional, view of administrative responsibility. The idea of personal responsibility is better suited for appreciating the cognitive, conceptual, and interpersonal dynamics of policy processes than is the institutional view of responsibility as accountability. From the perspective of personal responsibility, the primary impediment to responsible action by policy makers, policy analysts, an…
A Response from Harmon
Social Equity and Organizational Man
Administrative Policy Formulation and the Public Interest
IMATIONG STUDENTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION the concept of has occasioned considerable debate, yet little consensus. Ironically, the lack of consensus in the academic community seems equalled only by the certainty with which official pronouncements are uttered in the name of public interest, a circumstance leading many scholars to abandon the concept altogether. While it is tempting to follow suit, such a collective quietude will in the long haul …
PAT-Net Turns Twenty-Five
Editor's note: This is an invited essay on the Public Administration Theory Network. Michael Harmon graciously agreed to sift through documents, communicate with people involved in development of the Network, and write a short history. The result is an interesting study in the relationship of a portion of public administration scholarship to the larger field, and it is timely because the Network is 25 years old this year. An essay such as this ca…
Administrative Policy Formulation and the Public Interest
IMATIONG STUDENTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION the concept of has occasioned considerable debate, yet little consensus. Ironically, the lack of consensus in the academic community seems equalled only by the certainty with which official pronouncements are uttered in the name of public interest, a circumstance leading many scholars to abandon the concept altogether. While it is tempting to follow suit, such a collective quietude will in the long haul …
Five Good Reasons Not to Act on Principle (or, Why You Probably Can't Act on Principle, Anyway)
This essay challenges the popular belief that principles either can or ought to play a decisive role in guiding or justifying moral decisions. The five reasons offered here hold that principled justification: 1) denies the aporetc, and hence the paradoxical, relation among opposing principles; 2) fails to consider the pathologies produced by the single-minded assertion of particular principles; 3) excludes a consideration of the role that feeling…
Implications of source, content, and style cues in curbing health misinformation and fake news
Purpose To provide human judgment input for computer algorithm development, this study examines the relative importance of source, content, and style cues in predicting the truthfulness ratings of two common types of online health information: news stories and institutional news releases. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a multi-method approach using (1) a manual content analysis of 400 randomly selected online health news stories …
Michael W. Spicer. In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
(2011). Michael W. Spicer. In Defense of Politics in Public Administration: A Value Pluralist Perspective. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 143-148
"The Responsible Actor as "Tortured Soul
Administrative responsibility " connotes multiple and even conflicting meanings, including (a) political responsibility, which embodies the virtue of duty; (b) professional responsibility, embodying the virtue of integrity; and (c) personal responsibility, which reflects the qualities of self-awareness and authentic relationship. The theory of countervailing responsibility holds that any one of these three meanings is not only inadequate for a fu…
Truth, Telling the Truth, and Being Truthful
This article links Oliver Sacks's examination of receptive (or global) aphasia with Julian Jaynes's hypothesis concerning the origin of reflective consciousness to clarify the role of nonverbal communication in the constitution of ethical relationships. The vehicle for explicating that linkage is a recent play by Orion White, The Girl Who Changed into a Dog. Commentary on selected scenes from the play suggests a conception of ethics based on the …
Dialogue
Administrative Policy Formulation and the Public Interest
IMATIONG STUDENTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION the concept of has occasioned considerable debate, yet little consensus. Ironically, the lack of consensus in the academic community seems equalled only by the certainty with which official pronouncements are uttered in the name of public interest, a circumstance leading many scholars to abandon the concept altogether. While it is tempting to follow suit, such a collective quietude will in the long haul …
A Response from Harmon
Social Equity and Organizational Man
Responsible Action and the Problem of Reification
This paper elaborates a “personal,” as opposed to an institutional, view of administrative responsibility. The idea of personal responsibility is better suited for appreciating the cognitive, conceptual, and interpersonal dynamics of policy processes than is the institutional view of responsibility as accountability. From the perspective of personal responsibility, the primary impediment to responsible action by policy makers, policy analysts, an…
Action Theory in Practice
Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the laity. By conspiracy, Shaw meant the power of professions, by virtue of their exclusive roles in the creation and legitimation of specialized knowledge, to control or manipulate the presumed beneficiaries of that knowledge in the service of their (the professions') own ends. Public administration, since having attained professional status, is not exempt from this charge.…
Another Attempt at Dialogue
Administrative Reform
Organization Theory
What, if Anything, is Teleology? The Ambiguous History of "Purpose" in Organizational Thought
A central point of departure of social and organizational systems theory from it origins in structural-functional sociology is the idea, drawn from cybernetic theory, that systems are, or may be interpreted as, naturally purposeful. Although the purposeful-or teleologicall" character of systems is typically defended on ostensibly scientific grounds, this paper argues that: (1) teleology has no valid status as a scientific idea, but is instead a q…
"The Responsible Actor as "Tortured Soul
Administrative responsibility " connotes multiple and even conflicting meanings, including (a) political responsibility, which embodies the virtue of duty; (b) professional responsibility, embodying the virtue of integrity; and (c) personal responsibility, which reflects the qualities of self-awareness and authentic relationship. The theory of countervailing responsibility holds that any one of these three meanings is not only inadequate for a fu…
Decision" and "Action" as Contrasting Perspectives in Organization Theory
Books in review
Diversity in Social Science Theories
Harmon Responds
About Bayard Catron
Dialogue
PAT-Net Turns Twenty-Five
Editor's note: This is an invited essay on the Public Administration Theory Network. Michael Harmon graciously agreed to sift through documents, communicate with people involved in development of the Network, and write a short history. The result is an interesting study in the relationship of a portion of public administration scholarship to the larger field, and it is timely because the Network is 25 years old this year. An essay such as this ca…
Five Good Reasons Not to Act on Principle (or, Why You Probably Can't Act on Principle, Anyway)
This essay challenges the popular belief that principles either can or ought to play a decisive role in guiding or justifying moral decisions. The five reasons offered here hold that principled justification: 1) denies the aporetc, and hence the paradoxical, relation among opposing principles; 2) fails to consider the pathologies produced by the single-minded assertion of particular principles; 3) excludes a consideration of the role that feeling…
About Fred Thayer
You Can't Get There From Here
The brevity required in writing for an ATP Forum provides the au thor a handy excuse for failing to reach a tidy conclusion. Taking full advantage of that excuse, I will instead only ruminate about, and proba bly end up retaining, my intuition that the question of how public ad ministration (or anyone) can or should move from the 'is' to the 'ought' can't be answered. The pairing of here and there in my title contains a triple entendre. The first…
Michael W. Spicer. In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
(2011). Michael W. Spicer. In Defense of Politics in Public Administration: A Value Pluralist Perspective. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 143-148
Truth, Telling the Truth, and Being Truthful
This article links Oliver Sacks's examination of receptive (or global) aphasia with Julian Jaynes's hypothesis concerning the origin of reflective consciousness to clarify the role of nonverbal communication in the constitution of ethical relationships. The vehicle for explicating that linkage is a recent play by Orion White, The Girl Who Changed into a Dog. Commentary on selected scenes from the play suggests a conception of ethics based on the …
Implications of source, content, and style cues in curbing health misinformation and fake news
Purpose To provide human judgment input for computer algorithm development, this study examines the relative importance of source, content, and style cues in predicting the truthfulness ratings of two common types of online health information: news stories and institutional news releases. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a multi-method approach using (1) a manual content analysis of 400 randomly selected online health news stories …
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