Howard E Mccurdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1156137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard E Mccurdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccurdy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCURDY H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Space and the American Imagination
The introduction will set out the principal theme of the book: that the rise of the U.S. space program was due to a concerted effort by science writers, engineers, industrialists, and civic and political leaders to create a popular culture of space exploration based on important elements of American social life (such as frontier mythology, fears about the cold war, and the rise of the consumer culture). Much of the disillusionment with the NASA s…
Can Government Organizations Learn and Change
Vision and Leadership
This article utilizes two works of science fiction to examine the moral implications of pursuing great visions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Fiction writers often deal creatively with the darker side of human behavior, a perspective that social science researchers do not always explore. Both books offer insights into the way visions arise and the ethics of pursuing visions whose full consequences are n…
The Dream of Spaceflight
While seeking the funds necessary to carry out expeditions, advocates of space exploration frequently defend their dreams with promises of technological spinoffs, commercial opportunities, and enhanced national security. Such utilitarian promises mask motivations that often go unspoken. For space, the deeper reasons can be found in curiosity, the desire for play, the search for immortality, and the natural human tendency to want to visit distant …
The failure of market failure
The concept of market failure was originally presented by economists as a normative explanation of why the need for government expenditures might arise. Gradually, the concept has taken on the form of a full-scale diagnostic tool frequently employed by policy analysts to determine the exact scope and nature of government intervention. For some time, economists have known that the market failure idea is conceptually flawed. The authors of this art…
Space and the American Imagination
Journal Article Space and the American Imagination. By Howard E. McCurdy. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. x, 294 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-764-2.) Get access Walter A. McDougall Walter A. McDougall University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1662–1663, https://doi.org/10.2307/25683…
Space and the American Imagination
Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
Journal Article Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership. Ed. by Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. x, 262 pp. Cloth, $36.95, ISBN 0-252-02336-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06632-4.) Get access Andreas Reichstein Andreas Reichstein University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue…
Fiction and Imagination
For more than 50 years, scholars and practitioners have examined the role that fiction plays in public administration. For the most part, attention has centered on the degree to which practitioners can learn something about administration by exposing themselves to works of fiction (Egger, 1944, 1959; Waldo, 1968; Kroll, 1965, 1981). Fiction has been used as a teaching device, like the case study, to illustrate principles and expand experience (Ho…
Nasa's Organizational Culture
The Space Station Decision
Organizational Decline
drawn from the NASA study. Public administrators are often called upon to accomplish tasks that are very difficult to perform, such as space flight and large military operations. In some cases, they are expected to perform these tasks without making errors, as in the case of air-traffic control and electric power distribution (LaPorte and Consolini, 1991). Conventional wisdom, however, holds that public organizations deteriorate with age (Kimberl…
A Thousand Flowers Blooming
A Call for 'Appropriate Methods
Why Can't We Resolve the Research Issue in Public Administration
Nearly 50 years ago, in a now classic issue of the Public Administration Review, Robert Hutchins and William Mosher debated whether schools should be established to train people in public administration. Hutchins, then president of the University of Chicago, took a negative view. He argued that public administration is too variable a field to lend itself to systematic exploration. Mosher, then dean of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, ar…
Public Ownership of Land and the “Sagebrush Rebellion
Advocates of “privatization” argue that the sale of public lands to private owners would significantly improve the management of natural resources. Experience from the first round of land sales suggests that the government, responding to the politics of the Sagebrush Rebellion, will continue to subsidize preferred uses of “privatized” lands through give–aways, below–par purchases, preference sales, and imperfect sales. Even though the federal gov…
Public Administration in the Wilderness
City Management
Public Administration
Selecting and Training Public Managers
The doctrine that government is has been mainstream public administration for thirty years, serving as a guide to the selection and training of public managers and suggesting that a background in public affairs-not business administration-is the best preparation for public management. The business approach, as reflected in B-schools around the nation, tends to emphasize specific skills (such as accounting, finance, statistics, data processing, an…
Fiction Phenomenology, and Public Administration
Such narrowness in professional education during an age of involvement is inexcusable; in a discipline as dull as administration it can be virulent. As an alternative, imagine a school of public administration which complements professional scholarship with imaginative literature which uses bureaucratic films such as M.A.S.H. to demonstrate behavioral theories, which admits fiction as relevant research experience, and which even involves students…
Space and the American Imagination
The introduction will set out the principal theme of the book: that the rise of the U.S. space program was due to a concerted effort by science writers, engineers, industrialists, and civic and political leaders to create a popular culture of space exploration based on important elements of American social life (such as frontier mythology, fears about the cold war, and the rise of the consumer culture). Much of the disillusionment with the NASA s…
Public Ownership of Land and the “Sagebrush Rebellion
Advocates of “privatization” argue that the sale of public lands to private owners would significantly improve the management of natural resources. Experience from the first round of land sales suggests that the government, responding to the politics of the Sagebrush Rebellion, will continue to subsidize preferred uses of “privatized” lands through give–aways, below–par purchases, preference sales, and imperfect sales. Even though the federal gov…
Vision and Leadership
This article utilizes two works of science fiction to examine the moral implications of pursuing great visions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Fiction writers often deal creatively with the darker side of human behavior, a perspective that social science researchers do not always explore. Both books offer insights into the way visions arise and the ethics of pursuing visions whose full consequences are n…
A Thousand Flowers Blooming
Public Administration in the Wilderness
Fiction Phenomenology, and Public Administration
Such narrowness in professional education during an age of involvement is inexcusable; in a discipline as dull as administration it can be virulent. As an alternative, imagine a school of public administration which complements professional scholarship with imaginative literature which uses bureaucratic films such as M.A.S.H. to demonstrate behavioral theories, which admits fiction as relevant research experience, and which even involves students…
Public Administration
Selecting and Training Public Managers
The doctrine that government is has been mainstream public administration for thirty years, serving as a guide to the selection and training of public managers and suggesting that a background in public affairs-not business administration-is the best preparation for public management. The business approach, as reflected in B-schools around the nation, tends to emphasize specific skills (such as accounting, finance, statistics, data processing, an…
City Management
Public Administration in the Wilderness
A Call for 'Appropriate Methods
Why Can't We Resolve the Research Issue in Public Administration
Nearly 50 years ago, in a now classic issue of the Public Administration Review, Robert Hutchins and William Mosher debated whether schools should be established to train people in public administration. Hutchins, then president of the University of Chicago, took a negative view. He argued that public administration is too variable a field to lend itself to systematic exploration. Mosher, then dean of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, ar…
Public Ownership of Land and the “Sagebrush Rebellion
Advocates of “privatization” argue that the sale of public lands to private owners would significantly improve the management of natural resources. Experience from the first round of land sales suggests that the government, responding to the politics of the Sagebrush Rebellion, will continue to subsidize preferred uses of “privatized” lands through give–aways, below–par purchases, preference sales, and imperfect sales. Even though the federal gov…
A Thousand Flowers Blooming
Organizational Decline
drawn from the NASA study. Public administrators are often called upon to accomplish tasks that are very difficult to perform, such as space flight and large military operations. In some cases, they are expected to perform these tasks without making errors, as in the case of air-traffic control and electric power distribution (LaPorte and Consolini, 1991). Conventional wisdom, however, holds that public organizations deteriorate with age (Kimberl…
Nasa's Organizational Culture
The Space Station Decision
Fiction and Imagination
For more than 50 years, scholars and practitioners have examined the role that fiction plays in public administration. For the most part, attention has centered on the degree to which practitioners can learn something about administration by exposing themselves to works of fiction (Egger, 1944, 1959; Waldo, 1968; Kroll, 1965, 1981). Fiction has been used as a teaching device, like the case study, to illustrate principles and expand experience (Ho…
Space and the American Imagination
Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
Journal Article Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership. Ed. by Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. x, 262 pp. Cloth, $36.95, ISBN 0-252-02336-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06632-4.) Get access Andreas Reichstein Andreas Reichstein University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue…
The failure of market failure
The concept of market failure was originally presented by economists as a normative explanation of why the need for government expenditures might arise. Gradually, the concept has taken on the form of a full-scale diagnostic tool frequently employed by policy analysts to determine the exact scope and nature of government intervention. For some time, economists have known that the market failure idea is conceptually flawed. The authors of this art…
Space and the American Imagination
Journal Article Space and the American Imagination. By Howard E. McCurdy. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. x, 294 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-764-2.) Get access Walter A. McDougall Walter A. McDougall University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1662–1663, https://doi.org/10.2307/25683…
The Dream of Spaceflight
While seeking the funds necessary to carry out expeditions, advocates of space exploration frequently defend their dreams with promises of technological spinoffs, commercial opportunities, and enhanced national security. Such utilitarian promises mask motivations that often go unspoken. For space, the deeper reasons can be found in curiosity, the desire for play, the search for immortality, and the natural human tendency to want to visit distant …
Vision and Leadership
This article utilizes two works of science fiction to examine the moral implications of pursuing great visions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Fiction writers often deal creatively with the darker side of human behavior, a perspective that social science researchers do not always explore. Both books offer insights into the way visions arise and the ethics of pursuing visions whose full consequences are n…
Space and the American Imagination
The introduction will set out the principal theme of the book: that the rise of the U.S. space program was due to a concerted effort by science writers, engineers, industrialists, and civic and political leaders to create a popular culture of space exploration based on important elements of American social life (such as frontier mythology, fears about the cold war, and the rise of the consumer culture). Much of the disillusionment with the NASA s…
Can Government Organizations Learn and Change
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