Gaylord George Candler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1365779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaylord George Candler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaylord George |
| FAMILY NAME | Candler |
| SIGNATURE | CANDLER G G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University South Bend |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5772-9212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Relevance of Publicness in an Era of Democratic Backsliding
This article makes the following fundamental arguments. First, that the importance of democratic governance represents a central priority in modern public administration, particularly given the normative significance of the ‘public’, or what we’ll refer to as ‘publicness’. It is further argued that the case for publicness at the macro-societal level is essential for public administration to sustain its normative and intellectual integrity in meet…
Symposium The Dismal (Delusional and Dangerous) “Science” of Economics and the “Capture” of Public Administration: Toward a Public-Spirited Public Management Economics
Economics shares with other approaches to human governance the potential to be "dismal, delusional, or dangerous" when dogma replaces reason in decisions about when to apply economic principles. A reading of the classical economic literature shows that even classical economics has not supported the indeed dismal, delusional, and dangerous turn that contemporary mainstream economics has adopted. What economists (and especially public administrator…
New Fields or Old Fields for Social Equity Scholarship: A Comment on Ken Oldfield’s Social Equity Scholarship
Towards Global Scholarship in Public Affairs
One can imagine two futures for public administration, public management and public service around the world. A first would be what we see as a continuation of the status quo: with public administration essentially continuing as a series of national discourses, with perhaps a bit of cross-fertilization, but with this characterized by a classic core-periphery model. The preferable model, outlined in this paper, would see the development of an inte…
Afterword: Toward Courageous Public Administration Scholarship
Epistemic Community or Tower of Babel? Theoretical Diffusion in Public Administration
This article takes a comparative look at the development of the public administration discipline in three countries: Australia, Brazil and Canada. The nature of the international public administration academic community is assessed through content analysis of articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA), Revista de Administração Pública (RAP), and Canadian Public Administration (CPA). The method is based on that used by exis…
The Theory of Social Systems Delimitation and The Reconceptualization of Public Administration
Guerreiro Ramos's theoretical work on the Parenthetical Man (Azevêdo & Albernaz, 2006) emphasizes the importance of a multicentric society to realize human multi-dimensionality; and specifically his Theory of Social Systems Delimitation provides a conceptual framework for understanding this multicentric society. The theory and practice of public administration has subsequently recognized the importance of multiple social sectors in the delivery o…
Linguistic Diglossia and Parochialism in American Public Administration: The Missing Half of Guerreiro Ramos's Redução Sociológica
Diglossia refers to a situation in which there are two varieties of a single language used in different social contexts and in which one has higher prestige than the other. American academic public administration suffers from a reverse diglossia. Rather than being privileged by knowledge of the dominant global language, monolingual Americans are stuck in an academic provincialism brought on by their inability to engage other cultures. This case i…
Symposium—The Destiny of Theory: Beyond The New Science of Organizations: Introduction to the Symposium: Why Guerreiro
The comparative evolution of public administration in Australia, Brazil, and Canada
The nature of the international public administration academic community is assessed through content analysis of articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration (ARPA), Revista de Administração Pública (RAP), and Canadian Public Administration (CPA). The method is based on that used by existing US research, allowing for comparison with that national context. The focus is on the institutional context, disciplinary influences, research …
Sociedade civil e desenvolvimento: Associações científicas e profissionais nas políticas públicas de Santa Catarina e de Sergipe
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, 20 Years Later: A New Science Still Unrealized in an Era of Public Cynicism and Theoretical Ambivalence
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos's public life and scholarly works challenge us to rethink and reconceptualize the field of public administration, particularly in this era of public cynicism and theoretical uncertainty. This article examines the historical context of his earlier writings and how they influenced his later scholarly work. As a prominent Brazilian scholar working in the United States, Guerreiro Ramos's "in-betweenness," as he called it, prov…
Particularism versus Universalism in the Brazilian Public Administration Literature
The author draws on the Brazilian public administration literature to discuss the conflict between the need to remain open to lessons from elsewhere, while at the same time remaining grounded in a particular local context. The article begins by presenting calls by a number of Brazilian public administration scholars for what might be termed an “administrative particularism,” or an assertion that universal lessons do not apply in the discipline. T…
The Professions and Public Policy: Expanding the Third Sector
Professional associations are often seen as wholly self-interested actors, and/or as an integral, indistinguishable part of the privileged elite. As a result, the international third sector literature has tended to focus on the activities of social movements and NGOs. This article uses field research and the rich Brazilian third sector literature to assess these assumptions. The first part shows that numerous policy-relevant groups have long exis…
Interest Groups and Social Movements: Self- or Public Interested? Insights from the Brazilian Third-Sector Literature
By definition, interest groups are seen as self-interested, that is, organizations established to pursue the self-interest of their members. As such, this plethora of self-interested actors has been seen largely as a negative thing, cluttering the policy process, creating unmanageable demands, and leading to “iron triangles” of interest group/legislative/bureaucratic networks geared toward funneling benefits to narrow groups. In contrast, social …
Civil Society and Development: Scientific and Professional Associations in Public Policy in Santa Catarina and Sergipe, Brazil
This paper uses Brazil's regional inequality to carry out comparative research on the role of civil society in economic development. Through quantitative event count data buttressed with primary archival research, greater involvement of civil society in public policy is shown to correlate with economic and social development. The results suggest that a robust, free civil society can improve development outcomes by providing additional informed vo…
Subsistence Democracies: Empirical Evidence from the South Pacific
Challenges the common assertion that capitalism is a necessary precondition for democracy. Demonstrates the existence of a number of non-capitalist democracies. Suggests that the subsistence mode of production functions in much the same way as capitalism in removing levers of economic control from political authorities. Identifies at least 3 clearly subsistence democracies in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Towards Global Scholarship in Public Affairs
One can imagine two futures for public administration, public management and public service around the world. A first would be what we see as a continuation of the status quo: with public administration essentially continuing as a series of national discourses, with perhaps a bit of cross-fertilization, but with this characterized by a classic core-periphery model. The preferable model, outlined in this paper, would see the development of an inte…
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, 20 Years Later: A New Science Still Unrealized in an Era of Public Cynicism and Theoretical Ambivalence
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos's public life and scholarly works challenge us to rethink and reconceptualize the field of public administration, particularly in this era of public cynicism and theoretical uncertainty. This article examines the historical context of his earlier writings and how they influenced his later scholarly work. As a prominent Brazilian scholar working in the United States, Guerreiro Ramos's "in-betweenness," as he called it, prov…
The comparative evolution of public administration in Australia, Brazil, and Canada
The nature of the international public administration academic community is assessed through content analysis of articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration (ARPA), Revista de Administração Pública (RAP), and Canadian Public Administration (CPA). The method is based on that used by existing US research, allowing for comparison with that national context. The focus is on the institutional context, disciplinary influences, research …
Linguistic Diglossia and Parochialism in American Public Administration: The Missing Half of Guerreiro Ramos's Redução Sociológica
Diglossia refers to a situation in which there are two varieties of a single language used in different social contexts and in which one has higher prestige than the other. American academic public administration suffers from a reverse diglossia. Rather than being privileged by knowledge of the dominant global language, monolingual Americans are stuck in an academic provincialism brought on by their inability to engage other cultures. This case i…
Symposium—The Destiny of Theory: Beyond The New Science of Organizations: Introduction to the Symposium: Why Guerreiro
Afterword: Toward Courageous Public Administration Scholarship
The Professions and Public Policy: Expanding the Third Sector
Professional associations are often seen as wholly self-interested actors, and/or as an integral, indistinguishable part of the privileged elite. As a result, the international third sector literature has tended to focus on the activities of social movements and NGOs. This article uses field research and the rich Brazilian third sector literature to assess these assumptions. The first part shows that numerous policy-relevant groups have long exis…
Interest Groups and Social Movements: Self- or Public Interested? Insights from the Brazilian Third-Sector Literature
By definition, interest groups are seen as self-interested, that is, organizations established to pursue the self-interest of their members. As such, this plethora of self-interested actors has been seen largely as a negative thing, cluttering the policy process, creating unmanageable demands, and leading to “iron triangles” of interest group/legislative/bureaucratic networks geared toward funneling benefits to narrow groups. In contrast, social …
Epistemic Community or Tower of Babel? Theoretical Diffusion in Public Administration
This article takes a comparative look at the development of the public administration discipline in three countries: Australia, Brazil and Canada. The nature of the international public administration academic community is assessed through content analysis of articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA), Revista de Administração Pública (RAP), and Canadian Public Administration (CPA). The method is based on that used by exis…
Symposium The Dismal (Delusional and Dangerous) “Science” of Economics and the “Capture” of Public Administration: Toward a Public-Spirited Public Management Economics
Economics shares with other approaches to human governance the potential to be "dismal, delusional, or dangerous" when dogma replaces reason in decisions about when to apply economic principles. A reading of the classical economic literature shows that even classical economics has not supported the indeed dismal, delusional, and dangerous turn that contemporary mainstream economics has adopted. What economists (and especially public administrator…
New Fields or Old Fields for Social Equity Scholarship: A Comment on Ken Oldfield’s Social Equity Scholarship
Civil Society and Development: Scientific and Professional Associations in Public Policy in Santa Catarina and Sergipe, Brazil
This paper uses Brazil's regional inequality to carry out comparative research on the role of civil society in economic development. Through quantitative event count data buttressed with primary archival research, greater involvement of civil society in public policy is shown to correlate with economic and social development. The results suggest that a robust, free civil society can improve development outcomes by providing additional informed vo…
Subsistence Democracies: Empirical Evidence from the South Pacific
Challenges the common assertion that capitalism is a necessary precondition for democracy. Demonstrates the existence of a number of non-capitalist democracies. Suggests that the subsistence mode of production functions in much the same way as capitalism in removing levers of economic control from political authorities. Identifies at least 3 clearly subsistence democracies in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Subsistence Democracies: Empirical Evidence from the South Pacific
Challenges the common assertion that capitalism is a necessary precondition for democracy. Demonstrates the existence of a number of non-capitalist democracies. Suggests that the subsistence mode of production functions in much the same way as capitalism in removing levers of economic control from political authorities. Identifies at least 3 clearly subsistence democracies in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Interest Groups and Social Movements: Self- or Public Interested? Insights from the Brazilian Third-Sector Literature
By definition, interest groups are seen as self-interested, that is, organizations established to pursue the self-interest of their members. As such, this plethora of self-interested actors has been seen largely as a negative thing, cluttering the policy process, creating unmanageable demands, and leading to “iron triangles” of interest group/legislative/bureaucratic networks geared toward funneling benefits to narrow groups. In contrast, social …
Civil Society and Development: Scientific and Professional Associations in Public Policy in Santa Catarina and Sergipe, Brazil
This paper uses Brazil's regional inequality to carry out comparative research on the role of civil society in economic development. Through quantitative event count data buttressed with primary archival research, greater involvement of civil society in public policy is shown to correlate with economic and social development. The results suggest that a robust, free civil society can improve development outcomes by providing additional informed vo…
The Professions and Public Policy: Expanding the Third Sector
Professional associations are often seen as wholly self-interested actors, and/or as an integral, indistinguishable part of the privileged elite. As a result, the international third sector literature has tended to focus on the activities of social movements and NGOs. This article uses field research and the rich Brazilian third sector literature to assess these assumptions. The first part shows that numerous policy-relevant groups have long exis…
Particularism versus Universalism in the Brazilian Public Administration Literature
The author draws on the Brazilian public administration literature to discuss the conflict between the need to remain open to lessons from elsewhere, while at the same time remaining grounded in a particular local context. The article begins by presenting calls by a number of Brazilian public administration scholars for what might be termed an “administrative particularism,” or an assertion that universal lessons do not apply in the discipline. T…
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, 20 Years Later: A New Science Still Unrealized in an Era of Public Cynicism and Theoretical Ambivalence
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos's public life and scholarly works challenge us to rethink and reconceptualize the field of public administration, particularly in this era of public cynicism and theoretical uncertainty. This article examines the historical context of his earlier writings and how they influenced his later scholarly work. As a prominent Brazilian scholar working in the United States, Guerreiro Ramos's "in-betweenness," as he called it, prov…
The Theory of Social Systems Delimitation and The Reconceptualization of Public Administration
Guerreiro Ramos's theoretical work on the Parenthetical Man (Azevêdo & Albernaz, 2006) emphasizes the importance of a multicentric society to realize human multi-dimensionality; and specifically his Theory of Social Systems Delimitation provides a conceptual framework for understanding this multicentric society. The theory and practice of public administration has subsequently recognized the importance of multiple social sectors in the delivery o…
Linguistic Diglossia and Parochialism in American Public Administration: The Missing Half of Guerreiro Ramos's Redução Sociológica
Diglossia refers to a situation in which there are two varieties of a single language used in different social contexts and in which one has higher prestige than the other. American academic public administration suffers from a reverse diglossia. Rather than being privileged by knowledge of the dominant global language, monolingual Americans are stuck in an academic provincialism brought on by their inability to engage other cultures. This case i…
Symposium—The Destiny of Theory: Beyond The New Science of Organizations: Introduction to the Symposium: Why Guerreiro
The comparative evolution of public administration in Australia, Brazil, and Canada
The nature of the international public administration academic community is assessed through content analysis of articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration (ARPA), Revista de Administração Pública (RAP), and Canadian Public Administration (CPA). The method is based on that used by existing US research, allowing for comparison with that national context. The focus is on the institutional context, disciplinary influences, research …
Sociedade civil e desenvolvimento: Associações científicas e profissionais nas políticas públicas de Santa Catarina e de Sergipe
Epistemic Community or Tower of Babel? Theoretical Diffusion in Public Administration
This article takes a comparative look at the development of the public administration discipline in three countries: Australia, Brazil and Canada. The nature of the international public administration academic community is assessed through content analysis of articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA), Revista de Administração Pública (RAP), and Canadian Public Administration (CPA). The method is based on that used by exis…
Afterword: Toward Courageous Public Administration Scholarship
Symposium The Dismal (Delusional and Dangerous) “Science” of Economics and the “Capture” of Public Administration: Toward a Public-Spirited Public Management Economics
Economics shares with other approaches to human governance the potential to be "dismal, delusional, or dangerous" when dogma replaces reason in decisions about when to apply economic principles. A reading of the classical economic literature shows that even classical economics has not supported the indeed dismal, delusional, and dangerous turn that contemporary mainstream economics has adopted. What economists (and especially public administrator…
New Fields or Old Fields for Social Equity Scholarship: A Comment on Ken Oldfield’s Social Equity Scholarship
Towards Global Scholarship in Public Affairs
One can imagine two futures for public administration, public management and public service around the world. A first would be what we see as a continuation of the status quo: with public administration essentially continuing as a series of national discourses, with perhaps a bit of cross-fertilization, but with this characterized by a classic core-periphery model. The preferable model, outlined in this paper, would see the development of an inte…
The Relevance of Publicness in an Era of Democratic Backsliding
This article makes the following fundamental arguments. First, that the importance of democratic governance represents a central priority in modern public administration, particularly given the normative significance of the ‘public’, or what we’ll refer to as ‘publicness’. It is further argued that the case for publicness at the macro-societal level is essential for public administration to sustain its normative and intellectual integrity in meet…
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