Mark R Rutgers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark R Rutgers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutgers |
| SIGNATURE | RUTGERS M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The crowding out of social values
Heritage is a public value, which is determined by many other values. These values can be mutually dependent and reinforcing, but can also displace or nullify each other. As public values are arguments, this can result in discursive struggles when discussing whether something should be valued as ‘heritage’. It turns out that the proponents of so-called ‘social values’ often lose such battles. Why is it that precisely their arguments are so vulner…
Virtue or Vice
This article aims to discuss the meaning of loyalty. Over the decades, authors have recognized loyalty ranging from an “ultimate value” to “immoral,” depending on the consequences linked to its impact. Three types of loyalty are distinguished here, according to the cause or object of loyalty at which it is directed. When discussing loyalty, a crucial question is of loyal to what or whom. However, a multiplicity of possible loyalties is at play in…
Against the rule of man
This article investigates the Confucian and Western traditions specifically with regard to the relation between morality, law and good administration. It is argued that the common opposition between the rule of man and the rule of law as reflecting the basic difference between the two traditions is inadequate. Confucianism can be better characterized positively as the rule of morality. It should also be noticed that ‘the rule of law’ is increasin…
Civil servants’ perspectives on the role of citizens in public service delivery in Uganda
In this article we study civil servants’ perceptions about the role of citizens in the provision of public services in Uganda. In other words, we examine the views of those who deliver civil services regarding the actual and desired influence of service recipients. An empirical study was conducted focusing on the health and education sectors in Uganda. It is concluded that due to a number of tensions regarding the role of the citizen in Uganda, c…
Symposium Prelude to Public Administration
The present symposium discusses European classics in Public Administration, with the aim to identify core ideas, authors, and texts, and to make their work known to a wider audience.The symposium presents examples of what can best be described as the history of "administrative thought".The contributions in this issue specifically focus on European 'classics' in Public Administration (PA) as a scientific discipline and on public administration (pa…
As Good as It Gets? On the Meaning of Public Value in the Study of Policy and Management
Public values are being promoted as a core concept in the study of public administration, in particular, in discourses surrounding Moore’s public value management and Bozeman’s public value failure. This article outlines the approaches to the concept of values and public values. Particular attention is paid to the founding distinction between facts and values, which proves to be less clear than usually assumed. After discussing a range of possibl…
Public Values
This article provides the introduction to a symposium on contemporary public values research. It is argued that the contribution to this symposium represent a Public Values Perspective, distinct from other specific lines of research that also use public value as a core concept. Public administration is approached in terms of processes guided or restricted by public values and as public value creating: public management and public policy-making ar…
Public Values in Public Administration
Will the Phoenix Fly Again
What kind of phenomenon is a banker's oath? The oath is a warranty added to a promise, and has a complex nature and history that is discussed. Recent research on promising is presented that indicates that there may be a desired effect on both oath taker and on the audience, even if an oath is performed reluctantly or insincerely. Based on a comparison with the oath of office, it is argued that a banker's oath is not just a professional oath sworn…
How to Do Things Without Theory
The Origins and Restriction of Efficiency in Public Administration
This article is primarily a study in the history of the concept of efficiency. It is argued that efficiency originated in Aristotelian ideas about causality and acquired a broad, substantive meaning of “moving force.” This meaning of the term was dominant well into 20th-century studies of public administration. In the course of the 20th century, however, efficiency became predominantly understood as “technical efficiency”: a ratio between resourc…
The Oath of Office as Public Value Guardian
The oath of office is perhaps the ultimate means to set public office apart: Public functionaries in most countries have to swear to let public interests prevail over private concerns. This seems at odds with the prevailing liberal/managerial idea that public and private employment is not distinct at all. The oath of office establishes a moral commitment to the office that transcends a contractual, managerial, and/or legal approach to public auth…
Sorting Out Public Values? On the Contingency of Value Classification in Public Administration
Do classifications of values as presented in the study of public administration make sense? In this article, an overview of values in public administration is discussed and, in particular, a number of attempts to rank and order these values are discussed. The need to, and possibility of, distinguishing levels, categories, syndromes, constellations, families, sets, clusters, and so on of values is generally acknowledged. All categorizations and ty…
The Purpose of the State
Symposium—Normative Dimensions of Public Administration
(2008). Symposium—Normative Dimensions of Public Administration: Introduction. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 42-49
Future Past
The Morality of Value- and Purpose-Rationality
Max Weber's distinction between purpose- and value-rationality is almost universally accepted in administrative theory. Its precise meaning is, however, unclear. In this article, more insight into the nature of Weber's distinction is claimed by approaching it from a (neo-) Kantian perspective. It is claimed that the Kantian contrast between autonomy and heteronomy of the will and the distinction between absolute and relative ends is at the heart …
Petra Schreurs
Symposium
Comparative Public Administration
Comparative research has to transcend differences in culture and language. We cannot simply define our own concepts and variables as the objects of comparison are socially constructed. It is therefore imperative to account for translation problems within the theory on comparative research. Theoretically we can distinguish between two ways of accomplishing a relevant comparison: by means of capturing the authentic or local meaning of social realit…
Splitting the Universe
Traditionally, the politics/administration dichotomy is referred to in the study of public administration as the founding dichotomy. Debates on its tenability are as old as its discovery. In the arguments put forward, however, no attention is paid to the epistemological nature of dichotomies. This article tries to fill this gap. It is usually assumed that dichotomies have a contradictory nature. By looking at the logic of contradictions, and argu…
Traditional Flavors
To state that Americans and Europeans have different attitudes toward the concept of state is commonplace, but how does this influence the study of public administration? This article traces differences in Western administrative thought in terms of traditions underlying the conceptualization of public administration. The traditions encompass a specific orientation toward the state (ontology) and toward conceptualization (epistemology); combining …
Briefly Noted from Europe
Richard J. Stillman, II—Creating the American State
(2000). Richard J. Stillman, II—Creating the American State: The Moral Reformers and the Modern Administrative World They Made. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 444-453
Against a Study of the History of Public Administration
What is the value of administrative history for the study of public administration? It is common to stress the enlightenmentfunction history can have for theorists and practitioners. Thus administrative history is presented as an independent topic next to the “real” study of public administration. It is time to “tum the tables”. Administrative history is not “just a topic” to students of public administration, it is the very subject matter of the…
As Good as It Gets? On the Meaning of Public Value in the Study of Policy and Management
Public values are being promoted as a core concept in the study of public administration, in particular, in discourses surrounding Moore’s public value management and Bozeman’s public value failure. This article outlines the approaches to the concept of values and public values. Particular attention is paid to the founding distinction between facts and values, which proves to be less clear than usually assumed. After discussing a range of possibl…
Public Values
This article provides the introduction to a symposium on contemporary public values research. It is argued that the contribution to this symposium represent a Public Values Perspective, distinct from other specific lines of research that also use public value as a core concept. Public administration is approached in terms of processes guided or restricted by public values and as public value creating: public management and public policy-making ar…
The Origins and Restriction of Efficiency in Public Administration
This article is primarily a study in the history of the concept of efficiency. It is argued that efficiency originated in Aristotelian ideas about causality and acquired a broad, substantive meaning of “moving force.” This meaning of the term was dominant well into 20th-century studies of public administration. In the course of the 20th century, however, efficiency became predominantly understood as “technical efficiency”: a ratio between resourc…
Sorting Out Public Values? On the Contingency of Value Classification in Public Administration
Do classifications of values as presented in the study of public administration make sense? In this article, an overview of values in public administration is discussed and, in particular, a number of attempts to rank and order these values are discussed. The need to, and possibility of, distinguishing levels, categories, syndromes, constellations, families, sets, clusters, and so on of values is generally acknowledged. All categorizations and ty…
Traditional Flavors
To state that Americans and Europeans have different attitudes toward the concept of state is commonplace, but how does this influence the study of public administration? This article traces differences in Western administrative thought in terms of traditions underlying the conceptualization of public administration. The traditions encompass a specific orientation toward the state (ontology) and toward conceptualization (epistemology); combining …
Public Administration and the Separation of Powers in a Cross-Atlantic Perspective
This article focuses on the links between the doctrine of the separation of powers and the concept of public administration in a cross-Atlantic perspective. The separations doctrine is at the root of the concept of public administration as it emerged in the nineteenth century. It is a troublesome starting point, as it remains unclear how administration relates to the other state functions. What is more, the doctrine proofs not to have a univocal …
Beyond Woodrow Wilson
The study of public administration is not as new as often supposed. In the 17th century, cameralism or polity sciences emerged, dealing with the proper administration to bring moral and economic well-being to people. The polity sciencesflourished well into the 19th century. Questions concerning its topics and approach (legal, socioeconomical, orpolitical), however, never were resolved.' This historicforerunner of the study of public administratio…
Against the rule of man
This article investigates the Confucian and Western traditions specifically with regard to the relation between morality, law and good administration. It is argued that the common opposition between the rule of man and the rule of law as reflecting the basic difference between the two traditions is inadequate. Confucianism can be better characterized positively as the rule of morality. It should also be noticed that ‘the rule of law’ is increasin…
The Oath of Office as Public Value Guardian
The oath of office is perhaps the ultimate means to set public office apart: Public functionaries in most countries have to swear to let public interests prevail over private concerns. This seems at odds with the prevailing liberal/managerial idea that public and private employment is not distinct at all. The oath of office establishes a moral commitment to the office that transcends a contractual, managerial, and/or legal approach to public auth…
Splitting the Universe
Traditionally, the politics/administration dichotomy is referred to in the study of public administration as the founding dichotomy. Debates on its tenability are as old as its discovery. In the arguments put forward, however, no attention is paid to the epistemological nature of dichotomies. This article tries to fill this gap. It is usually assumed that dichotomies have a contradictory nature. By looking at the logic of contradictions, and argu…
Can the Study of Public Administration do without a Concept of the State
Attempts to refound the study of public administration are not new. As early as the 19th century, the German scholar Lorenz Von Stein (1815-1890) tried to develop an encompassing study that was theoretically coherent and practically relevant. His views are often surprisingly modern in outlook and intent. The conceptual cornerstone in his approach is the state. Von Stein thus provides an outlook many contemporary students of public administration,…
Comparative Public Administration
Comparative research has to transcend differences in culture and language. We cannot simply define our own concepts and variables as the objects of comparison are socially constructed. It is therefore imperative to account for translation problems within the theory on comparative research. Theoretically we can distinguish between two ways of accomplishing a relevant comparison: by means of capturing the authentic or local meaning of social realit…
The Morality of Value- and Purpose-Rationality
Max Weber's distinction between purpose- and value-rationality is almost universally accepted in administrative theory. Its precise meaning is, however, unclear. In this article, more insight into the nature of Weber's distinction is claimed by approaching it from a (neo-) Kantian perspective. It is claimed that the Kantian contrast between autonomy and heteronomy of the will and the distinction between absolute and relative ends is at the heart …
Against a Study of the History of Public Administration
What is the value of administrative history for the study of public administration? It is common to stress the enlightenmentfunction history can have for theorists and practitioners. Thus administrative history is presented as an independent topic next to the “real” study of public administration. It is time to “tum the tables”. Administrative history is not “just a topic” to students of public administration, it is the very subject matter of the…
Paradigm lost
The crowding out of social values
Heritage is a public value, which is determined by many other values. These values can be mutually dependent and reinforcing, but can also displace or nullify each other. As public values are arguments, this can result in discursive struggles when discussing whether something should be valued as ‘heritage’. It turns out that the proponents of so-called ‘social values’ often lose such battles. Why is it that precisely their arguments are so vulner…
Public Values in Public Administration
The Purpose of the State
Will the Phoenix Fly Again
What kind of phenomenon is a banker's oath? The oath is a warranty added to a promise, and has a complex nature and history that is discussed. Recent research on promising is presented that indicates that there may be a desired effect on both oath taker and on the audience, even if an oath is performed reluctantly or insincerely. Based on a comparison with the oath of office, it is argued that a banker's oath is not just a professional oath sworn…
Civil servants’ perspectives on the role of citizens in public service delivery in Uganda
In this article we study civil servants’ perceptions about the role of citizens in the provision of public services in Uganda. In other words, we examine the views of those who deliver civil services regarding the actual and desired influence of service recipients. An empirical study was conducted focusing on the health and education sectors in Uganda. It is concluded that due to a number of tensions regarding the role of the citizen in Uganda, c…
Symposium Prelude to Public Administration
The present symposium discusses European classics in Public Administration, with the aim to identify core ideas, authors, and texts, and to make their work known to a wider audience.The symposium presents examples of what can best be described as the history of "administrative thought".The contributions in this issue specifically focus on European 'classics' in Public Administration (PA) as a scientific discipline and on public administration (pa…
How to Do Things Without Theory
Symposium
Briefly Noted from Europe
Can the Study of Public Administration do without a Concept of the State
Attempts to refound the study of public administration are not new. As early as the 19th century, the German scholar Lorenz Von Stein (1815-1890) tried to develop an encompassing study that was theoretically coherent and practically relevant. His views are often surprisingly modern in outlook and intent. The conceptual cornerstone in his approach is the state. Von Stein thus provides an outlook many contemporary students of public administration,…
Beyond Woodrow Wilson
The study of public administration is not as new as often supposed. In the 17th century, cameralism or polity sciences emerged, dealing with the proper administration to bring moral and economic well-being to people. The polity sciencesflourished well into the 19th century. Questions concerning its topics and approach (legal, socioeconomical, orpolitical), however, never were resolved.' This historicforerunner of the study of public administratio…
Paradigm lost
Briefly Noted from Europe
Richard J. Stillman, II—Creating the American State
(2000). Richard J. Stillman, II—Creating the American State: The Moral Reformers and the Modern Administrative World They Made. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 444-453
Against a Study of the History of Public Administration
What is the value of administrative history for the study of public administration? It is common to stress the enlightenmentfunction history can have for theorists and practitioners. Thus administrative history is presented as an independent topic next to the “real” study of public administration. It is time to “tum the tables”. Administrative history is not “just a topic” to students of public administration, it is the very subject matter of the…
Public Administration and the Separation of Powers in a Cross-Atlantic Perspective
This article focuses on the links between the doctrine of the separation of powers and the concept of public administration in a cross-Atlantic perspective. The separations doctrine is at the root of the concept of public administration as it emerged in the nineteenth century. It is a troublesome starting point, as it remains unclear how administration relates to the other state functions. What is more, the doctrine proofs not to have a univocal …
Splitting the Universe
Traditionally, the politics/administration dichotomy is referred to in the study of public administration as the founding dichotomy. Debates on its tenability are as old as its discovery. In the arguments put forward, however, no attention is paid to the epistemological nature of dichotomies. This article tries to fill this gap. It is usually assumed that dichotomies have a contradictory nature. By looking at the logic of contradictions, and argu…
Traditional Flavors
To state that Americans and Europeans have different attitudes toward the concept of state is commonplace, but how does this influence the study of public administration? This article traces differences in Western administrative thought in terms of traditions underlying the conceptualization of public administration. The traditions encompass a specific orientation toward the state (ontology) and toward conceptualization (epistemology); combining …
Symposium
Comparative Public Administration
Comparative research has to transcend differences in culture and language. We cannot simply define our own concepts and variables as the objects of comparison are socially constructed. It is therefore imperative to account for translation problems within the theory on comparative research. Theoretically we can distinguish between two ways of accomplishing a relevant comparison: by means of capturing the authentic or local meaning of social realit…
Petra Schreurs
The Morality of Value- and Purpose-Rationality
Max Weber's distinction between purpose- and value-rationality is almost universally accepted in administrative theory. Its precise meaning is, however, unclear. In this article, more insight into the nature of Weber's distinction is claimed by approaching it from a (neo-) Kantian perspective. It is claimed that the Kantian contrast between autonomy and heteronomy of the will and the distinction between absolute and relative ends is at the heart …
Future Past
Sorting Out Public Values? On the Contingency of Value Classification in Public Administration
Do classifications of values as presented in the study of public administration make sense? In this article, an overview of values in public administration is discussed and, in particular, a number of attempts to rank and order these values are discussed. The need to, and possibility of, distinguishing levels, categories, syndromes, constellations, families, sets, clusters, and so on of values is generally acknowledged. All categorizations and ty…
The Purpose of the State
Symposium—Normative Dimensions of Public Administration
(2008). Symposium—Normative Dimensions of Public Administration: Introduction. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 42-49
The Oath of Office as Public Value Guardian
The oath of office is perhaps the ultimate means to set public office apart: Public functionaries in most countries have to swear to let public interests prevail over private concerns. This seems at odds with the prevailing liberal/managerial idea that public and private employment is not distinct at all. The oath of office establishes a moral commitment to the office that transcends a contractual, managerial, and/or legal approach to public auth…
The Origins and Restriction of Efficiency in Public Administration
This article is primarily a study in the history of the concept of efficiency. It is argued that efficiency originated in Aristotelian ideas about causality and acquired a broad, substantive meaning of “moving force.” This meaning of the term was dominant well into 20th-century studies of public administration. In the course of the 20th century, however, efficiency became predominantly understood as “technical efficiency”: a ratio between resourc…
How to Do Things Without Theory
Will the Phoenix Fly Again
What kind of phenomenon is a banker's oath? The oath is a warranty added to a promise, and has a complex nature and history that is discussed. Recent research on promising is presented that indicates that there may be a desired effect on both oath taker and on the audience, even if an oath is performed reluctantly or insincerely. Based on a comparison with the oath of office, it is argued that a banker's oath is not just a professional oath sworn…
Symposium Prelude to Public Administration
The present symposium discusses European classics in Public Administration, with the aim to identify core ideas, authors, and texts, and to make their work known to a wider audience.The symposium presents examples of what can best be described as the history of "administrative thought".The contributions in this issue specifically focus on European 'classics' in Public Administration (PA) as a scientific discipline and on public administration (pa…
As Good as It Gets? On the Meaning of Public Value in the Study of Policy and Management
Public values are being promoted as a core concept in the study of public administration, in particular, in discourses surrounding Moore’s public value management and Bozeman’s public value failure. This article outlines the approaches to the concept of values and public values. Particular attention is paid to the founding distinction between facts and values, which proves to be less clear than usually assumed. After discussing a range of possibl…
Public Values
This article provides the introduction to a symposium on contemporary public values research. It is argued that the contribution to this symposium represent a Public Values Perspective, distinct from other specific lines of research that also use public value as a core concept. Public administration is approached in terms of processes guided or restricted by public values and as public value creating: public management and public policy-making ar…
Public Values in Public Administration
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