Frederick C Thayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 714336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick C Thayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick C |
| FAMILY NAME | Thayer |
| SIGNATURE | THAYER F C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Character Traits” versus “Win or Lose: A Rejoinder by Fred Thayer
(2002). “Character Traits” versus “Win or Lose”: A Rejoinder by Fred Thayer. Public Integrity: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 175-178
Political Corruption as the Result of Electoral Competition, Not Character Weakness
Political corruption according to this commentary is inevitable but not unique. Competition, not character deficiencies, causes cheating in politics, economics, education, and elsewhere. Political corruption is still associated with extraconstitutional political parties, handy devices for exploiting legal and constitutional loopholes. The 1883 Pendleton Act sought to reduce the ability of political winners to reward supporters, but this change wa…
A Research Police Force
In Resources for Qualitative Research: Advancing the Application of Alternative Methodologies in Public Administration (N/D, 1997), Janet Foley Orosz provides eye-opening information about the burgeoning effort to pull public administration and policy research methods out of their alleged doldrums. Increasingly vocal, but not yet working in total concert, self-designated experts now tour national conferences (NASPAA, Teaching Public Administratio…
Balanced Budgets and Depressions
Regulation and Values
Efficiency and Democratic Theory
Peter F. Bouvier
Understanding Research
Extending the Dialogue
Administrative Reform: The Revolutionary Renewal of America
Widening the Dialogue
A Question of Interpretation
Values, Truth, and Administration: God or Mammon
The Risks of "Faddish Attempts" to Reduce Government Budgets
Materialism and Humanism: Organization Theory's Odd Couple
Many argue that work should meet individual needs for fulfillment ( humanism), while meeting needs for personal income and organizational productivity ( materialism). Using a comparative analysis drawn from organization theory, organizatronal hu manism, social philosophy, and political theory, the article demonstrates that com patibility of the two modes is a critical issue throughout social thought . The authors side with those arguing that cont…
"The President's Management "Reforms: Theory X Triumphant
Rejoinder To Ramos' Article
A Protest
Proliferation and the Future: Destruction or Transformation
We must recognize that proliferation includes both nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons, the latter being only a follow-on to the former. The first step toward coping with proliferation is to accept that nuclear weapons are essentially political weapons of terror, not mili tary weapons, even if we have convinced ourselves otherwise. For the near term, proliferation can enhance international stability if it occurs in balanced, rather than unba…
A Response to the Responses
The Naspaa Threat
This piece has a rather complicated history, which it is not necessary to recite. Suffice it to say that publication was decided upon only after considerable deliberation and consultation. The Executive Council of NASPAA was invited to respond, but decided not to try to speak for its more than 170 members. Individual members, as well as others, may wish to address some of the issues; and within the limits of space will be given an opportunity to …
Real and Unreal Issues: A Reply from Thayer
A Contradiction Which Needs Straightening out
A Comment on the Argyris-Simon Debate
Strengthening an Argument
Materialism and Humanism: Organization Theory's Odd Couple
Many argue that work should meet individual needs for fulfillment ( humanism), while meeting needs for personal income and organizational productivity ( materialism). Using a comparative analysis drawn from organization theory, organizatronal hu manism, social philosophy, and political theory, the article demonstrates that com patibility of the two modes is a critical issue throughout social thought . The authors side with those arguing that cont…
Political Corruption as the Result of Electoral Competition, Not Character Weakness
Political corruption according to this commentary is inevitable but not unique. Competition, not character deficiencies, causes cheating in politics, economics, education, and elsewhere. Political corruption is still associated with extraconstitutional political parties, handy devices for exploiting legal and constitutional loopholes. The 1883 Pendleton Act sought to reduce the ability of political winners to reward supporters, but this change wa…
A Question of Interpretation
Values, Truth, and Administration: God or Mammon
Rejoinder To Ramos' Article
Politics and the Airlines. David Corbett
Transportation Policy Analyses
The "Old" Bureaucratic Struggle
International Air Transport: A Microsystem in Need of New Approaches
International air transport is a microsystem which includes most of the variables of the international macrosystem. As Young W. Kihl has put it, for example, a functional international organization such as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) operates within the milieu of the larger system, reflects the constraints of that system, and can, therefore, be examined in the context of world politics. The transport system combines polit…
An Inconsistency
"Presidential Policy Processes and "New Administration: A Search for Revised Paradigms
C ATCH PHRASES CAPTURE some of the flavor of administration. Among others, these include open systems, temporary, changing, dialectical, and problem-solving organizations, and existential executives. The approaches place at least as much emphasis upon interactions between organizations and their external environments as upon the internal workings of complex organizations, because the single organization, whatever its comprehensiveness, can accomp…
Regional administration: The failure of traditional theory in the United States and Canada
Both the US national government and the provincial government of Ontario have dealt with the issue of regional administration, defined in this paper as decentralized field offices and the processes those offices use in interaction with each other and with other levels of government. Within the US, the president has directed major departments to locate field offices in the same cities and to use uniform regional boundaries. He also has charged ten…
Productivity: Taylorism Revisited (Round Three)
Saturday Review published in January 1972 six articles which explored the growing unreality and dehumanization some call it irrelevance of economic theory and analysis.1 The statement is nowhere more applicable than to the subfield of economics, labeled microeconomics, which deals with the individual calculations of producers and consumers within market systems. Macroeconomics, conversely, deals with aggregate movements in income and output, and …
Strengthening an Argument
A Comment on the Argyris-Simon Debate
A Contradiction Which Needs Straightening out
A Response to the Responses
The Naspaa Threat
This piece has a rather complicated history, which it is not necessary to recite. Suffice it to say that publication was decided upon only after considerable deliberation and consultation. The Executive Council of NASPAA was invited to respond, but decided not to try to speak for its more than 170 members. Individual members, as well as others, may wish to address some of the issues; and within the limits of space will be given an opportunity to …
Real and Unreal Issues: A Reply from Thayer
Rejoinder To Ramos' Article
A Protest
Proliferation and the Future: Destruction or Transformation
We must recognize that proliferation includes both nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons, the latter being only a follow-on to the former. The first step toward coping with proliferation is to accept that nuclear weapons are essentially political weapons of terror, not mili tary weapons, even if we have convinced ourselves otherwise. For the near term, proliferation can enhance international stability if it occurs in balanced, rather than unba…
Materialism and Humanism: Organization Theory's Odd Couple
Many argue that work should meet individual needs for fulfillment ( humanism), while meeting needs for personal income and organizational productivity ( materialism). Using a comparative analysis drawn from organization theory, organizatronal hu manism, social philosophy, and political theory, the article demonstrates that com patibility of the two modes is a critical issue throughout social thought . The authors side with those arguing that cont…
"The President's Management "Reforms: Theory X Triumphant
The Risks of "Faddish Attempts" to Reduce Government Budgets
Values, Truth, and Administration: God or Mammon
A Question of Interpretation
Widening the Dialogue
Extending the Dialogue
Administrative Reform: The Revolutionary Renewal of America
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