Richard C Box
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4127989 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard C Box |
| PRENOMES | Richard C |
| SOBRENOME | Box |
| ASSINATURA | BOX R C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0964-9001 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 267 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Context Matters
The political context of public administration in the United States may change considerably in the near future, away from liberal democracy and toward an intensification of the authoritarian populism familiar from the Trump era. The people and practices of public administration experience the effects of the societal context in their daily work and the course of their careers, so that “context matters.” This essay uses the description of the curre…
Administrative Neutrality in the Wake of Trumpism
“Unprecedented” is a much-overworked word in recent descriptions of U.S. politics, but it is difficult to avoid in reflecting on the past 4 years in public administration. Federal civil servants whose work contradicted Trump administration ideology were sidelined, the administration introduced a new employment category that would seriously weaken civil service protections, and government at all levels now functions in an environment of widespread…
Into a New Regressive Era
American politics periodically shifts from a progressive orientation toward social change to a regressive orientation. During progressive phases, governmental attention is focused on strengthening the social safety net, protecting minority and immigrant populations, and regulating private sector activities in finance, business, and the physical environment. During regressive phases, legislation and administrative actions are designed to weaken or…
Sharecropper Finance
Fines and fees charged to lower-income people, mostly African Americans, have long been a mainstay of the revenue stream for the city of Ferguson, Missouri, and other local governments. One outcome of this practice is financial dependency that limits the life-choices of the affected population. This current policy issue shares characteristics with the much older technique of sharecropping, suggesting a long-term pattern of financial exploitation …
Democracy and Public Administration
The Human Element
Research on the people who deliver public services offers a useful alternative perspective in an applied field with an orientation toward organizational systems, performance, and accountability. It begins inside public organizations, treating public professionals as the subjects of research rather than objects to be controlled and manipulated. This essay reviews three new books that explore aspects of this alternative perspective, which we may ca…
Public Service Values
Progressive Utopias
The present and future characteristics of the society surrounding public administration are of particular interest to scholars and practitioners who think social change is important. An understanding of current conditions is a necessary starting point, but social change needs a goal, a purpose, a direction; without this, the question becomes "Change for what?" Three progressive models of an ideal society offer contrasting perspectives on politica…
Marcuse Was Right
The concept of one-dimensionality identified oppressive characteristics of societies in the 1960s, suggesting that they could intensify over time until few people are able to imagine alternatives. This concept and its related body of work are largely forgotten today, associated with a time and set of circumstances that have passed. This article argues that instead of disappearing, onedimensionality has matured and become commonplace, fulfilling M…
Symposium The Dismal (Delusional and Dangerous) “Science” of Economics and the “Capture” of Public Administration
Many people worldwide were relieved when the Bush administration left office. The promise of change suggested that a long, unpleasant period was ending and something better was imminent. However, societal systems tend to resist change, and it can be illusory. One way to think about change today is to contrast a vision of a global market paradise with the idea of a mature one-dimensional society in which the economic market paradigm crowds out kno…
Redescribing the public interest
Though it is a vague, indeterminate construct, “the public interest” continues to be used in public administration writing. It is suggested that extant substantive, aggregative, and process descriptions pay insufficient attention to the economic and political context, the ability of members of the public to determine what their interests may be, and the temporal dimension of the public interest. A critical redescription of the concept is offered …
Dialogue and Administrative Theory & Praxis
Administrative Theory & Praxis began in 1979 as Dialogue, the newsletter of the newly created Public Administration Theory Network. It has developed over twenty-five years as a forum for “alternative” theory in public administration. This paper describes some of the work published in Dialogue/ATP from 1979 to 2004 to illustrate issues of interest to authors in the journal during this time. Examples of articles are given in five substantive catego…
Symposium—Fox and Miller's Postmodern Public Administration Ten Years Later
(2005). Symposium—Fox and Miller's Postmodern Public Administration Ten Years Later. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 467-468
Symposium
Alternatives to Representative Primacy and Administrative Efficiency
Historically, institutional practices and formal structures have been used to maintain preferred distributions of wealth and power. Advocates of greater democracy may think that decentralization of authority in public institutions, from elected officials and public professionals to citizens, is better than centralization. However, the potential for citizen self-governance is limited in a centralized system characterized by representative primacy,…
Experiments with Local Federalism
Federalism involves allocation of powers between units of government at different geographic levels. In local areas, changes in relationships between units of government may be effected through incorporation or disincorporation, annexation, formation of new layers of government, or interjurisdictional agreements. It may be difficult for residents who seek change to achieve it through alteration of jurisdictional boundaries or intergovernmental hi…
Contradiction, Utopia, and Public Administration
In 1964, in the midst of a dominant political-economic system providing an unprecedented standard of living, Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man challenged the status quo. Marcuse argued there exists a contradiction between a life of material plenty supported by instrumental thought crowding out awareness of alternatives, and potential life options people might choose if they were free to understand them. This contradiction is evident in four a…
Symposium-The Status Of Democracy Introduction to the Symposium on The Status of Democracy
Pragmatic Discourse and Administrative Legitimacy
Legitimacy, the place of public administration in governance, has always been a concern in American society. Responses to this concern have included efforts to control bureaucracy by defining what it should do, to free it from control by elevating its status in relation to other branches of government, and to confine it to micro-level, market-like management techniques. The discourse theory of O. C. McSwite, based on pragmatism, suggests that gov…
On the Nature of Graduate Student Research
Private Lives and Anti-Administration
Much theory in public administration assumes that citizens are, or should be, deeply involved in public affairs. However, most people are not involved in public discourse, leaving them vulnerable to actions taken by the small percentage of the population who do participate. Public administrators are key actors in shaping perceptions of which problems should rise to the public agenda, what action alternatives are available, and how implementation …
New Public Management and Substantive Democracy
The authors are concerned that a remaining refuge of substantive democracy in America, the public sector, is in danger of abandoning it in favor of the market model of management. They argue that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive form. The classical republican model of citizen involvement faded with the rise of liberal capitalist society in the late nineteenth and early twentie…
The “T”ruth Is Elsewhere
This essay begins by deconstructing the basic question of how the present is defined in traditional historical explanation or analysis. It is our contention that to “rewrite” the present, one must be critical, examining the assumptions and methods behind historical “data” to identify what might be missed-whose stories are silenced-when theorists rely upon only the “great stories” of past events or “great men,” and to reveal metanarratives of hist…
The State and the Citizen
The nature of citizenship and the relationship of the individual to the state are topics of universal concern. In a dialogue about the idea of communitarianism, the authors discovered some differences in perspective between Danes and Americans. The paper explores those differences, examining American communitarian thought, its place in the political culture, and its relationship to public administration. It then turns to Danish republican thought…
Letter from the University of Nebraska at Omaha
(1999). Letter from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 3-3
New Public Management and Substantive Democracy
The authors are concerned that a remaining refuge of substantive democracy in America, the public sector, is in danger of abandoning it in favor of the market model of management. They argue that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive form. The classical republican model of citizen involvement faded with the rise of liberal capitalist society in the late nineteenth and early twentie…
Running Government Like a Business
The public sector faces increasing demands to run government like a business, importing privatesector concepts such as entrepreneurism, privatization, treating the citizen like a “customer,” and management techniques derived from the production process. The idea that government should mimic the market is not new in American public administration, but the current situation is particularly intense. The new public management seeks to emphasize effic…
Experiments with Local Federalism
Federalism involves allocation of powers between units of government at different geographic levels. In local areas, changes in relationships between units of government may be effected through incorporation or disincorporation, annexation, formation of new layers of government, or interjurisdictional agreements. It may be difficult for residents who seek change to achieve it through alteration of jurisdictional boundaries or intergovernmental hi…
Pragmatic Discourse and Administrative Legitimacy
Legitimacy, the place of public administration in governance, has always been a concern in American society. Responses to this concern have included efforts to control bureaucracy by defining what it should do, to free it from control by elevating its status in relation to other branches of government, and to confine it to micro-level, market-like management techniques. The discourse theory of O. C. McSwite, based on pragmatism, suggests that gov…
Context Matters
The political context of public administration in the United States may change considerably in the near future, away from liberal democracy and toward an intensification of the authoritarian populism familiar from the Trump era. The people and practices of public administration experience the effects of the societal context in their daily work and the course of their careers, so that “context matters.” This essay uses the description of the curre…
The Administrator as Trustee of the Public Interest
Recent articles in Administration & Society have probed the question of administrative discretion, with most advocating an expanded sphere of responsibility for the administrator. This article argues that calls for greater discretion are useful from a normative viewpoint, but that administrative practice is constrained by the relationship between the administrator and the governing body. A typology of discretion is offered which distinguishes bet…
Sharecropper Finance
Fines and fees charged to lower-income people, mostly African Americans, have long been a mainstay of the revenue stream for the city of Ferguson, Missouri, and other local governments. One outcome of this practice is financial dependency that limits the life-choices of the affected population. This current policy issue shares characteristics with the much older technique of sharecropping, suggesting a long-term pattern of financial exploitation …
Redescribing the public interest
Though it is a vague, indeterminate construct, “the public interest” continues to be used in public administration writing. It is suggested that extant substantive, aggregative, and process descriptions pay insufficient attention to the economic and political context, the ability of members of the public to determine what their interests may be, and the temporal dimension of the public interest. A critical redescription of the concept is offered …
Critical Theory and the Paradox of Discourse
The work of public administration theorists who argue for a broader sphere of administrative discretion falls into three broad paradigms: the legitimacy paradigm, the guardian paradigm, and the critical paradigm. Legitimacy theorists argue for recognition within the Constitutional framework, and guardian theorists argue for more discretion for administrators to govern for the uninformed public. Neither view has much practical impact because neith…
Private Lives and Anti-Administration
Much theory in public administration assumes that citizens are, or should be, deeply involved in public affairs. However, most people are not involved in public discourse, leaving them vulnerable to actions taken by the small percentage of the population who do participate. Public administrators are key actors in shaping perceptions of which problems should rise to the public agenda, what action alternatives are available, and how implementation …
Administrative Neutrality in the Wake of Trumpism
“Unprecedented” is a much-overworked word in recent descriptions of U.S. politics, but it is difficult to avoid in reflecting on the past 4 years in public administration. Federal civil servants whose work contradicted Trump administration ideology were sidelined, the administration introduced a new employment category that would seriously weaken civil service protections, and government at all levels now functions in an environment of widespread…
Into a New Regressive Era
American politics periodically shifts from a progressive orientation toward social change to a regressive orientation. During progressive phases, governmental attention is focused on strengthening the social safety net, protecting minority and immigrant populations, and regulating private sector activities in finance, business, and the physical environment. During regressive phases, legislation and administrative actions are designed to weaken or…
The “T”ruth Is Elsewhere
This essay begins by deconstructing the basic question of how the present is defined in traditional historical explanation or analysis. It is our contention that to “rewrite” the present, one must be critical, examining the assumptions and methods behind historical “data” to identify what might be missed-whose stories are silenced-when theorists rely upon only the “great stories” of past events or “great men,” and to reveal metanarratives of hist…
Progressive Utopias
The present and future characteristics of the society surrounding public administration are of particular interest to scholars and practitioners who think social change is important. An understanding of current conditions is a necessary starting point, but social change needs a goal, a purpose, a direction; without this, the question becomes "Change for what?" Three progressive models of an ideal society offer contrasting perspectives on politica…
Marcuse Was Right
The concept of one-dimensionality identified oppressive characteristics of societies in the 1960s, suggesting that they could intensify over time until few people are able to imagine alternatives. This concept and its related body of work are largely forgotten today, associated with a time and set of circumstances that have passed. This article argues that instead of disappearing, onedimensionality has matured and become commonplace, fulfilling M…
Alternatives to Representative Primacy and Administrative Efficiency
Historically, institutional practices and formal structures have been used to maintain preferred distributions of wealth and power. Advocates of greater democracy may think that decentralization of authority in public institutions, from elected officials and public professionals to citizens, is better than centralization. However, the potential for citizen self-governance is limited in a centralized system characterized by representative primacy,…
The State and the Citizen
The nature of citizenship and the relationship of the individual to the state are topics of universal concern. In a dialogue about the idea of communitarianism, the authors discovered some differences in perspective between Danes and Americans. The paper explores those differences, examining American communitarian thought, its place in the political culture, and its relationship to public administration. It then turns to Danish republican thought…
Resistance to Professional Managers in American Local Government
}Because of the American tradition of self-government and mistrust of administration, city-management professionals face difficulty in securing citizen acceptance of their roles. This is a particularly acute problem in the city manager form of local government because the manager is highly visible as the non-elected executive head of the agency. This paper argues that community resistance to the role of the local government general management pro…
Contradiction, Utopia, and Public Administration
In 1964, in the midst of a dominant political-economic system providing an unprecedented standard of living, Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man challenged the status quo. Marcuse argued there exists a contradiction between a life of material plenty supported by instrumental thought crowding out awareness of alternatives, and potential life options people might choose if they were free to understand them. This contradiction is evident in four a…
The Administrator as Trustee of the Public Interest
Recent articles in Administration & Society have probed the question of administrative discretion, with most advocating an expanded sphere of responsibility for the administrator. This article argues that calls for greater discretion are useful from a normative viewpoint, but that administrative practice is constrained by the relationship between the administrator and the governing body. A typology of discretion is offered which distinguishes bet…
Public Choice and Public Administration
An Examination of the Debate over Research in Public Administration
Resistance to Professional Managers in American Local Government
}Because of the American tradition of self-government and mistrust of administration, city-management professionals face difficulty in securing citizen acceptance of their roles. This is a particularly acute problem in the city manager form of local government because the manager is highly visible as the non-elected executive head of the agency. This paper argues that community resistance to the role of the local government general management pro…
Critical Theory and the Paradox of Discourse
The work of public administration theorists who argue for a broader sphere of administrative discretion falls into three broad paradigms: the legitimacy paradigm, the guardian paradigm, and the critical paradigm. Legitimacy theorists argue for recognition within the Constitutional framework, and guardian theorists argue for more discretion for administrators to govern for the uninformed public. Neither view has much practical impact because neith…
Citizen Governance
Letter from the University of Nebraska at Omaha
(1999). Letter from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 3-3
Letter from the University of Omaha
(1999). Letter from the University of Omaha. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 397-397
An Introduction
Running Government Like a Business
The public sector faces increasing demands to run government like a business, importing privatesector concepts such as entrepreneurism, privatization, treating the citizen like a “customer,” and management techniques derived from the production process. The idea that government should mimic the market is not new in American public administration, but the current situation is particularly intense. The new public management seeks to emphasize effic…
Bringing the Public into Public Administration
Weaving the Public into Public Administration
The “T”ruth Is Elsewhere
This essay begins by deconstructing the basic question of how the present is defined in traditional historical explanation or analysis. It is our contention that to “rewrite” the present, one must be critical, examining the assumptions and methods behind historical “data” to identify what might be missed-whose stories are silenced-when theorists rely upon only the “great stories” of past events or “great men,” and to reveal metanarratives of hist…
The State and the Citizen
The nature of citizenship and the relationship of the individual to the state are topics of universal concern. In a dialogue about the idea of communitarianism, the authors discovered some differences in perspective between Danes and Americans. The paper explores those differences, examining American communitarian thought, its place in the political culture, and its relationship to public administration. It then turns to Danish republican thought…
On the Nature of Graduate Student Research
Private Lives and Anti-Administration
Much theory in public administration assumes that citizens are, or should be, deeply involved in public affairs. However, most people are not involved in public discourse, leaving them vulnerable to actions taken by the small percentage of the population who do participate. Public administrators are key actors in shaping perceptions of which problems should rise to the public agenda, what action alternatives are available, and how implementation …
New Public Management and Substantive Democracy
The authors are concerned that a remaining refuge of substantive democracy in America, the public sector, is in danger of abandoning it in favor of the market model of management. They argue that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive form. The classical republican model of citizen involvement faded with the rise of liberal capitalist society in the late nineteenth and early twentie…
Symposium-The Status Of Democracy Introduction to the Symposium on The Status of Democracy
Pragmatic Discourse and Administrative Legitimacy
Legitimacy, the place of public administration in governance, has always been a concern in American society. Responses to this concern have included efforts to control bureaucracy by defining what it should do, to free it from control by elevating its status in relation to other branches of government, and to confine it to micro-level, market-like management techniques. The discourse theory of O. C. McSwite, based on pragmatism, suggests that gov…
Contradiction, Utopia, and Public Administration
In 1964, in the midst of a dominant political-economic system providing an unprecedented standard of living, Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man challenged the status quo. Marcuse argued there exists a contradiction between a life of material plenty supported by instrumental thought crowding out awareness of alternatives, and potential life options people might choose if they were free to understand them. This contradiction is evident in four a…
Symposium
Alternatives to Representative Primacy and Administrative Efficiency
Historically, institutional practices and formal structures have been used to maintain preferred distributions of wealth and power. Advocates of greater democracy may think that decentralization of authority in public institutions, from elected officials and public professionals to citizens, is better than centralization. However, the potential for citizen self-governance is limited in a centralized system characterized by representative primacy,…
Experiments with Local Federalism
Federalism involves allocation of powers between units of government at different geographic levels. In local areas, changes in relationships between units of government may be effected through incorporation or disincorporation, annexation, formation of new layers of government, or interjurisdictional agreements. It may be difficult for residents who seek change to achieve it through alteration of jurisdictional boundaries or intergovernmental hi…
Dialogue and Administrative Theory & Praxis
Administrative Theory & Praxis began in 1979 as Dialogue, the newsletter of the newly created Public Administration Theory Network. It has developed over twenty-five years as a forum for “alternative” theory in public administration. This paper describes some of the work published in Dialogue/ATP from 1979 to 2004 to illustrate issues of interest to authors in the journal during this time. Examples of articles are given in five substantive catego…
Symposium—Fox and Miller's Postmodern Public Administration Ten Years Later
(2005). Symposium—Fox and Miller's Postmodern Public Administration Ten Years Later. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 467-468
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