Development of Theory of Democratic Administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3227008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dwight Waldo (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-103 |
| Publication date | 1952-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1950764 |
| OpenAlex | W2141451531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 94 |
| References cited | 25 |
In recent years various theories of "democratic administration" have been developed. These theories differ in their origins, their motivation, their sophistication. Some have been crudely forged in the heat of administration; some are finely-machined products of scholarship. Some pertain especially to private administration, others have been developed for public administration, while still others cut across this conventional division.These theories of democratic administration constitute a significant development in political thought. However crude and limited some of them may be, they open new areas to be explored in the development of democratic ideology; whatever their limitations, they are constructive efforts to adapt an ethic in which we believe to the contemporary world. If administration is indeed "the core of modern government," then a theory of democracy in the twentieth century must embrace administration. I wish to sketch the background of administrative thought and history against which theories of democratic administration are seen in perspective; to review briefly some of these theories; and to comment upon the prospects and problems of the further development of theory of democratic administration
Administration (probate law) · Constructive · Democracy · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sketch · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Administrative Action and Administrative Behaviour
Bureaucratic Resistance in Times of Democratic Backsliding
Public Administration and the Illiberal Challenge
If apples were oranges
Transformando la Sociedad
A relação política-administração. Que se conclui da revisão sistemática da iteratura mais recente
Decolonizing Public Administration in Latin America
Publicness
Public Administration Under Populist Rule
The Multilevel Administrative State and the Future of Public Administration Research
Unveiling the Link between Organizational Politics and Innovative Work Behavior
Reclaiming Weber
Conditions of benefits and risks when algorithmic technology is implemented for public sector policing and fraud detection
Who “We” are matters
Beyond the Weird World
Design science in public administration
The Procedural Politicking Tug of War
Minnowbrook at 50
Democratic Backsliding, Populism, and Public Administration
Roundtable
Public Management’s Problems are Legal Problems
Democracy, Public Administration, and Public Values in an Era of Estrangement
Untangling Public Values
Public Administration and the Study of Political Order
Pre-facing power. The study of power in American political science, 1920–1950
Open innovation during the Covid ‐19 pandemic policy responses in South Africa and Kenya
DHR‐PA —Democracy and human rights in public administration in Africa
Government and Public Administration
A Model of the Arena of PA-Theory
You Have One Friend Request
Democratic Theory and Network Governance
Parades of Reforms and the Quest for Social Equity
Building Practitioner-Held Theory Through Triangulation
Retracted
U.S. against the world
Emerging Theoretical Understanding of Pluricentric Coordination in Public Governance
"Dwight Waldo, Public Administration, and the "Blooming, Buzzing Confusion
Administering Public Participation
Administrative Man Faces the Quality Transformation
Self-Fulfillment in a Bureaucratic Society
Disciplinary Tensions and Institutional Diversity in the Study of Public Administration in Chile
Development of an automated urban heritage monitoring tool
Expertise or Experimenting
What Do We Mean by Democracy? Reflections on an Essentially Contested Concept and Its Relationship to Politics and Public Administration
The Impersonal Sovereign
Identity Without Boundaries
Accountability, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Civil-Military Relations
Poverty, Policy, and Federal Administrative Discourse
Collective Leadership and Context in Public Administration
The Robustness of National Agency Governance in Integrated Administrative Systems
Liberalism and the American Administrative State
The “Efficient” Public Administrator
Public Administration Scholarship and the Politics of Coproducing Academic–Practitioner Research
Herbert Simon's Legacy for Public Administration
The Study of Public Administration in the United States
Let's organize”
Opening the “black box” of public administration
Understanding Government
Public administration sustainability and its organizational basis
Responsive, responsible and respected government
Sensemaking and the political–administrative interface
Discursive framing and organizational venues
Speaking what truth to whom? The uneasy relationship between practitioner and academic knowledge in public administration
Administrative legitimacy and the democratic deficit of the European Union
Ética postconvencional e instituciones en el servicio público
Administrative responses to democratic backsliding
Bureaucracy and the Imaginal Realm
Managerial Practice and Diversity Climate
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Management under Conditions of Decentralization and Citizen Participation
H. George Frederickson and the Dialogue on Citizenship in Public Administration
Shaking Hands with Hitler
Integrating Mary Parker Follett and Public Administration
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Dwight Waldo 1913–2000
Beyond Dichotomy
Beyond Heterodoxy
The Roles of Local Government Managers in Theory and Practice
Who Are the Keepers of the Code? Articulating and Upholding Ethical Standards in the Field of Public Administration
An organisational approach to meta-governance
The Implications for Democracy in a Networked Bureaucratic World
The Public Administration Manifesto II
Between a rock and a hard place
Enhancing democracy via bureaucracy
Implementation Research as Empirical Constitutionalism
Administrative reform assistance and democracy promotion
Rationality and Decision in Administrative Science
The State of Public Administration as an Academic Field in South Africa
Repositioning the Ethical Imperative
Decifrando a esfinge da burocracia subnacional no federalismo brasileiro
Democracy, Organization, Michels
The Democratization of Administration
Reflective Public Administration Reform
How Mafia-Like Bureaucratic Cartels or Thieves in Suits Run Corruption Inside the Bureaucracy, or How Government Officials Swindle Citizens in Kenya
The Public and Its Problems
Role of the Intellectual in Public Bureaucracy
The Study of Comparative Government
Bureaucracy in a Democracy
Grass Roots Democracy-Myth or Reality
Administrative Reorganization
Political Ends and Administrative Means
The Neutrality of the Public Service
Toward Better Public Administration
Bureaucracy and the Problem of Power
Liberty and Science
A Plea for Administrative Decentralization
An Approach to a Theory of Bureaucracy
Foundations of the Theory of Organization
Group Process in Administration
The Responsibility of Administrative Officials in a Democratic Society
Bureaucracy
The Study of Administration
Democracy
From Max Weber
Bureaucratic Structure and Personality
| Unique citing works | 94 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 1953 - 2026 (74) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 94 |