Rediscovering the Taproot
Is Classical Pragmatism the Route to Renew Public Administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7984783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia M Shields (0000-0002-0960-4869, Texas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-221 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00856.x |
| OpenAlex | W2130578791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 77 |
The origins of the influential American philosophy classical pragmatism and of American public administration overlap. On the surface, it appears that classical pragmatism had no influence on the emerging field of American public administration. Why were the two never properly wed? This essay first traces the historical connections that link public administration and classical pragmatism. Second, using a framework that is simple to remember, the tenets of classical pragmatism—practical, pluralistic, participatory, and provisional—are explored and applied to public administration. The marriage of classical pragmatism and public administration should prove endlessly fertile
Administration (probate law · Citizen journalism · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Political science · Pragmatism · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Public Administration
Paradoxes in collaborative governance
Designing response networks in turbulent times
Ecossistema de inovação social, sustentabilidade e experimentação democrática
Social innovation ecosystems, sustainability, and democratic experimentation
Parameters – Full Issue – Summer 2017
Public Administration Scholarship and the Politics of Coproducing Academic–Practitioner Research
One, none, and a hundred thousand” recipes for a robust response to turbulence
Pragmatist Democracy
The Study of Public Administration in the United States
Autonomy, Integrity, and Values in Public Administration
Network Interventions
What Is The Public ? A Pragmatic Analysis of a Core Concept in Public Administration
Data and values in public-sector decision making
Collaborative Research, Public Inquiry, and Democratic Experimentalism
An Ethic of Race for Public Administration
Public Administration's Utopia
Simulation Rules
The State of Theory in the Study of Public Administration in the United States
Getting it Right
Philosophy for Public Administration
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making
Is American Public Administration Detached From Historical Context
Peaceweaving
Theory-Pluralism in Public Administration
Navigating the Eternally Unfolding Present
Minds, Hearts, and Bodies, Not Data Points
Institutional Injustice
Pragmatism, The New Republic , and American Public Administration at Its Founding
Taming Deep Uncertainty
On the Problem of Adopting Pragmatism in Public Administration
Pragmatist Tools for Public Administration
Reconciling the Varieties of Pragmatism in Public Administration
The Difference That Women Make
The Dynamics of Positivism in the Study of Public Administration
Out of the Woods
Fractured hegemony and Vietnamese pragmatism in the Red River basin
Managing Co-production. Lessons from Pragmatist and neo-Aristotelian Approaches
Saving Samuel Huntington and the Need for Pragmatic Civil-Military Relations
Diversity Management and the Postdiversity Vision
Integrating philosophical perspectives into the study of public administration
Neoliberalism, the University, Public Goods and Agricultural Innovation
John Dewey and American Democracy
The new state
Logic, the theory of inquiry
The Metaphysical Club
The Proverbs of Administration
The Science of Public Administration
Social thought in America
How we think.
The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Experience and nature.
Essays in experimental logic.
The varieties of religious experience
Reconstruction in philosophy.
Pragmatism
Administrative behavior
Democracy and Social Ethics
Beyond Realism and Antirealism
Friedrich, Pragmatism, and the Warrants of Authority
Democracy and the Social Feminist Ethics of Jane Addams
Rethinking Public Administration’s Roots in Pragmatism
The Parallel Universes
Rortyan Pragmatism
Response to Stever and Garrison
On Hugh T. Miller on “Why Old Pragmatism Needs an Upgrade”
Why Old Pragmatism Needs an Upgrade
Classical Pragmatism Does Not Need an Upgrade
Contemporary Pragmatism in Public Administration
Reclaiming John Dewey
Mary Parker Follett and the Quest for Pragmatic Administration
Expertise or Experimenting
Residues of Foundationalism in Classic Pragmatism
Upgrade or a Different Animal Altogether
A View from the Trenches
Technology Organization, Freedom
Classical Pragmatism
What Can Rorty Teach an Old Pragmatist Doing Public Administration or Planning
Pragmatism, Neopragmatism, and Public Administration
History and American Public Administration
The Dual Image of the Administrator in Progressive Administrative Theory
Pragmatism and Public Administration
Pragmatism
Ideal and Practice in Public Administration
Social Thought in America
The Tides of Reform Revisited
Introduction to the Symposium on Collaborative Public Management
Organized Democracy
The promise of expertise
The American Mind
Art as Experience (1934)
Citizen Participation
Moral man and immoral society
The Myth of the Dichotomy
A New Vision for Public Administration
Trends in the Theory of Public Administration
Do Networks Really Work? A Framework for Evaluating Public‐Sector Organizational Networks
Managing Boundaries in American Administration
Premises of Public Administration
Times of Turbulence
The Science of Public Administration
The Proverbs of Administration
John Dewey and American Political Science
The Community of Inquiry
Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm
The Study of Administration
Where's the Beef
The Dewey-Lippmann Debate Today
| Unique citing works | 41 |
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| Citations per year | 2,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |