Examining Frank J. Goodnow’s Hegelian Heritage

Rosser, Christian

doi:10.1177/0095399712451898

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Darwin and American public administration

Slomski

2021

Polit. life sci.

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This research note addresses a gap in the public administration literature by arguing that a political Darwinism was present in the intellectual origins of American administrative theory. By examining the arguments of Woodrow Wilson, this article demonstrates that Darwinism complemented the German political thought that contributed to the establishment of America’s administrative state. The application of Darwinian evolutionary biology to politics was a vital element of Wilson’s reconceptualization of the state as a living organism. Darwinism was a key rhetorical tool employed by Wilson in his argument against the Constitution’s separation of powers. This note finds that Darwinism was present in the early stages of public administration theory in Wilson’s argumentation and persists today in the public administration literature. It concludes by sketching out an agenda for further research on Darwinism’s influence on public administration.

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Darwin and American public administration

Slomski

2021

Polit. life sci.

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Max Weber’s Bequest for European Public Administration

Rosser¹

2017

The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe

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Questioning the Constitutional Order: A Comparison of the French and the U.S. Politics–Administration Dichotomy Controversies After World War II

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Mavrot

2016

The American Review of Public Administration

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By comparing the French and the U.S. controversies on the appropriate position of public administration within the constitutional order of the state after World War II, this article aims to contribute to the historical clarification of the politics-administration dichotomy as one of the key ideas of administrative research and theory. The article underscores that the same phenomenon-the rejection of the dichotomy-has led to different conclusions among administrative scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, the dichotomy was rejected in favor of a reinforcement of the legislature and the judiciary as well as a more representative administration to preserve the plurality of interests of American society. In contrast, the French rejection was aimed toward strengthening the executive and the administrative elite as guardians of the general interest. The article illustrates how ideas and values about public administration change according to different spatiotemporal contexts. If these contexts are disregarded, understanding remains fragmentary at best, if not misleading.

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Examining Frank J. Goodnow’s Hegelian Heritage

Abstract: This study examines the extent to which Goodnow's ideas about public administration were informed by Hegelian political philosophy. Hegel's reflections on the characteristics of the state and public administration came to Goodnow's attention from such scholars as

Cited by 6 publications

References 53 publications

Darwin and American public administration

Darwin and American public administration

Max Weber’s Bequest for European Public Administration

Questioning the Constitutional Order: A Comparison of the French and the U.S. Politics–Administration Dichotomy Controversies After World War II

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