Handbook of Organizational Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach (Public Administration and Public Policy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824701135 ISBN 13: 9780824701130

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Chronologically arranged to demonstrate the evolution of ideas, this book explores major issues in public and government organization theory using classical philosophy. Containing over 2000 bibliographic citations, the book covers the influence Plato's ideas and Jesus' teachings on public administration theory, presents Machiavelli as the creator of the modern concept of public administration, details the effect of mercantilism on political governance, examines the ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Locke, Adam Smith, and David Hume in American government, discusses the importance of Woodrow Wilson, the Progressive Reform Era, and the Bureau Movement on public administration, and more.

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Synopsis:

Explicates the major issues in public and government organization theory using classical philosophy- covering and relating a broad range of individual philosophers as well as philosophic movements to public administration-from Plato to the postmoderns. Chronologically arranged to demonstrate the evolution of ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0824701135
• ISBN 13: 9780824701130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Lynch Thomas D.