TY - BOOK AU - Box,Richard C. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Making a difference: progressive values in public administration AV - JK421 .B65 2008eb U1 - 172/.20973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Armonk, N.Y. PB - M.E. Sharpe KW - Public administration KW - United States KW - Social values KW - Progressivism (United States politics) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index; Preface -- The case for progressive values -- Making a difference -- Regressive and progressive values -- A conceptual framework -- Human behavior -- Immanent critique in the American context -- Describing the value pairs -- Aggressiveness/cooperation -- Belief/knowledge -- Economics as end/economics as means -- Great inequality/limited inequality -- Earth as resource/earth as home -- Practice and change -- The public professional as agent of change -- Creating change in policy and practice -- Gather information and present it to others -- Change how policy is implemented -- Advocate for programs and policies -- Normative teaching and scholarship -- Beyond the given: normative thought in public administration -- Against the grain: teaching progressive values -- Acceptance and refusal: analysis of current conditions -- Contingent theory -- Analytic approach -- Use of knowledge -- Agency and action -- Toward a progressive public administration -- "Small junctures of theory and practice" -- References -- Index -- About the author; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10292184 ER -