Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public AdministrationThis inspirational work encourages Public Administration professionals to participate in progressive social change by advocating progressive values to counter the regressive values currently dominant in American society. The book begins with an analysis of regressive and progressive societal values, and then discusses specific actions PA practitioners, scholars, and teachers can take to build awareness and use of progressive values. The author presents regressive and progressive values in five matched pairs, each representing a continuum of thought and action: aggressiveness and cooperation; belief and knowledge; economics as end, and economics as means; great inequality and limited inequality; and Earth as resource, and Earth as home. |
Contents
The Case for Progressive Values | 25 |
Describing the Value Pairs | 38 |
Practice and Change | 74 |
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Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration ... Richard C Box Limited preview - 2009 |
Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration Richard C. Box Limited preview - 2008 |
Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration ... Richard C Box Limited preview - 2009 |
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