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‘The Responsive Public Servant’: Coombs the Man, Coombs the Report
Author(s) -
Rowse Tim
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.00263
Subject(s) - public servant , servant , commission , proposition , political science , coombs test , law , public administration , medicine , engineering , immunology , philosophy , software engineering , epistemology , antibody
In the light of the Coombs Royal Commission’s failure to establish a central proposition, and subsequent contradictory attempts by academics to find one, Rowse offers the tension between the public servant and the public intellectual, manifest in Coombs’ career, as a possible prototype of the ‘responsive public servant’.
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