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Trajectories of public administration and administrative history in Australia: Rectifying ‘a curious blight’?
Author(s) -
Scott Joanne,
Wanna John
Publication year - 2005
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/j.1467-8500.2005.00412.x
Subject(s) - rubric , administration (probate law) , specialty , scope (computer science) , face (sociological concept) , public administration , political science , field (mathematics) , public relations , sociology , psychology , law , social science , pedagogy , computer science , mathematics , psychiatry , pure mathematics , programming language
Anyone who has taught courses or conducted research under the rubric of ‘public administration’ must have been troubled more or less frequently by two characteristics of his ‘field’‐ its nebulous scope and its lack of any distinctive technique. He must have felt himself a Jack of all trades as he pottered amateurishly about, now on the fringes of administrative law, now at the margins of accounting and budgeting, and then at the edges of industrial relations and occupational psychology. As a teacher, how often did he face a class of public servants, each more expert and experienced in some specialty than he was in any?