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Governance Ideas for and from the “Knowledge Banks”
Author(s) -
Meyers Roy T.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.01962.x
Subject(s) - politics , government (linguistics) , public administration , state (computer science) , political science , corporate governance , library science , management , sociology , economics , law , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm
Chapter 7 provides an extensive expos? on how value and values can be defined and related to collective action. Although values are "essentially contested concepts" (Gallie 1955, 169) and will remain so after this book, Bozeman at least presents a coherent conceptualization, something that many scholars who study values do not. Chapters 8 and 9 focus primarily on the concept of public value mapping. A public value mapping grid is introduced as "a tool for analyzing normative publicness" (156) and applied to a specific case?that of genetically modified foods and the terminator gene. The concept of public value mapping, albeit a work in progress, as the author is first to admit, provides a concrete framework for making transparent the successes and failures in actual izing public values in specific decision-making and policy processes and is, as such, the first of its kind, at least in terms of applicability and transferability to different cases.