The Three Faces of Public Management

23 p.En el presente texto, el autor reflexiona acerca de la naturaleza de la administración pública como campo de contemplación y de estudios académicos. Al concentrarse en los discursos tecnocrático, constructivista social y clínico, Thompson aborda la manera como cada una de esas perspectivas se han ocupado de las cuestiones doctrinarias básicas de la gestión pública, considerando además las particulares visiones que a este respecto tienen investigadores estadounidenses y europeos. Al final del texto, el autor presenta algunas ideas y conjeturas respecto al futuro de esta disciplina

The Three Faces of Public Management

As an academic field, public management has several aspects: the one that we may refer to as the technocratic, for want of a better term. I shall call the second the social constructivist and, the last, the clinical or craft perspective. The purpose of this essay is to explain each of these discourses, how each would go about addressing the basic doctrinal issues of public management, and where each offers something uniquely useful to the practice of public management. It also offers an apologia pro curriculum vita sum, emphasizing my meta-theoretical beliefs about the pursuit our joint enterprise of researching, synthesizing, and teaching

The New Macroeconomics of Federal Budget Reform

This article provides an analysis of government finance and fiscal policy – taxing and spending – from the perspective of what is termed the new macroeconomics, a part of NIE or new institutional economics. It presents a view that is quite different from that of traditional budget-oriented thinking with respect to how we ought to analyze and measure the consequences of federal government fiscal policy and debt. The author suggests that a macroeconomic approach is more appropriate and makes more sense than traditional conceptions in terms of how we should assess the overall impact and consequences of government finance decisions

Utopia and Nostalgic Return

The term ‘traditional Japanese architecture’ often causes confusionbecause people want the architecture of a certain period to eithercontinue endlessly, or to be substituted by some kind of facsimile.This paper maintains that the roots of Japanese architecture continueand that these roots make themselves evident at times of upheavaland renewal.Japan consists of a number islands which have had periods ofisolation both internationally, and nationally from ‘political lockdown’within. And yet these periods of isolation have often produceda veritable zenith in the houses of what Bruno Taut called “thepeasants”, and the author has chosen to call ‘commoners (minka)’.One example this is the Japanese tea house, which came about at atime of heightened military dominance. Castles were the strongholdsof power complete with large rooms in which the rituals of statedemanded order by rank. Beside this show of power came the humbletea house, used for the simple tea ceremony, sometimes between as few as two people. The roots of this humble hut, if we can call itsuch, carried with it the same structural principles as the minka, orcommoner’s house. A non-loadbearing structure of post and lintelconstruction for the sole purpose of concentrating on “the sound ofboiling water”. Out of the dream of power came the need for humility.The warrior’s power lay in the control of space; the tea master’s in thecontrol of time. The architecture responds. The building is an even

Reducing Barriers to Trade in Nontraded Goods and Services

trade barriers and non-traded good

Reducing Barriers to Trade in Nontraded Goods and Services

trade barriers and non-traded good

Letter from Fred Thompson, Cavalier County Sheriff, regarding Gambling and Bribes, March 11, 1919

Letter from Sheriff Fred A. Thompson to Attorney General William Langer regarding rumors of gambling, bribes, and pro-German statements in Cavalier County, dated March 11, 1919.https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1326/thumbnail.jp