Justice and Public Administration |
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| Author:
| Abel, Charles F.
Sementelli, Arthur J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-8028-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $122.95 |
Book Description:
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Justice and Administration is an ambitious effort to grapple with justice as a theoretical component of the practice of public administration, yet with sufficient theoretical power to be meaningful in philosophy, political studies, and sociology. The time is ripe for such an effort, as the questions that gather under the labels of modernity, the postmodern and critical theory now transcend a single discipline. The work of John Rawls on...
More Description Justice and Administration is an ambitious effort to grapple with justice as a theoretical component of the practice of public administration, yet with sufficient theoretical power to be meaningful in philosophy, political studies, and sociology.
The time is ripe for such an effort, as the questions that gather under the labels of modernity, the postmodern and critical theory now transcend a single discipline. The work of John Rawls on justice in public life has had a generation of influence on scholarship, and this work seems to have a high degree of likelihood of making meaningful statements on these questions in the field.