Social Construction of Public Administration

Jong S. Jun is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at California State University at East Bay. He has published many books, including Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge of the New Century.

• ForewordFrank P. SherwoodPreface 1. Introduction The Limitations of Modern Public AdministrationSocial Construction in a Democratic ContextDialectical PossibilitiesLearning from a Cross-Cultural PerspectiveThe Orientation of this Book 2. The Changing Context of Public Administration Unanticipated Consequences in the Twentieth CenturyLessons for the New CenturyReinterpreting the Meaning of Public AdministrationDialectic in Administrative ActionConclusion 3. The Social Constructionist Approach The Limitations of the Functionalist PerspectiveThe Interpretive Critical Theory, and Postmodern PerspectivesTheorizing the Social Constructionist ApproachGlobalization as Social ConstructionReflection 4. Public Administration as Social Design The Use and Abuse of MetaphorDesign: A Basic ConceptAdministrative Science, Art, and Social DesignThe Modes of Administrative and Policy DesignConclusion 5 Social Design in Practice Coproduction and Community PolicingBridging the Digital Divide in Silicon ValleyHelping HomelessnessDesigning the Public Transit SystemThe Clinton Health Care Reform Plan: From Social Design to IncrementalismThe Limits of Social DesignConclusion 6. Understanding Action, Praxis, and Change The Dialectic of Organizational ActionPraxis and ChangeThe Praxis-Oriented AdministratorsChanging Organizations and Action ResearchConclusion 7. The Self in Social Construction Social Construction of the Self: Eastern and Western ViewsThe Self and Sociality: Western ViewsPostmodern Views of the SelfImplications of Eastern and Western ViewsThe Self-Reflexive Individual in a Social ContextThe Self and BureaucracyConclusion 8. The Social Construction of Ethical Responsibility The Ethical Dilemma of the Responsible AdministratorConstructing Ethics in OrganizationsA Public Conception of Autonomy: Confucian and Western ViewsCivic Virtue and the Public GoodConnecting Administrators and CitizensConclusion 9. Civil Society, Governance, and Its Potential The Civil Society Triangle: A New Form of GovernanceFrom Hierarchical Governing to Democratic GovernanceNGOs as a Force for Social ChangeA Case of Local Governance: Resolving the Soup Kitchen ControversyDesigning Modern Development ProjectsGlobalization and Democratization: A ContradictionImplications 10. Concluding Thoughts RecapitulationMaking Social Construction EffectiveThe Tao of Public Administration NotesReferencesIndex