TY  - BOOK
TI  - Public administration: traditions of inquiry and philosophies of knowledge.
SN  - 9781589017047
AV  - JF1351.C46 
U1  - 351 21
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Public administration
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Introduction -- Intellectual heritage and theoretical developments: is public administration an art or a science? -- Searching for a paradigm: public administration as a postnormal science -- Identity crises in the social sciences -- Searching for truth: the logic of inquiry in public administration -- Theory building through qualitative approaches -- Theory building through quantitative research -- Theory building through mixed-method research -- Heterogeneity in epistemic traditions --
ER  -