Prescriptive thinking: Normative claims as scholarship

Administration and Society

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-165

  Evans, Karen G ^a,c   Lowery, Daniel ^b,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

^b Calumet College of St Joseph   (United States)

^c SPEA   (United States)

^d Northwest Indiana Quality of Life Council   (United States)

Author keywords

Community of scholars; Epistemology; Normative; Pragmatism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645514836     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399706286815     Document Type: Review

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