A response to ralph F. Shangraw, Jr. And Michael M. crow: A critique of the design science approach to public administration

International Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 21, Issue 6-8, 1998, Pages 1079-1087

  Sam Overman, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 84937258113     PISSN: 01900692     EISSN: 15324265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01900699808525335     Document Type: Article

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1. Shangraw, R.F., and Crow, Michael. Public Administration as a Design Science. presented at Minnowbrook II conference. September 4-8. New York: Blue Mountain Lake. This paper is a response to
2. Miller, T., ed. 1984. “ Conclusion: A Design Science Perspective ”. In Public Sector Performance, 251–268. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. T. Miller is most noted for developing the design science approach in public management
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4. Shangraw and Crow. supra, 7–16. note 1
5. Churchman, C.W., 1968. The Systems Approach, New York: Dell Publishing Company. Classic among the early systems literature
6. Gawthrop, Louis. 1984. Public Sector Management Systems and Ethics, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. What may be a classic among the late systems literature
7. National Academy of Public Administration. November 1983. Revitalizing Federal Management: Managers and Their Overburdened Systems, November, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Public Administration. This is a serious, practical indictment of the systems approach, co-sponsored by sixteen federal agencies across every aspect of federal management
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11. Holling, C.S., ed. 1980. Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management, New York: John Wiley.
12. Overman, E.S., 1987. Policy Physics: Exploring the Convergence of Quantum Physics and Policy Science. Management Science and Policy Science, 4: 30–39. Fall/Winter “Quantum Theory and Management Science,” presented at the National Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, California, August 1988
13. Daneke, G., On Paradigmatic Progress in Public Policy and Administration. Policy Studies Journal, forthcoming, and “Policy Evaluation in an Evolving World: Towards an Advanced Systems Perspective,” forthcoming in S. Nagel and W.N. Dunn (eds.). Policy Theory and Policy Evaluation, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. The popular version of chaos theory is by Gleick, J. Chaos, Viking Press, New York, 1987. A more technical and original treatment is found in Prigogine, I. and Stengers, M. Order Out of Chaos, Bantam Books, New York, 1984
14. Simon, H., 1969. The Science of the Artificial, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
15. Ingraham, P., 1987. Toward More Systematic Consideration of Policy Design. Policy Studies Journal, 15 June: 611–628.
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19. Gawthrop. supra, 141 note 1