TY - JOUR
T1 - Democracy, Public Administration, and Public Values in an Era of Estrangement
AU - Ventriss, Curtis
AU - Perry, James L.
AU - Nabatchi, Tina
AU - Milward, H. Brinton
AU - Johnston, Jocelyn M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Public Management Research Association. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - This essay responds to the prevailing political environment of estrangement that can be seen in the growing distrust of public institutions, intensifying levels of political polarization, and rising support for populism, particularly in the United States. These trends have contributed to a diminished sense of publicness in public administration, including an erosion of public values and political legitimacy, and an increasingly cynical view of the value, role, and purpose of public service in the modern polity. We argue that public administration must respond actively to this estrangement and seek to repair and strengthen the links between democracy, public administration, and public values through scholarship, connections to practice and the public, and education.
AB - This essay responds to the prevailing political environment of estrangement that can be seen in the growing distrust of public institutions, intensifying levels of political polarization, and rising support for populism, particularly in the United States. These trends have contributed to a diminished sense of publicness in public administration, including an erosion of public values and political legitimacy, and an increasingly cynical view of the value, role, and purpose of public service in the modern polity. We argue that public administration must respond actively to this estrangement and seek to repair and strengthen the links between democracy, public administration, and public values through scholarship, connections to practice and the public, and education.
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U2 - 10.1093/ppmgov/gvz013
DO - 10.1093/ppmgov/gvz013
M3 - Article
SN - 2398-4910
VL - 2
SP - 275
EP - 282
JO - Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
JF - Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
IS - 4
ER -