Administrative Objectives for Development Administration
Comparative Public Administration
ISBN: 978-0-76231-359-4, eISBN: 978-1-84950-453-9
Publication date: 22 December 2006
Abstract
Human beings need a cognitive structuring of their activities – need to know what they are doing – if regressive (childish) behaviors are to be avoided.8 Clear goals can help to provide this cognitive structuring if they are “operationa1,” meaning that the impact of a proposed action on the goal must be demonstrated with sufficient credulity so that a reasonable person can accept the demonstration without denying his own rational nature.
Citation
Thompson, V.A. (2006), "Administrative Objectives for Development Administration", Otenyo, E.E. and Lind, N.S. (Ed.) Comparative Public Administration (Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0732-1317(06)15008-3
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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