...from political science. The majority of the participants favoured keeping public administration as a sub-field of political science for a number of reasons. One of the reasons had to do with the perception that public administration was still theoretically "underdeveloped" in relationship to the other sub-fields of political science. Such perceived theoretical underdevelopment stems from the managerial top-down focus of much of the public administration literature, which tends to reduce governance issues to financial models and productivity issues. An alternative, critical/ radical literature has begun to develop however by drawing upon critical social and policy theory in order to challenge mainstream public administration theory. Beyond Service is a good example of the alternative, radical public administration literature. The author, Greg McElligott, views public administration as not merely an instrument for executing public policy but also as a major determinant of how civil service workers see the world--particularly...

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