Pragmatic Discourse and Administrative Legitimacy
Pragmatic Discourse and Administrative Legitimacy
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务实话语与行政合法性
DOI：
10.1177/0275074002032001002
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发表时间：
2002
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Richard C. Box
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Richard C. Box
合法性是公共行政在治理中的地位，一直是美国社会关注的问题。对这一关切的回应包括努力通过界定官僚机构应该做什么来控制它，通过提高其相对于政府其他部门的地位来使其摆脱控制，并将其限制在微观层面，类似市场的管理技术。O. C.基于实用主义的McSweet认为，美国政府的合法性可能会通过从强调公共管理者在指导机构中的作用转向思考管理者如何通过与公民的合作来帮助创建社区而得以恢复。本文提供了一个批判和扩展的McSweet的工作的基础上批判理论的一部分，认为通过合作话语恢复行政合法性，它可能是必要的，以承认和回应的性质的自由资本主义的政治环境。
Legitimacy, the place of public administration in governance, has always been a concern in American society. Responses to this concern have included efforts to control bureaucracy by defining what it should do, to free it from control by elevating its status in relation to other branches of government, and to confine it to micro-level, market-like management techniques. The discourse theory of O. C. McSwite, based on pragmatism, suggests that governmental legitimacy in America may be revived by shifting from an emphasis on the public administrator’s role in directing agencies to thinking about how administrators may assist in creating community through collaboration with citizens. This article offers a critique and extension of McSwite’s work based in part on critical theory, arguing that to recover administrative legitimacy through collaborative discourse, it may be necessary to recognize and respond to the nature of the liberal-capitalist political environment.