My article indicates the power that lies in government administration, whilst criticizing certain use and aspects of that power.Game theory, which sees workers as self-interested individuals, rather than perceiving them in an instrumental sense, can work for this article, since seeing government employees as individuals in their own right rather than tools to be arbitrarily shifted around may hinder the Revolving Door policy.
Networked theory may be plausible here, for our society at bottom consists of stratified, interconnected levels, and the Revolving Door policy, as my article attempts to show, is illustrative of contemporary society.
Kettl states that public administration is wired into the American political system and coming from different traditions, results in conflicting values. Hierarchical authority has still retained its clasp and that whilst network theory can offer potential; it needs to be carefully incorporated if done so. My article offers a system towards this end of how industry and political administrative theory can be prudently combined to the benefit of the greater outcome.
By assessing the origins of the Revolving Door policy and its impact on federal government, this article addresses Kettl's three fundamental questions within the perimeters of enhanced understanding of the phenomenology of the Revolving Door policy.
Pollitt
Some see the multi-disciplinary character of Public Administration as a handicap, but it may not necessarily be so. I see it as one that can give the field so much since I can engage in structured, calm,...
Being that Public Administration is multi-disciplinary also opens me to a range of models and theories that I can incorporate in my work. It is to this end, therefore, that I use a matrix of methods in evaluation of history and influence of the Revolving Door policy. Methods include archival and document-based tools as well as a phenomenological and textual analysis of documents in order to gain as complete an understanding of the process as possible.
Moulton
The public as input begins with political authority, working its way through organizations and eventuating with outcome. General research methods focus on how differences in political organization (such as leadership, structural configurations, networks, and so forth) will lead to different outcomes.
The second approach, however, begins from the reverse direction where desired public outcomes are considered and one works backwards devising and assessing ways of how to accomplish these.
My paper deals with a historical overview and in-depth analysis of the whole. It may, therefore, integrate both perspective -- but then integrating both perspectives in the same article can provide us with the best of both components.
References
George, S. (1997). Winning the war of ideas. TNI. http:/www.tni.org/archives/archives-george-dissent.
Kettl, D. Public Administration at the Millennium, J-Part 10, 2000
Pollitt, C. Envisioning…
