Bibliografía: p. 253-285

1. The Legitimacy Question -- 2. Why Worry about Role Conceptualization? Professional Socialization in Public Administration
IntroductionThe Importance of Role Conceptualization in Public Administration
What Is Role Conceptualization?
How Role Conception Is Formed
Step 1: Practitioner Acts as Role Taker
Step 2: Role Performance Is Performed and Assessed
Step 3: Experience Impacts Role Conception and Conceptualization
Step 4: Pedagogy Transmits Role Conceptualizations --
3. Using Theoretical Frameworks as Interpretive Lenses
Introduction
Developing and Assessing Theoretical Frameworks
Significant Focus
Organizing Capacity
Coherency
Frameworks in Public Administration
Dwight Waldo
David Rosenbloom
Richard Stillman
Orion White
David Farmer
Jan Kooiman
Historical Eras and Schools of Thought
The Founding Era
An Orthodoxy Emerges
The Refounding Era
The Reinventing Era
The Transformational Era
Summing Up
Tradition as a Framework Metaphor --
4. How the Traditions Framework Was Created
Introduction
Employing the Ideal-Type Method
Identify a Social Phenomenon of Interest
Choose a Culturally Significant Frame of Reference
Identify Essential Generic Elements
Interpret Genetic Meanings
Construct the Ideal-Types

THE TRADITIONS FRAMEWORK
5. The Generic Elements of Each Tradition
Introduction
Political Ontology
Political Authority and Scope of Action
Criterion of Proper Behavior
Administrative Decision-Making
Rationality
Associated Organizing Style
Assumed Governance Context
Implications for Role Conceptualization
Pulling the Type Together --
6. The Constitutional Tradition—Bureaucratic Accountability to the Constitutional Order
Portrait of a Bureaucrat
Introduction
Political Ontology
Political Authority and Scope of Action
Criterion of Proper Behavior
Accountability through Neutral Competence
Accountability through Agency Conservation
Administrative Decision-Making Rationality
Organizing Style
Assumed Governance Context
Implications for Role Conceptualization
Tradition Summary --
7. The Discretionary Tradition—Entrepreneurial Responsibility for Desirable Outcomes
Portraits of Entrepreneurs
Introduction
Political Ontology
Political Authority and Scope of Action
Criterion of Proper Behavior
Responsibility for Instrumental Outcomes
Responsibility for Social Outcomes
Summary
Administrative Decision-Making Rationality
Organizing Style
Assumed Governance Context
Implications for Role Conceptualization
Tradition Summary --
8. The Collaborative Tradition—Stewardship Responsiveness to the Citizenry
Portrait of a Steward
Introduction
Political Ontology
Political Authority and Scope of Action
Criterion of Proper Behavior
"Administrative" Decision-Making Rationality
Organizing Style
Assumed Governance Context
Implications for Role Conceptualization
Tradition Summary --

CRITIQUE AND ANALYSIS
9. Mutual Critiques among Traditions
Introduction
How the Traditions Fail to Achieve Their Own Logics
Elected Officials Fail to Represent or Control
Administrators Fail to Follow Orders or Rules
Discretion Fails to Produce the Public Good
Collaboration Fails to Produce the Public Good
How the Traditions Fail According to Other Logics
Democracy Is Inefficient and Ineffective
Administrative Discretion Is Undemocratic
Representation Is Problematic
Government Has Been Captured by Market Interests or Self-Interest
Collaboration Is Unconstitutional
Collaboration Fails to Achieve the Public Interest (Because It Is Only Partial)
Summing Up --
10. Integrations, Conciliations, and Dialectical Syntheses
Introduction
Key Integrations or Conciliations of Traditions
Integrationist Approaches
Conciliatory Approaches
Summation
Dialectical Relationship Within and Among Traditions
Dialectic Within Traditions
Dialectic Among Traditions --
11. Assessing Contextual Fit of the Traditions—A Mental Experiment
Introduction
The Emerging Contemporary Governance Context
Critical Discussion
Structural Fit
Normative Fit
Barriers to (R)Evolution
How Do We Get There?
Summation -- References
Appendix: Foundations Course Outline
Section 1: Introduction to the Course and Its Purpose in the MPA Program
Section 2: The Landscape of Public Administration Theory
Section 3: The Historical Roots of Public Administration
Section 4: Competing Logics of Legitimacy in Public Administration
Section 5: Putting Theory into Practice: Blended Logics and Individual Preferences

The discipline of public administration draws predominantly from political and organizational theory, but also from other social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, and even theology. This diversity results in conflicting prescriptions for the "proper" administrative role. So, how are those new to public administration to know which ideas are "legitimate"?
Rather than accepting conventional arguments for administrative legitimacy