Conceptualizing Public Administration: Public
Administration as a Disciplinary Matrix
Abstract



This paper argues that the debate over the
proper definition of Public Administration is at root a debate over the proper
conceptualization of the field relative to both the private sector and from
other fields and disciplines in the academic sector. To this end, we discuss Public
Administration as a disciplinary matrix describing its role in the state, in the
society, and in the university; and what differentiates its institutions from
other kinds of organizations. More pointedly, we can then argue that Public
Administration, in a sense has a unified, coherent and sufficiently independent
practice, discipline, and object of study when examined through a Kuhnian
lens.





Introduction


Currently, many
practitioners and scholars of �Public Administration� view their field as
encompassing a vast and heterogeneous range of paradigms,......

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