TY - JOUR
T1 - Narratives of participatory governance
T2 - Social science and democracy in Mark Bevir’s a theory of governance
AU - Ron, Amit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by Pracademics Press.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Mark Bevir’s A Theory of Governance proposes a Copernican revolution in the way we understand the role of social science in public administration. Conventional accounts assign social science the role of instructing public administrators how to steer its machinery towards the public interest, based on social science’s alleged ability to explain how people act and what they need. Bevir offers a vision of public administration in which ordinary people take a leading role by engaging in dialogues in which they articulate their needs. In this vision, the role of social science is to facilitate those public dialogues. This essay offers a sympathetic critical evaluation of Bevir’s exploration of what it means to understand social science as a facilitator.
AB - Mark Bevir’s A Theory of Governance proposes a Copernican revolution in the way we understand the role of social science in public administration. Conventional accounts assign social science the role of instructing public administrators how to steer its machinery towards the public interest, based on social science’s alleged ability to explain how people act and what they need. Bevir offers a vision of public administration in which ordinary people take a leading role by engaging in dialogues in which they articulate their needs. In this vision, the role of social science is to facilitate those public dialogues. This essay offers a sympathetic critical evaluation of Bevir’s exploration of what it means to understand social science as a facilitator.
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U2 - 10.1108/IJOTB-19-03-2016-B006
DO - 10.1108/IJOTB-19-03-2016-B006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84991628975
SN - 1093-4537
VL - 19
SP - 372
EP - 388
JO - International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
JF - International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
IS - 3
ER -