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The document is a table of contents for a second edition publication on Public Administration, detailing various topics and contributions from different authors. It includes sections on contextual issues, knowledge, and methods in the field, along with references and an index. Key themes include the rule of law, philosophical issues, research methods, and the state of African Public Administration scholarship.

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The document is a table of contents for a second edition publication on Public Administration, detailing various topics and contributions from different authors. It includes sections on contextual issues, knowledge, and methods in the field, along with references and an index. Key themes include the rule of law, philosophical issues, research methods, and the state of African Public Administration scholarship.

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Tables and figures vi

Editors and contributors vii

Introduction to the second edition 1

n PART I: Contextual issues in Public Administration 5

1. The concept public administration JC Pauw and VN Louw 7

2. Development and state reconstruction in South Africa:


A matter of rule of law or rule by law? P Labuschagne 19

3. Philosophical issues in Management E Schwella and M Subban 34

4. Development at the dawn of the twenty-first century PDS Stewart 52

5. African Public Administration scholarship: The state of the discipline


KG Phago and XC Thani 71

n PART II: Knowledge and methods in Public Administration 89

6. On the nature of social science J Mouton 93

7. Revisiting the paradigmatic debate in South African Public Administration:


On the relevance of speaking truth to power E Schwella 106

8. Research in Public Administration JS Wessels 141

9. Research methods in Public Administration JS Wessels and XC Thani 156

10. Creative writing as qualitative research for Public Administration MH Vickers 179

11. Narrative as method AP Craig 195

12. Reading: The understanding and invention of meaning CS de Beer 207

Published online by Cambridge University Press


13. Philosophy as method JC Pauw 224

References 230

Index 251

Tables and figures

Table 2.1 Comparative scores on rule of law indicator: 2007 27

Figure 2.1 The relationship between law and order and the rule of law 28

Table 3.1 Summary of points of consensus 50

Figure 7.1 The environment of public management 119

Figure 8.1 Main categories of the social world analysed by researchers 147

Figure 8.2 A classification system for units of observation 151

Figure 8.3 Illustrated example of what is involved in researching and collecting data
on the role and functions of the PSC 152

Table 9.1 Major elements of the three paradigms in social science research 165

Table 9.2 C
 ategories of units of analysis in Public Administration research 170

Table 9.3 Units of analysis 171

Table 9.4 C
 ategories of research purposes in Public Administration research 172

Table 9.5 Research purpose of scholarly articles and doctoral theses 173

Table 9.6 A
 classification system for units of observation 174

Table 9.7 Units of observation of scholarly articles and doctoral theses 175

Table 9.8 A
 classification system for research methods 176

Table 9.9 Method of scholarly articles and doctoral theses 177

Figure 11.1 Sex of respondents 203

Table 12.1 Framework of reading modalities 220

vi ∣ Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press

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