Contents

pp v-vi

Tables and figures

pp vi-vi

Editors and contributors

pp vii-viii

Introduction to the second edition

pp 1-4

PART I - Contextual issues in Public Administration

pp 5-6

1 - The concept public administration

pp 7-18

2 - Development and state reconstruction in South Africa: A matter of rule of law or rule by law?

pp 19-33

3 - Philosophical issues in Management

pp 34-51

4 - Development at the dawn of the twenty-first century

pp 52-70

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

pp 71-88

PART II - Knowledge and methods in Public Administration

pp 89-92

6 - On the nature of social science

pp 93-105

7 - Revisiting the paradigmatic debate in South African Public Administration:On the relevance of speaking truth to power

pp 106-140

8 - Research in Public Administration

pp 141-155

9 - Research methods in Public Administration

pp 156-178

10 - Creative writing as qualitative research for Public Administration

pp 179-194

11 - Narrative as method

pp 195-206

12 - Reading: The understanding and invention of meaning

pp 207-223

13 - Philosophy as method

pp 224-229

References

pp 230-250

Index

pp 251-262