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The Phoenix Project

Raising a New Image of Public Administration from the Ashes of the Past

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Cynthia J. McSwain

George Washington University

Social theory seems to be moving toward what Charles Perrow has called the "garbage can paradigm" of deconstructionism, while at the social level, the trend seems to be toward a technicist social order of hyperrelativism. By building on the school of public administration which the article identifies as the traditionalist, the field can raise a renewed image of public administration that can serve as a protection against the potentially destructive consequences of technicism.

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