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The Intellectual Crisis in Public Administration in the Current Epoch of Privatization

National University of Singapore

In the current epoch, due to the worldwide movement of privatization, public administration as a field of study has come under considerable intellectual challenge. The genre of intellectual crisis created by this historical phenomenon is different from and more disparaging than the previous modes of crisis, such as the paradigm crisis and identity crisis, in the field The newly emerging intellectual crisis in public administration takes three main forms: the credibility crisis, the normative crisis, and the confidence crisis. In this article, the nature and causes of this current crisis are explicated and alternative intellectual strategies to overcome such crisis are explored

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