- Author
- Year
- 2015
- Title
- As good as it gets? On the meaning of public value in the study of policy and management
- Journal
- The American Review of Public Administration
- Volume | Issue number
- 45 | 1
- Pages (from-to)
- 29-45
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
- Abstract
-
Public values are being promoted as a core concept in the study of public administration, in particular, in discourses surrounding Moore’s public value management and Bozeman’s public value failure. This article outlines the approaches to the concept of values and public values. Particular attention is paid to the founding distinction between facts and values, which proves to be less clear than usually assumed. After discussing a range of possible characteristics of public values, an encompassing definition is attempted, which consequently has to accommodate opposing characteristics. It is concluded that the concept of public value is a fuzzy concept, and that is probably "as good as it gets."
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.431567
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