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Utopian/Dystopian Thought Experiments and the Potential For a New Strateb')' of Inquiry in Public Administration
| Title: | Utopian/Dystopian Thought Experiments and the Potential For a New Strateb')' of Inquiry in Public Administration. |
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| Name(s): |
Pressley, Cindy L. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Patterson, Patricia M., Thesis advisor College for Design and Social Inquiry School of Public Administration |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Created: | 2008 | |
| Date Issued: | 2008 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 228 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | The purpose behind this dissertation is the creation, development, and illustration of a new strategy of inquiry in public administration. This new strategy of inquiry is a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide its user with a way to develop a new/different viewpoint with which to examine an administrative activity. A researcher begins with an original viewpoint and should then develop a new/different viewpoint, a utopian/dystopian viewpoint, by engaging in a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment is developed in this dissertation by bringing together elements from utopian literature and scientific thought experiment literature using a public administration point of view. The research approach used in this dissertation is a three-phase process that involves reviewing and connecting pertinent literatures, using imagination and the process of writing to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment, and illustrating and examining a utopian/dystopian thought experiment in public administration. In this dissertation, I seek to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment as a new strategy of inquiry that is developed specifically for public administration. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide an additional tool to the researcher who is seeking to expand the viewpoints through which the researcher can examine administrative activities. | |
| Identifier: | FA00000610 (IID) | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): |
College for Design and Social Inquiry Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. |
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| Subject(s): |
Public administration--Philosophy Place (Philosophy) Policy sciences--Economic aspects Political planning--United States Postmodernism--Social aspects |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000610 | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
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| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
