Positivism
The Legal History of Positivism in United States Law
This section provides an overview of Positivism in United States Law
Literature Review on (Public Administration Theory) Logical Positivism and Public Administration
In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Laurent Dobuzinskis offers the following summary about the topic of (Public Administration Theory) Logical Positivism and Public Administration: Public administration became an academic discipline as well as a recognized field of professional expertise more or less at a time when positivism was the dominant philosophy of science. It continues to cast a long shadow on the theory and the practice of public administration. The recent turn to interpretivist or even avowedly postmodern approaches as well as the current emphasis on innovation, flexibility, and public consultation have undermined the positivist foundations of public administration. However, the ongoing search for methodological rigor combined with the new public management’s emphasis on the measurement of outputs provide strong incentives to look for ways of objectively developing and implementing quantitative analytical tools; in other words, positivism continues to find committed defenders.
Positivism
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on positivism explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
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Further Reading
- The entry “positivism” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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Notes and References
- Entry about (Public Administration Theory) Logical Positivism and Public Administration in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2015, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom)
See Also
Further Reading
- Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018, Springer International Publishing, Germany)
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See Also
- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Positivism in United States Law in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Positivism in United States Law in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
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