A New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving in the 21st Century By Jocelyne Bourgon. Kingston: School of Policy Studies and McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. Pp. xv, 414, bibliographical references, index.

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-321
Author(s):  
Iain Gow
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
Queen's University

Of Promise and Peril: Doctoral Study in Public Administration in the 21st Century

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
John R Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Recent Graduate

The author, a recent graduate of the Doctor in Public Administration program, shares his thoughts about what it means to study public administration in the twenty-first century. He hopes his insights, born out of more than a forty year-long career in the field—decades of work in colleges and universities as a faculty member, dean, provost, vicepresident, and acting president, as well as his extensive experience in teaching public administration at the graduate and undergraduate levels—will help doctoral students in their academic pursuits. More specifically, he hopes that his remarks will make Ph.D. students think more deeply about the promise of their endeavors and, on the other hand, give them advance warning about perils of the process and ways to avoid them.

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