Abstract:
The term paradigm has become a central issue in philosophy of science.
Increasing attention to paradigm in public administration, as a branch of social
science, is also highlighted. This paper attempts to analysis seven paradigms in
public administration research and to study ontological, epistemological,
methodological, rhetorical and axiological assumptions of the each paradigm.
Finally, we briefly offer some potential areas of public administration that can
be informed by seven research paradigm
Machine summary:
ir Research Paradigms in Public Administration Introduction In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to understanding how the assumptions which scientists bring to their subject of investigation guide and influence what is seen and studied (Morgan 1990, 13) because the way we think can the world is (ontology) influences: What think can be known about it (epistemology); how we think it can be investigated (methodology and research techniques); the kinds of theories we think can be constructed about it; and the political and policy stances we are prepared to take (Fleetwood 2005, 197).
J. Humanities (2012) Vol. 19 (4) and evaluation); research philosophies (positivism, interpretive social sciences aPProach, critical theory orientation, feminist perspectives, postmodern aPProach, chaos theory and complexity theory); research aPProaches, (induction, deduction and abduction), research strategies or designs (experimental strategy, correlation strategy, survey strategy, grounded theory strategy, ethnographic strategy, narrative research strategy, case study strategy, action research strategy and mixed methods strategy); Research methods (observation, questionnaire, interviews); and research objectives (exploratory, descriptive and hypothesis testing).
Complexity science constitutes an emerging interdisciplinary field of investigation into the behavior of a wide range of systems in the natural and physical worlds and indeed Research Paradigms in Public Administration in the silicon world inside computers (Casti 1997).
All are motivated by a shared Vigorous debates around feminist theories purpose: to challenge male dominance, to have been found in many disciplines since contribute to knowledge about women, and 87 Research Paradigms in Public Administration to construct a science in which gender and gender relations are seen as fully social, explanatory and important.