Critical Social Theory in Public Administration Richard C. Box (New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India, 2005)

People are often uncomfortable with critiques of the society in which they live, especially when these express concerns about specific problems such as unemployment, air pollution and corruption in the public service as well as the corporate sector. They often resist the identification of these problems as being predictable outcomes of the structure and operation of their society. This makes it more difficult to formulate broad, long-term solutions to social problems. Yet critical theory is needed in public administration now more than ever. Richard C. Box, Professor in ...