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Leadership in the Administrative State: The Concept of Administrative Conservatorship
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This essay provides an alternative framework for interpreting the leadership role of public administrators in governance. It is argued, contrary to the views held by a large band of public administration theorists, that leadership in the administrative state need not and should not be governed solely by the entrepreneurial leadership model. In fact, excessive entrepreneurship is seen as a threat to public institutions. An argument is presented that public administrators are engaged in a special kind of leadership called Administrative Conservatorship. Public administrators are depicted as guardians of public institutions and, in turn, regime values.
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“By linking bureaucrats ' pledge to traditional loyalty and moral principles with a duty to preserve the integrity of the political institutions and insisting on their statesmanship ' s role, Terry ' s concept of AC equips public administrators with a weighty mandate to proactively defend assaults to the democratic quality of the political system -even if these assaults originate in the government”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Terry, L. D.
- Affiliations
- Radford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Terry, Larry D.
- Venue
- Administration & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1990-02
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 395-412
- ISSN
- 0095-3997 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3039
- OpenAlex
- W2329267858
- Cited by
- 71
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 8.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Administration & Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Governance
- Keywords
- leadership, public administration, administrative state, entrepreneurial leadership, public institutions, governance
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