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Bradley E. Wright
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Rethinking Public Public Administration as an Interdisciplinary Field: Assessing
Administration
as an Its Relationship with the Fields of Law, Management, and
Interdisciplinary Political Science
Field
Bradley E. Wright is an associate profes- Public administration is an interdisciplinary i eld, 2001; Moe and Gilmour 1995; Rosenbloom 2007).
sor of political science at the University of building on a variety of disciplinary approaches Others have criticized the i eld for failing to keep up
North Carolina at Charlotte. His research
focuses on how employee attitudes and and values. But how well does the i eld of public with the theoretical (Rhodes 1991; Van Wart 2003;
behavior are infl uenced by the interaction administration rel ect those values and processes? In Wright 2001) and methodological (Brower, Abolai a,
between employee characteristics and the contrast to previous arguments regarding the degree and Carr 2000; Cozetto 1994; Houston and Del-
organizational work environment. His most
recent research focuses on public service to which the i eld does or should incorporate values evan 1990, 1994; Rhodes 1991; White, Adams, and
motivation, transformational leadership, and lessons from other academic disciplines, this Forrester 1996; Wright, Manigault, and Black 2004)
and performance management. His work study provides a systematic assessment of the i eld’s approaches of relevant disciplines. While arguments
has been published in Administration
Society, American Review of Public reliance on research and theory from the i elds of law, about the relative importance or prevalence of these
Administration, Journal of Public management, and political science. An
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