A Conservative Critique of Blacksburg Academic Article

abstract

• This article presents a conservative rejoinder to the Blacksburg perspective inviting a more discursive elaboration on the overlaps between key conservative thinkers, such as those from Michael Oakeshott, and portions of the Blacksburg view, specifically from the works of John Rohr and Charles T. Goodsell. We posit a conservative perspective that would contest three points in the Refounding texts. The article concludes by elaborating on the generative role that a discussion between the Refounders and key conservatives plays in positing new avenues for administrative theory and addressing challenges to the discretionary power of civil servants in a constitutional democracy.

authors

• Gray, Phillip

published proceedings

• ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Gray, P. W., & Mattingly-Jordan, S.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Gray, Phillip W||Mattingly-Jordan, Sara

publication date

• May 2018

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Administration and Society  Journal

keywords

• Administrative State
• Blacksburg
• Conservatism

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0095399718764327

start page

• 725

end page

• 747

volume

• 50

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399718764327