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Enhancing Professional Socialization Through the Metaphor of Tradition
challenge in a context where the principles of democracy are increasingly
expected to prevail. Therefore, traditions designed to attend to the issue of
legitimacy likely will be the most successful ones for calming public criticisms.
While I have offered one possible interpretation of the varying traditions of
public administration, for purposes of designing a curriculum, the use of the
metaphor itself is the most important and compelling thing for pedagogy.
Organizing the field’s concepts according to tradition helps students of public
administration anchor their professional identities and enhance understanding
of their own philosophical commitments and shared theoretical lineage. Thus,
they will be better prepared to weather the storms of discontent in the ongoing
crisis of democratic legitimacy.
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