Frases de Frank Johnson Goodnow

Frank Johnson Goodnow era historiador estadounidense.

✵ 18. enero 1859 – 15. noviembre 1939
Frank Johnson Goodnow Foto
Frank Johnson Goodnow: 4 citas0 Me gusta

Frank Johnson Goodnow: Frases en inglés

“The conventional model for explaining the uniqueness of American democracy is its division between executive, legislative, and judicial functions. It was the great contribution of Frank J. Goodnow to codify a less obvious, but no less profound element: the distinction between politics and policies, principles and operations. He showed how the United States went beyond a nation based on government by gentlemen and then one based on the spoils system brought about by the Jacksonian revolt against the Eastern Establishment, into a government that separated political officials from civil administrators.
Goodnow contends that the civil service reformers persuasively argued that the separation of administration from politics, far from destroying the democratic links with the people, actually served to enhance democracy. While John Rohr, in his outstanding new introduction carefully notes loopholes in the theoretical scaffold of Goodnow's argument, he is also careful to express his appreciation of the pragmatic ground for this new sense of government as needing a partnership of the elected and the appointed.
Goodnow was profoundly influenced by European currents, especially the Hegelian. As a result, the work aims at a political philosophy meant to move considerably beyond the purely pragmatic needs of government. For it was the relationships, the need for national unity in a country that was devised to account for and accommodate pluralism and diversity, that attracted Goodnow's legal background and normative impulses alike. That issues of legitimacy and power distribution were never entirely resolved by Goodnow does not alter the fact that this is perhaps the most important work, along with that of James Bryce, to emerge from this formative period to connect processes of governance with systems of democracy.”

Frank Johnson Goodnow

Abstract, 2009 edition:
Politics and Administration (1900)

Autores similares

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Foto
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn20
escritor e historiador ruso None
Max Weber Foto
Max Weber13
filósofo, economista, jurista, historiador, politólogo y so… None
Douglas Adams Foto
Douglas Adams58
escritor y humorista británico None
Ludwig von Mises Foto
Ludwig von Mises35
Economista de la escuela austriaca None
Arthur Miller Foto
Arthur Miller15
dramaturgo estadounidense None
Robert Lee Frost Foto
Robert Lee Frost19
poeta estadounidense None
Arthur Compton Foto
Arthur Compton2
Físico estadounidense None
Frank Herbert Foto
Frank Herbert8
escritor estadounidense None
Will Rogers Foto
Will Rogers17
actor estadounidense None
Groucho Marx Foto
Groucho Marx103
humorista estadounidense None